ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The Sahiwal Coal Power Project will start producing 660 megawatts electricity from Thursday (May 25, 2017) from its first plant established 15 kilometers (9.3 mi) to the northeast of Sahiwal, Punjab.
The power plant will be Pakistan’s first supercritical coal power plant, and will consist of two 660-megawatt (890,000 hp) plants for a combined capacity of 1,320 MW in the first phase, and is to be followed by a possible second phase which will include two 1,000-megawatt (1,300,000 hp) plants.
The plant is being constructed by a joint consortium of China’s state-owned Huaneng Shandong which will own 51 percent of shares, and the Shandong Ruyi Science & Technology Group which will hold 49 percent of shares.
The government of Pakistan will purchase electricity from the consortium at a tariff of 8.3601 US Cents/kWh.
The project will be built on a build, operate, transfer basis in which the plant’s ownership will be transferred to the government of Punjab after 30 years of operation.
