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62MW RPP starts functioning
Thursday, May 06, 2010
By Umer Bhatti
LAHORE
THE Gulf Rental Power Plant has started giving 62MW electricity to the national grid under a five years contract with the Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO) through its 15 years old diesel generating engines at a total cost of $35 million.
The PEPCO arranged a media visit to the power plant site near Eminabad, Gujranwala, on Wednesday. The Gulf Power comprises a total of seven second-hand reciprocating Diesel Generating sets out of which five come from a German Company, MAN and two from French company, SULZER. Each machine has capacity to generate 12MW gross power.
The total rental cost paid by the government would be 3.8 cents/unit and each unit of power produced from the plant would cost around Rs 15 to PEPCO.
Although, a flimsiest but a very expensive ray of hope in the current energy crunch facing the country, the plant will, however, prove worthwhile for the surrounding areas of Eminaabad, Kamonke and the industrial area of Gujranwala. The Gulf Power will run its machines either on Residual Furnace Oil (RFO) or High Speed Diesel (HSD) and there is no option of running on the gas. Naturally, the electricity produced from it will be very costly for the general consumers and they will have to pay an increased amount of money in terms of subsequent tariff increase and monthly fuel adjustment charges, which vary as the international price of oil varies.
The Gulf Rental Power Plant is one of the three rental power plants for generating 500MW of cumulative power. The other two are Alstom Power (200MW) and Independent Power (pvt) Limited (220.9MW).
This power plant has been developed by Private Power Infrastructure Board (PPIB) in collaboration with PEPCO and National Transmission and Dispatch Company of WAPDA (NTDC) according to the bidding received through International Competitive Bidding Process (ICB). The target date of commissioning the RPPs and IPPs through this bidding was during years 2009-10 and the Gulf Rental came exactly within the estimated time frame.
Talking to the media, the project director of the plant, Tahir Anwaar, said the machines, though very old, were working properly and giving generation up to the total dependable capacity.
He said the oil delivery process was finalised with Attock Petroleum Limited and the oil supply had been coming well in time since the plants working started.
He said if any fault occurred in the plant, the investor would be responsible for its fixing and expenditures.
62MW RPP starts functioning
WHAT A SHAME SO MUCH MONEY FOR OLD SECOND HAND RPP which will vary each month due to oil rates in the international market i smell KICKBACKS!
Thursday, May 06, 2010
By Umer Bhatti
LAHORE
THE Gulf Rental Power Plant has started giving 62MW electricity to the national grid under a five years contract with the Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO) through its 15 years old diesel generating engines at a total cost of $35 million.
The PEPCO arranged a media visit to the power plant site near Eminabad, Gujranwala, on Wednesday. The Gulf Power comprises a total of seven second-hand reciprocating Diesel Generating sets out of which five come from a German Company, MAN and two from French company, SULZER. Each machine has capacity to generate 12MW gross power.
The total rental cost paid by the government would be 3.8 cents/unit and each unit of power produced from the plant would cost around Rs 15 to PEPCO.
Although, a flimsiest but a very expensive ray of hope in the current energy crunch facing the country, the plant will, however, prove worthwhile for the surrounding areas of Eminaabad, Kamonke and the industrial area of Gujranwala. The Gulf Power will run its machines either on Residual Furnace Oil (RFO) or High Speed Diesel (HSD) and there is no option of running on the gas. Naturally, the electricity produced from it will be very costly for the general consumers and they will have to pay an increased amount of money in terms of subsequent tariff increase and monthly fuel adjustment charges, which vary as the international price of oil varies.
The Gulf Rental Power Plant is one of the three rental power plants for generating 500MW of cumulative power. The other two are Alstom Power (200MW) and Independent Power (pvt) Limited (220.9MW).
This power plant has been developed by Private Power Infrastructure Board (PPIB) in collaboration with PEPCO and National Transmission and Dispatch Company of WAPDA (NTDC) according to the bidding received through International Competitive Bidding Process (ICB). The target date of commissioning the RPPs and IPPs through this bidding was during years 2009-10 and the Gulf Rental came exactly within the estimated time frame.
Talking to the media, the project director of the plant, Tahir Anwaar, said the machines, though very old, were working properly and giving generation up to the total dependable capacity.
He said the oil delivery process was finalised with Attock Petroleum Limited and the oil supply had been coming well in time since the plants working started.
He said if any fault occurred in the plant, the investor would be responsible for its fixing and expenditures.
62MW RPP starts functioning
WHAT A SHAME SO MUCH MONEY FOR OLD SECOND HAND RPP which will vary each month due to oil rates in the international market i smell KICKBACKS!
