Energy Projects...Updates

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Construction of Koto hydro power project (40.8MW) was started on 2 February ,2015 and schedule to be completed in 48 months i.e on 31 January,2019.

Koto hydro power project is situated on panjkora river in District Dir lower ,KPK .project area is accessible from timergara Town through the main Dir Timergara road (N45) .the road to the project site remains operational round the year .

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KUALA LUMPUR: Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) unit TNB Repair and Maintenance Sdn Bhd (TNB Remaco) has bagged a US$176mil (RM763mil) contract to operate and maintain the 1,223 MW Balloki combined-cycle power plant in Punjab, Pakistan.

The 12-year contract was awarded by the National Power Parks Management Company (Pvt) Ltd, a government-linked company of Pakistan, TNB said in a statement to Bursa Malaysia.

The contract is TNB Remaco’s largest in Pakistan and is set to broaden its presence in the country.

The company's other operation and maintenance contracts in Pakistan are for the Liberty Power Plant, Narrowal Power Plant and New Bong Escape Hydro Power Plant, it said.

The Balloki Power Plant uses General Electric’s latest gas turbine technology to fulfill the electricity demand in Pakistan, which is forecast to reach 12,300 GWh by 2020.

The contract is a new milestone for TNB Remaco as it is the largest operation and maintenance contract for a single power plant, locally and internationally, which represents a new benchmark for the unit in bidding for future contracts related to operation and maintenance, it said.

It is also in line towards achieving TNB’s aspiration to maximise revenue from non-regulated business, it added.

TNB Remaco won the contract through an international bidding exercise, and the operation and maintenance agreement was inked in Lahore, Pakistan last Friday. – Bernama

 

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1320 MW Sahiwal Coal Power will be connected to National Grid on 20th May 2017. Preparations Underway

PM Nawaz Sharif CM Punjab Shahbaz Sharif will inaugurate the Project Many Chinese Delegations will also attend the Ceremony

On Inauguration 660 MW will be added to National Grid which is going to be produced by the First Unit. 2nd Unit will also add another 660 MW in June 2017

 

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Construction work on Mohmand Dam to start in November

KARACHI: Construction work on the Mohmand Dam Hydropower Project, aimed to generate 800 megawatts of electricity, will begin in November 2017.

In this regard, the Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) has invited an Expression of Interest (EoI) from experienced consultants to undertake consultancy services for design review, construction supervision, and contract administration for the Mohmand Dam Hydropower Project. WAPDA has been entrusted with execution of the project for which the PC-I has been submitted to Ministry of Water & Power (MoW&P) for approval of ECNEC through the Planning Commission.

The Project is expected to commence from November 01, 2017 to be completed after 5 years and 8 months i.e. June 2023, along with a one year Defect Notification Period and six months for closing of the Project. Overall, completion time is 7 years and 2 months, reported WAPDA. Mohmand Dam Hydropower Project is a multipurpose facility with the objective of hydropower generation of 800 MW, flood control, irrigated agricultural development of 6,773 hectares and a drinking water supply of 13.30 cumecs to Peshawar. The dam site is located on Swat River basin, about 48 km from Peshawar in Mohmand Agency, FATA. The reservoir area of the dam extends upstream to Mohmand and Bajaur Agencies in FATA. The total length of the reservoir is about 56 km in the rocky gorge of Swat River.

The area is formed by barren and rugged hills and the command area is spread across administrative units; namely Mohmand Agency, Tehsils Shabqadar and Tangi of district Charsadda, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The total cost of the project including engineering and administrative cost, taxes, duties, interest during construction etc. is Rs 291.86 billion - Rs 224.24 billion is local funding and Rs 67.71 billion is foreign funding. The Project is proposed to be financed through 66 percent equity (WAPDA and PSDP) and 34 percent debt by Foreign Re-lent loans/ Supplier's Credit and CDL/ Local Commercial Loan.

The Dam, upon construction, will store approximately 1.3 million acre-feet of water and generate the most economical hydropower of 800 megawatts, thus helping to overcome the country's energy crisis. Additionally, the project will help irrigate nearly 17,000 acres of barren land, thus bringing a green revolution and prosperity in the area. The dam will be useful in controlling floods by averting flood damages downstream of the dam and also serve as a source of many job opportunities

 

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IFC pledges $238m for wind power in Sindh

KARACHI: The International Finance Corporation (IFC), which is a member of the World Bank Group, will provide $66 million and mobilise further $172m to build the largest wind farm in Sindh, according to a handout issued by the IFC on Friday.

The IFC will provide these funds in a landmark transaction to help build Pakistan’s largest wind power farm.

The financing to Triconboston Consulting Corporation will help construct and operate three 50-megawatt wind farms. Triconboston is majority-owned by the Sapphire Group, a leading Pakistani industrial group, with significant interests in textile and power.

The project is part of the IFC’s broader efforts to foster private participation in Pakistan’s power sector to increase investments, help diversify energy sources, cut the cost of electricity and reduce the use of polluting and expensive fossil fuels.

Pakistan suffers from frequent power cuts that cost the country an estimated two per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) every year.

“The new wind farm will generate reliable, clean energy at lower prices and help reduce pressure on the country’s power grid while mitigating climate change,” said Triconboston CEO Nadeem Abdullah.

Sapphire already commissioned its first 52.8MW wind farm in 2015.

This is the first time in Pakistan that a portfolio of three separate plants will be internationally financed by a single consortium, bringing further innovation to Pakistan’s project finance market.

The plant is expected to be fully commissioned by the end of 2018 and will make its greatest contributions during the high-demand summer months, providing clean power to about 600,000 residential customers.

“The IFC has been at the forefront of investing and mobilising financing to support private sector participation in Pakistan’s power sector,” said Mouayed Makhlouf, IFC’s director for the Middle East and North Africa region. “This is our fifth investment in wind power in the last three years in Pakistan. The project will also support Sapphire in their diversification strategy in renewables.”

The development of wind power contributes to the diversification of Pakistan’s energy generation mix by increasing capacity with shorter lead times and also helping to reduce electricity prices.

The work is part of the World Bank Group’s Pakistan Transformational Energy Initiative and Joint Implementation Plan, which aims to mobilise $10 billion in new generation investments to address the country’s acute power shortage and improve sector sustainability.

Pakistan represents IFC’s second-largest engagement in the Middle East and North Africa region, with over $5.6bn in cumulative investments committed to date.

 

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Punjab to go for another gas-fired power plant

LAHORE: Encouraged by the success of its earlier ventures in power generation, Punjab has decided to set up one more gas-fired power plant.

A meeting of the provincial cabinet approved setting up of the new 1,200MW plant in south Punjab here on Wednesday.

Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said the project was envisaged keeping in view the current energy needs of the country as well as future challenges. A suitable piece of land would be identified in Rahim Yar Khan or Muzaffargarh district.

He said the project too would be completed speedily by working day and night on it.

The cabinet also approved establishment of safe city projects in six major towns – Multan, Bahawalpur, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala and Sargodha. These projects would be implemented in phases and later on, safe city project would also be initiated in Sahiwal.

It also approved the agreement between the agriculture department and Akhuwat for providing interest-free loans to small and landless farmers. The government would set up a revolving fund with an amount of Rs2 billion for the purpose.

The meeting also approved amendments to different laws, including Punjab E-Stamp Rules 2016, Punjab Sales Tax on Services (Amended) Ordinance 2016, Fort Munro Development Act 2016 and PEEDA Act, 2016.

After amendment in the PEEDA Act, the inquiry would have to be finalised in 60 days, instead of 90 days. It will also grant retired employees right to appeal against a decision(s) taken under the law.

The meeting approved the establishment of Punjab Mental Health Authority under the Punjab Mental Health Ordinance, 2001.

It also approved minutes of proceedings of 22 to 27 meetings of Standing Committee for Finance and Development of the Cabinet.

The chief minister said the safe city project would be completed in 2018 to help eradicate terrorism and street crimes. He said no nation or society could move forward without first ensuring protection of life and property of the people.

He said launch of e-stamp papers had changed the 100-year old archaic and obsolete system and ended fraud, forgery and issuance of stamp papers in back dates.

The cabinet members greeted the CM upon getting arrears worth Rs80 billion of net hydel profit from the Centre. The province would regularly get Rs9 billion per annum under this head.

 

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Balloki Power Plant 2nd gas turbine arrived at port Qasim

 

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Payments released for adding 6,020MW

ISLAMABAD: The government is making expedited full payments to the power projects to deliver about 6,020 megawatts of additional power generation capacity to the national grid by December to announce zero loadshedding before it goes to polls next year.

The prime minister himself was keeping track of progress on about 25 small-to-large power units that authorities concerned have presented to him with timelines for completion latest by December 2017, a senior official at the PM Office told Dawn.

Mainly because of this reason, the government has released almost full amounts allocated for the power sector in the current year budget and the prime minister had made it clear to all agencies and ministries concerned to deliver on the promise, the official added.

The government had allocated Rs60 billion for two LNG-based power projects for the current year and entire amount was disbursed to the execution agencies before mid-February. Out of Rs130.4bn allocated for this year, the Planning Commission has already released Rs129.5bn as of May 10, leaving behind only Rs924 million for disbursement before the financial year ends on June 30.

Of the total targeted addition of 6,020MW, the prime minister is pushing for completion of 11 units before the end of June involving 3,242MW generation capacity. These include 760MW from Bhikki LNG project, revival of 335MW of old Guddu Thermal, 800MW from Haveli Bahadur Shah LNG project, 315MW of Chashma Nuclear, and 660MW of Sahiwal Coal plant.

Smaller Patrind Hydropower projects of 147MW, two bagasse-based projects of 41 and 36MW from Layyah Sugar Mills and Al-Moiz Industries are also targeted for completion by end-June. Likewise, a 50MW plant of Sachal Wind Energy and 100MW of United Energy Limited would also come on stream in May and June.

Another 14 units are planned to start power generation in December. However, the 969MW Neelum-Jhelum Hydropower project is not among the list of projects expected to be completed this year, the official said.

The official said two units of 400MW each from Balloki LNG project would come into production in August and September, followed by a REDSIP small hydropower project of 16MW in November. This would be followed by completion of 660MW Sahiwal Coal plant, 400MW each unit of Bhikki, Balloki and Haveli Bahadur Shah and first 660MW unit of Port Qasim Coal project of Saifur Rehman fame in December.

Among hydropower projects expected for completion in December include a 470MW unit of Tarbela 4th Extension and Golen Gol of 35MW besides renewable projects of Shahtaj Sugar, Hamza Sugar, Harrappa Solar and AJ Solar Power of capacities below 30MW each.

The official said the prime minister had made it clear to the respective agencies and their top brass that he wanted to declare an end to loadshedding by December and would not tolerate any slippages.

The official agreed that some of the projects required extensive testing before declaring their commercial operation date (COD) in legal terms before committing completion of trial runs and also in the process test sustainability of the transmission and distribution system before coming up with a fresh deadline to avoid another embarrassment.

He said most of the transmission line projects were foreign funded and the lending agencies had also disbursed their committed funds.

In a recent meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Energy, the prime minister repeatedly told the participants that he was not ready to allow an extension in the deadline for completion of important generation and transmission projects beyond December.

An official, however, explained that loadshedding would continue in some rural areas and “security-wise challenging parts” of the country on ‘high-loss-low-recovery grounds’, even though the government would officially declare no loadshedding for areas were recoveries were in ‘acceptable region’.

Minister for Water and Power Khwaja Asif had recently told the prime minister that a programme for power system constraints resolution was currently in full swing and would be completed by December.

 

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Sahiwal Coal Power Plant

Unit 1 fully operational now producing over 660 MW

Plant is operational 6 months ahead of schedule.

Unit 2 will produce another 660 MW by June 2017.

Total capacity will be 1,320 MW

 

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Government plans to add 41,000MW through hydropower by 2030

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ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly was informed on Wednesday that the government has planned to initiate several hydropower projects along River Sindh that would have a capacity of producing 41,000 megawatts (MW) of electricity by 2030.

According to Parliamentary Secretary for Planning, Development and Reform Dr Ibadullah, the projects will be completed under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor’s (CPEC) long-term plan.

During a question-hour session, Ibadullah said that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) has its due share in CPEC projects; however, if the province wanted any more projects included it could approach the federal government with a proper plan.

“At least one economic zone is being constructed in each province under CPEC and there is no discrimination being done against K-P,” he said.

Additionally, he informed three energy projects under CPEC had been shelved, including China Sunec (50MW), Salt Range Coal-based power project (300MW) and Zonergy Solar Project Bahawalpur (900MW).

He said that the road infrastructure projects were targeted to be completed by fiscal year 2018-19 and energy early harvest projects were expected to be completed by the next fiscal year, except for the hydel projects which would be completed by 2021.

He added that Gwadar and railways projects were expected to commence soon, along with industrial parks and Special Economic Zones which would be established by as per decision taken in sixth Joint Coordinating Committee on CPEC.

 

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Experts suggest green energy to overcome power crisis

KARACHI - The experts have suggested the power regulators to go for cheaper options and green energy in order to overcome the power crisis.

Addressing the 13th International Conference for Oil, Gas and Energy Industry held on the sideline of Pakistan Oil, Gas and Energy Exhibition (POGEE) 2017 here at Karachi Expo Centre, Private Power and Infrastructure Board Managing Director Shahjahan Mirza said that Pakistan has a potential of producing over 100,000MW power through clean energy due to availability of air corridors and sunlight for over 300 days a year. He hoped that the country would overcome loadshedding in coming years. He said many power plants are in the pipelines and would be commencing their generation pretty soon.

Dr Iftikhar Ahmed of Sindh Department of Alternative Energy said that the provincial government is striving to become the energy hub of Pakistan and self-sufficient in power generation. He said that Sindh has a potential of generating 55,000MW from wind energy, 10,000MW through solar power, 130MW through hydel (run of river), 1,000MW from bagasse and 500MW from solid-waste.

Regarding coal power generation, Coal Power Director Projects Ali Nawaz said that Pakistan is facing about 7,000MW shortfall and it is increasing by 7 to 8 percent per annum and will reach to over 10,000MW by 2020. He said that power generation through coal has reached to over 40 percent while it is only 0.2 percent in Pakistan.

OGRA Deputy Executive Director Sajjad Hussain, Siemens managing director, Hashim Khalid and others also spoke on the occasion. Shen Hua of MHPS DongFang Ltd, China, said that he is dealing with the visitors in a real professional environment and received may trade inquiries. Morius Bica of Kalhour, Romania said that everything satisfactory here and he was busy in getting trade inquiries from local industrialists. He said that Pakistan can acquire many power solutions in order to overcome its power crisis in real short time. He said that his company is ready to provide various solutions in alternative energy that would be cheaper and need comparatively short time to start generation.

Wang Kai of Huanyu Electric said that there are many short term solutions available in the market and the government and private sector organisations can resolve their issues individually or collectively. He advised that Pakistan people should go for cheap and green energy like solar power or wind energy as its sources are available in abundance locally. Anil Berky of Durulsan, Turkey said that trade inquirers response is satisfactory and many industrialists and individuals who got fed up with power outages are keen to adopt easy and cheaper option.

 

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Haveli Establishes New Gas Turbine Installation Record

NPPMCL achieved First Fire milestone of 2nd Gas Turbine at Haveli Bahadur Shah today at 12:06pm.

It took exactly 73 days from Gas Turbine's arrival at site to First Fire, which is 21 days less than own record of fastest installation time ever achieved for a 9HA.01 (94 days First Fire of 1st Gas Turbine at Haveli) .

This new record is exactly half the time taken by GE itself (146 days) for this machine in co-development of EDF power plant in Bouchain, France.

 

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380 MW 2nd gas plant at Haveli starts test run

LAHORE - The Second gas turbine at Haveli Bahadur Shah has started test operation to produce 380 MW.

The 1st gas turbine has already begun supplying 380 MW to the grid as per demand. After preliminary tests, the 2nd gas turbine will also start power generation commercially, adding another 380 MW to the system. National Power Parks Management Company Private Limited (NPPMCL) has achieved the first fire of 2nd gas turbine. It took 73 days from gas turbine's arrival at the site to first fire, which is 21 days less than own record of fastest installation time ever achieved for a 9HA.01 (94 days first fire of 1st gas turbine at Haveli).

This new record is exactly half the time taken by GE itself (146 days) for this machine in co-development of EDF power plant in Bouchain, France. First fire of 2nd gas turbine comes only 21 days after the first fire of 1st gas turbine which was achieved on April 28, 2017. NPPMCL officials said that it is committed to the cause of adding reliable electricity into the national grid as early as possible. Multiple teams of experts are working simultaneously round the clock on both power plants (Haveli &Balloki).