{"id":752,"date":"2026-08-03T11:33:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T11:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faroukgongee.com\/?p=752"},"modified":"2026-08-07T14:55:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T14:55:17","slug":"in-the-thar-desert-pakistan-proves-its-indigenous-coal-can-be-a-reliable-power-resource","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.faroukgongee.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/03\/in-the-thar-desert-pakistan-proves-its-indigenous-coal-can-be-a-reliable-power-resource\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Thar Desert, Pakistan Proves Its Indigenous Coal Can Be a Reliable Power Resource"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Engro Powergen Thar Limited turned an untapped desert coalfield into Pakistan\u2019s cheapest power\u2014and a template for energy independence. Pakistan entered the second half of the 2010s in chronic power<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\/in-the-thar-desert-pakistan-proves-its-indigenous-coal-can-be-a-reliable-power-resource\/\">In the Thar Desert, Pakistan Proves Its Indigenous Coal Can Be a Reliable Power Resource<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.powermag.com\">POWER Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"Splash-EPTL-Engro-coal-power-plant_c\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.faroukgongee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/splash-eptl-engro-coal-power-plant-c.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engro Powergen Thar Limited turned an untapped desert coalfield into Pakistan\u2019s cheapest power\u2014and a template&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-connected-plant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faroukgongee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faroukgongee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faroukgongee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faroukgongee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faroukgongee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.faroukgongee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755,"href":"http:\/\/www.faroukgongee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions\/755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faroukgongee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faroukgongee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faroukgongee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faroukgongee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}