Energy Projects...Updates

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Germany to help Pakistan increase renewable energy share

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Germany have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for establishing a renewable energy platform which is expected to solidify Islamabad’s efforts aimed at capitalising on the available potential for clean and green energy.

Federal Minister for Energy Syed Ali Zafar, German Ambassador Martin Kobler and Power Division Secretary Rizwan Memon were present on the occasion.

Highlighting its importance, the energy minister said, “this Renewable Energy Forum will serve as a hub for renewable energy and energy-efficient business networking, customer outreach and business development in Pakistan and Germany.”
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Global consultant backed ETPL’s bid for LNG terminal

ISLAMABAD: Inter State Gas Systems (ISGS) has insisted that the financial bid submitted by Elengy Terminal Pakistan Limited (ETPL) had been endorsed by an international consultant and was found to be in compliance with the Request for Proposal (RFP) for building the first liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in the country.

In response to a petition filed in the Supreme Court, ISGS – a company set up by the government to handle gas import projects – said QED Consulting had also apprised that there was no condition attached to the ETPL’s price proposal.

The consultant explained that in order to provide with an independent analysis of ETPL’s price proposal, it had undertaken comparisons.

 

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The third unit of Golen Gol Hydropower Project in district Chitral will start functioning from next month.
Project Director Golen Gol Hydropower Project, Muhammad Javed Afridi said the project will be completed at a cost of about thirty billion rupees.

 

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Pakistan all set to produce electricity from Thar coal

Pakistan is all set to produce electricity from Thar coal later this year, decades after it discovered one of the largest reserves in the world.

Geo TV on Thursday reported that the transmission line has been completed to supply electricity to national grid.

The channel reported that RO (Reverse Osmosis) plants and other machines are still being run on electricity provided by the Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA). But, It said from December electricity generation would begin from coal in Thar .

Quoting chairman of the Sindh Engro Coal Mining Company, the TV reported that coal mining is underway at the depth of 160 meters in Thar.

660 megawatt electricity is expected to be generated from December.

The coal deposits—16th-largest coal reserves in the world, were discovered in 1991 by Geological Survey of Pakistan (GSP) and the United States Agency for International Development.

The Thar coalfield is located in Thar Desert, Tharparkar District of Sindh

 

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Karot hydropower station likely to be completed by 2021

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Work on the 720 Megawatt Karot Hydropower Station has been going on smoothly and it is likely that the project would be completed by the end of 2021.

The project, which is a part of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), is to be completed at a cost of US$1420 million. According to official sources, the land acquisition award had already been done and the financials of the project were achieved on February 2, 2017.

The 25 per cent civil work of the project has been completed as construction of access road/bridge, concrete batching plant, diversion tunnel and spillway is in process. The project is located at River Jhelum in Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab.

It is the fourth among the five cascade hydropower projects being developed along the Jhelum River. Sources added that its structure layout includes rock-fill dam, spillway, powerhouse, diversion tunnels, head race power tunnels and tail race tunnel.

The project was being developed on Build-Own-Operate-Transfer basis with five years construction period and 30 years concession period. Karot Hydropower Project, executed by Karot Power Company (Pvt.) Limited, has been listed as one of the prioritized projects under the CPEC.

The project’s main sponsor, China Three Gorges (CTG) South Asia Investment Limited, is an investment arm of CTG Corporation in South Asia, the sources added. The construction of the project has also provided employment to more than 2,000 people.

 

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Kurram Tangi Dam --- 83 MW

Concrete on gallery flooring was done yesterday, it was a huge concrete activity of about 634 cubic meters, finished in 26 hours.

 

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Gulpur Hydropower Plant (GHPP) .. 102 MW is an under construction, run-of-the-river hydroelectric generation project located on Poonch River, a major tributary of Jhelum River near Gulpur in Kotli District of AK.

 

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Neelum-Jhelum Hydropower Project attains full generation capacity of 969MW.

The strategically crucial Neelum-Jhelum Hydropower Project achieved a historic landmark, as the project attained its maximum generation capacity of 969 megawatts (MW) on Tuesday. All units of the project are generating power to their maximum capacity.

Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) Chairman Lieutenant General Muzammil Hussain (retired) congratulated the project’s management, engineers and other employees on the achievement.

The hydropower project has four generating units, each of them with a generation capacity of 242.25 MW. The first unit was commissioned in April this year, followed by the remaining three units coming into operation, each after one month’s interval.

The fourth and last unit was synchronised with the national grid on Monday and attained its maximum generation capacity on August 14, 2018.

Neelum Jhelum Project’s power contribution doubles

Neelum-Jhelum is a state-of-the-art hydropower project, with 90% of it being underground and beneath the high mountainous areas.

The project, constructed on river Neelum in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, has a dam at Nauseri, an underground waterway system, consisting of 52-kilometre (KM) long tunnels and an underground powerhouse at Chattar Kalas with four power generating units.

The project will provide about 5 billion units of electricity to the national grid every year, with annual estimated benefits of Rs55 billion

 

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Powerhouse Generator Level where all 04 Units have dome lights on - all units generating electricity.

Neelum-Jhelum Hydropower Project attains full generation capacity of 969MW.

 

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106 MW Golen Gol Hydropower Plant Chitral Transmission Line under Construction.Tower Erection by NETRACON in Lower Dir.

 

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The pressure vessel installed at second Pakistani Hualong One Nuclear Power Plant.

.Karachi 2 and 3 are the first export of China's Hualong One pressurised water reactor design, with construction of unit 2 beginning in 2015 and unit 3 in 2016. The units are scheduled for commercial operation in 2021 and 2022,

 

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Karot Hydropower Project | 720 MW
Updates 7/9/2018.

Water direction changed. Now flowing through diversion tunnels.

 

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1320 MW Port Qasim Power plant and K- electric plant operational in full operation capacity

 

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Karora Hydropower Project (11.8 MW)

The project is under construction and has been conceived as a run of river scheme on Khan Khwar in Shangla District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Jabori Hydropower Project (10.2 MW)

The project is under construction and is located on Saran River, a tributary of Indus River near Jabori Village, District Mansehra, KP.

 

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Karora Hydropower Project (11.8 MW)

The project is under construction and has been conceived as a run of river scheme on Khan Khwar in Shangla District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

 

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Jabori Hydropower Project (10.2 MW)

The project is under construction and is located on Saran River, a tributary of Indus River near Jabori Village, District Mansehra, KP.