156 megawatts Morgah power project to start in October

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156 megawatts Morgah power project to start in October
ISLAMABAD (January 02 2008): Construction of five thermal power projects of 1200 MW power capacity, already approved by PPIB will be completed in 2008-2009. Attock General Limited of 156 MW is one of these plants, which is scheduled to be commissioned in October 2008 and other four plants will be commissioned during last three months of 2008.

These observations were made by caretaker Federal Minister for Water and Power, Tariq Hamid during a visit of the site of the under construction plant of Attock General Limited on Tuesday.

The minister expressed the hope that after 15th January 2008, the situation would become better as water to Punjab and Sindh would be released and gas supply to the power plant, would be increased which would indeed generate more electricity enabling Wapda to avert the load management in the country.

Minister for water and power along with representatives of PPIB visited 156 MW Attock General project at Morgah, Rawalpindi. He appreciated the efforts made by Attock General Limited in developing project in private sector, which is scheduled to be commissioned in October 2008.

Adil Khattak, Chief Executive, Attock General Limited along with his team received the minister at the project site. Khattak informed the minister that company would try to ensure timely completion of the project to meet the power shortage.

Chief Executive Attock Refinery Limited (ARL) made a brief presentation, highlighting the salient features of the project. The project has a capacity of 156 MW for which all agreements have been concluded. The project will cost 148.6 million dollars.

The chief executive apprised the minister that the project will get uninterrupted fuel supply from Attock Refinery through a dedicated pipeline. It is the first IPP in north of Lahore and it will increase the reliability in Iesco area, he added. -PR

Copyright Business Recorder, 2008](javascript:void(0)) http://www.brecorder.com/index.php?id=671594&currPageNo=1&query=&search=&term=&supDate= ----------------------------------------------------------- this is excellent news, we are now seeing more and more investments pouring into the power sector to get rid of power problems, once again thanks to musharraf and may pakistans economy continue booming

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Re: 156 megawatts Morgah power project to start in October

even more, projects, wonderfull

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'2,700 megawatts additional power to be generated in three years'
**ISLAMABAD (December 24 2007): Caretaker Minister for Water and Power, Tariq Hameed has said that 2,700 MW additional power will be generated in coming three years with the completion of Private Power Infrastructure Board's (PPIB) projects.**

Talking to APP, the minister said PPIB had been directed to remove bottlenecks in small hydel projects having capacity of 100 MW to 200 MW to bridge the power demand and supply gap.

*He said to overcome load-shedding problem besides starting effective management Wapda will get one rental plant while two rental plants have already been inaugurated having total capacity of 286 MW. He added that 150 MW power will be produced by 2008 through windmills while 600 houses have been provided solar energy in all the four provinces. He said that Wapda has planned to start new power plant at Guddu to improve additional power upto 800 MW during 2008-09.
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Tariq Hameed said Mangla raising project will be completed by June next and its filling will be in next summer due to which capacity generation will increase to estimated 180 MW.

He said development work has been started on Jinnah hydel project at Jinnah Barrage by Wapda to generate 94 MW electricity to be completed in 2010.

Hameed said the ministry had planned to purchase 100,000 energy saver bulbs to be distributed in hospitals, educational institutions and other government offices to help save energy.

He said these saver bulbs would also be placed at Utility Stores, as it saves 80 percent energy than other bulbs. He added the decision of closing shops at 8:00 pm has helped save 300 MW electricity.

He said that all mega power projects would be completed by 2016 including Basha-Diamer, Kalabagh, Akora, Munda and Kurram-Tungi to further generate 9,000 MW electricity in the country.
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He said electricity demand would also be met through small and medium power generation projects under public-private partnership. Hameed said that a comprehensive strategy is being chalked out for utilisation of coal in power generation to balance the supply and demand of electricity.
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The minister said study on Kalabagh Dam has been completed while engineering work of Basha-Diamer Dam will be completed by the end of 2008.

He said the contract award of the project is likely in 2009 while deadline of 2016 has been fixed for its completion. He added that private sector will complete Munda Dam while pending work of Khuram-Tungi will be started within three months.
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I hope this helps the whole load shedding situation. It's sad knowing that the country has nukes but lacks the basic needs such as consistant flow of electricity.

Thanks for the share pal.

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bhai Suhaib, why dont you open a single thread for all these power generation projects. So that we can praise the MUSH govt and you for the effort.

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Re: 156 megawatts Morgah power project to start in October

well if people can open 100 different topics on load shedding why not different ones on power projects