Pakistan's First Coal Power Project Starts Functioning

[RealNapster]

That alone is the most important issue with this power plant.

I heard NEPRA reduced the tarrifs for other upcomming projects based on thar coal.

https://fp.brecorder.com/2017/07/20170729202793/

 

[VCheng]

I heard NEPRA reduced the tarrifs for other upcomming projects based on thar coal. ?

How the overall finances for the power sector are handled remains a mess and therefore crucial to fix.

 

[CrazyZ]

Power produced from thar is expensive initially.

I agree there is some added upfront cost to develop the mine but estimated generation cost for the project life was $.07 kw/h. That's less than half of what electricity from imported oil costs. If oil prices spike up it could be less then a third. Its also cheaper than the average price if electricity in India or Vietnam which is around $.08 kw/h.

 

[Paul2]

whole world is moving from coal while we are moving towards it

Have a few spare billion dollars for a nuclear plant?

 

[BATMAN]

Isn't Sahiwal coal power is the first project of the series.

 

[jamal18]

Good news. A few more of this and it will make a significant and permanent difference to the balance of payments.

The county will be more insulated against the turmoil and vaguaries of Oil.

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

https://www.dawn.com/news/1470581

Engro Powergen Thar Limited's (EPTL) lignite coal power plant in Thar has started pumping 330MW of electricity generated by domestic coal into the national grid.

The first of two 330MW units of the 660MW project located in Thar Block II was tested and energised on Monday, a press release issued by the company stated.

EPTL CEO Ahsan Zafar Syed told Reuters by telephone that the company is running the plant on 100 per cent local coal. The second 330MW unit will be connected to the national grid in April, he added.

Together, the mining and power projects managed by Engro are expected to rack up a total of $1.6 billion in foreign exchange savings a year since power will be produced using indigenous coal, the press release stated.

Construction on the country's first 660MW power plant, an early harvest China-Pakistan Economic Corridor project, commenced in April 2016. It was to begin generating 660MW of power by December 2018.

The EPTL power plant will utilise 3.8MTPA of coal supplied by Sindh Engro Coal Mining Company (SECMC) as both projects achieve their commercial operations date by June 2019.

Engro claims that once the projects are running, they will rake up an average of $1.6 billion in yearly foreign exchange savings. Post-COD, the plant is expected to transmit 660MW of electricity through a 282-km long 500 kV double circuit quad-bundle transmission line from EPTL plant to Matiari.

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

@pakistanipower @nahtanbob @gambit @vostok @500

 

[nahtanbob]

what type of coal ??

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

what type of coal ??

Lignite. Compressed peat. It's somewhat better than burning wood. They use GE's ultra supercritical boilers which has about 50% efficiency. It has pollutant filter which filters out sulfur. It is clean coal plant.

https://www.ge.com/reports/answering-pakistans-burning-question-ignite-lignite/

 

[Chakar The Great]

So so happy to hear this news.

 

[zulu]

Still trying to find its environmental study report too if anyone know kindly share the link .Allah kary sab acha hu first yeh also kekra 1 report due this month ENI rough estimation is around 1.5 billion barrel but off course its all estimation so just pray but environment is as much important due to our needs of today we cant destroy the tomorrow of coming generations

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

What's so great about coal power plant in 21st century? We should be getting away from this shit.. We are doing the opposite.

Yeah i know they produce less emissions than old generation plants but still poison is poison doesn't matter if it served in less quantity.

Coal is cheap and reliable. Solar takes up a shit amount of space for little gain. Wind is better but still, takes up too much space considering Pakistan has high population density.

 

[Peaceful Civilian]

We have large reservior of coal. We should speed up the process and make atleast 10 Power generation plants like this. Next 10 year we should be in position for 4000 MW electricity.

 

[jamal18]

Coal is cheap and reliable.

Domestic coal is free, there is only the cost of extraction. We don't pay anybody for it, and mining it creates jobs at home.

Most important no money leaves the country.