Sahiwal: PM Nawaz Sharif reaches Sahiwal for Reviewing the progress on Coal Power Plant project. This project is opted with the help of Chinese companies building the 1,320 MW Sahiwal coal-fired power plant. This is the first-ever project in Pakistan, power generation from this project is expected to start next year. It will be the ‘cheapest’ in terms of tariff and Eco-friendliness. Around three thousand workers, including thousand Chinese, are working at the site which is guarded by police personnel
The consortium of two Chinese companies which started work on June 9, 2015, is raising basic infrastructure at over a thousand acre land reserved for the plant with an official target of completing it by Dec 25, 2017, officials say the provincial chief executive wants it to be completed much earlier.
The visit of PM Nawaz Sharif shows a sign of commitment regarding this coal project. As many in Pakistan already argued on various platforms that why cannot we generate power via coal? This seems to be a move in correct direction.