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The Quaid-e-Azam Solar Power Park is a $130 million project on nearly 500 acres of land in the Cholistan desert in Punjab. When the entire project is complete in 2017, the site could have 5.2 million photovoltaic cells, “producing as much as 1,000 MW of electricity—and enough to power about 320,000 households,”. The area’s 13 hours of daily sunlight and its flat expanse of desert make it ideal for a solar farm. “The solar park will also shrink Pakistan’s carbon footprint,” according to Najam Ahmed Shah, the chief executive of the solar park, “displacing about 57,500 tonnes of coal burn and reducing emissions by 90,750 tonnes every year.”