{"id":469,"date":"2012-11-23T11:22:28","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T10:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/?p=469"},"modified":"2018-05-02T16:48:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T14:48:48","slug":"large-scale-biogas-plant-planned-in-pakistans-dairy-area-with-support-by-ifc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/large-scale-biogas-plant-planned-in-pakistans-dairy-area-with-support-by-ifc\/","title":{"rendered":"Large-scale biogas plant planned in Pakistan\u2019s dairy area with support by IFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/biogas-plant_reduced.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-470\" title=\"biogas plant_reduced\" src=\"http:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/biogas-plant_reduced-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/biogas-plant_reduced-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/biogas-plant_reduced.jpg 392w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>On 14 November the <a title=\"IFC\" href=\"http:\/\/www1.ifc.org\/wps\/wcm\/connect\/corp_ext_content\/ifc_external_corporate_site\/home\" target=\"_blank\">International Finance Corporation<\/a> of the World Bank (IFC) announced its support to the development of a waste to energy biogas project in the area of Karachi, Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The project envisages the implementation of a 22 MW biogas plant using cow manure that is currently discharged directly into the sea, thus turning a serious environmental problem into an effective resource for the production of energy and stimulation of local economic growth. The plant will be built by Karachi Organic Energy (KOEL), a joint-venture between Karachi Electric Supply and Amman Foundation and will benefit of advice on project development and financing by IFC.<\/p>\n<p>The plant will be the largest biogas project in the country and represents IFC\u2019s first initiative in clean energy advisory services projects in the Middle East and North Africa<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IFC press release\" href=\"http:\/\/www1.ifc.org\/wps\/wcm\/connect\/topics_ext_content\/ifc_external_corporate_site\/cb_home\/news\/feature_biogas_nov2012\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 14 November the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank (IFC) announced its support to the development of a waste to energy biogas project in the area of Karachi,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,23,14,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1318,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/1318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}