International awards, competition wins, media coverage and collaborative breakthroughs from the Power Systems Research Lab.
ENENT, a startup founded by a team of electrical engineering graduates from the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) in Karachi, developed a device to reduce electricity use at home by 20%. The device, patented as the Intellica Three-Phase Load Balancer, was one of the winners of the 2020 UN Asia-Pacific Low Carbon Lifestyles Challenge in May 2020.
Young engineers from Karachi say their award-winning invention will help cut Pakistan’s carbon footprint and reduce electricity consumption in homes by up to 20 percent. Patented as the Intellica Three-Phase Load Balancer, the device was one of nine winners of the 2020 Asia-Pacific Low Carbon Lifestyles Challenge organized by the United Nations Environment Programme in May 2020.
Mr Danish Ahmad, Mr Muhammad Mughal and Ms Zenab Junaid represented Pakistan in Malaysia, competing in the HILTI IT Competition 2018 as team ‘The Automatons’ from 26–29 March 2018. Among 600+ teams, the PNEC team made it to the top finalists with an industrial model application of the project ‘Sensorless Machine Control’ under Capt. Sajjad Haider Zaidi.
The project was led by Capt. Dr. Sajjad Haider Zaidi PN, with group members Sheikh Talha, Shahyan Adil, Shariq Waqar and M. Talha Javaid. The title of the winning research paper and project was ‘Development and Designing of Algorithm for Intrusive Fault Analysis of Electrical Machines using FPGA’.
Sajjad Zaidi, a professor of engineering at the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), worked with student scholars in the U.S.-Pakistan Centers for Advanced Studies in Energy (USPCAS-E) to develop a home-grown AMI solution. Also known as smart metering, AMI provides the backbone for the power grid of the future.
Tackling the energy problem is the first step to strengthening the economy. Pakistan has taken clear steps such as developing its renewable resources and tapping its coal reserves, helping expand and diversify where and how it generates electricity. Further harnessing these resources will help alleviate the electricity shortfall.