The government is utilizing all its resources
for power generation in order to eliminate curse of load-shedding by
2018. This was stated by the Ch. Abid Sher Ali, Minister of State for
Water and Power in briefing today at Private Power and Infrastructure
Board, Islamabad.
The Managing Director PPIB Mr. Shah Jahan Mirza explained that currently
power from private sector in Pakistan constitutes around 47% of the
total installed capacity and due to efforts by PPIB, 31 IPPs of 9048 MW
are currently supplying power to the National Grid. He briefed on the
projects presently being processed by PPIB and their various stages of
development. He briefed that currently PPIB is processing 29 projects
with the capacity of 17550 MW which will be coming online during
2017–2024. As per commitment of the present government, projects are now
being processed on cheaper fuels like Hydro, Coal and RLNG.
From portfolio of PPIB projects, 16 Hydel projects of 6400 MW are under
various stages of processing. Similarly 9 projects of 7400 MW based on
coal and 3750 MW projects based on gas/RLNG are in the PPIB portfolio of
projects. It was briefed that PPIB is expediting the projects and
facilitating the projects sponsors to bring their projects on line by
2018. It is expected that the national grid will have around 7500 MW
from the private sector by 2018.
The government has announced Transmission Line Policy in 2015 under
which PPIB has been given responsibility to process transmission line
projects in IPP mode. Under this policy, PPIB has started process of
660kV HVDC Transmission Line from Matiari to Lahore in IPP mode which
will facilitate transmission of power from southern part of the country
to the north.
The State Minister highly appreciated the work of PPIB and its mode of
working. He felicitated PPIB for its contribution made so far in
augmenting the power sector of Pakistan, as well as the present efforts
to facilitate in getting rid of the menace of forced power cuts.
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