THAR – Electricity generation has started from Thar Coal and one power plant of 330 megawatts at Thar Coal Block-II and is being added to the national grid, the Radio Pakistan reported.
Sindh Engro Coal Mining Company (SECMC) spokesperson hailed the development as historic and said that initially 330MW will be produced and distributed to the national grid, adding that the production of electricity will be done in stages.
Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah congratulated the start of the project.
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Chief Executive Officer of Engropowergen Thar limited SM Zafar Syed in an interview told our Karachi correspondent Altaf Pirzado that another power plant of 330 megawatts will also start producing electricity from next month.
He said Thar Coal Block-II has the capacity of producing five thousand megawatts of electricity which will be available on low rates.
He said commercial use of the electricity being produced from Thar Coal will start in June this year.
Thar coalfields were discovered in 1991, containing the world’s seventh largest coal reserves of 175 billion tonnes, more than the combined oil reserves of Saudi Arabia and Iran, and 68 times higher than Pakistan’s total gas reserves.
