ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan government has started work on a 660 megawatt coal-fired power project at Port Qasim near the country’s largest city Karachi after unexpected delays in its flagship 6,600MW Gadani coal energy corridor project.
Informed sources said yesterday that the government had launched the new initiative after former water and power minister Haleem Siddiqui pointed out that a power plant could be immediately set up at Port Qasim where transmission lines already existed. He offered to make space for imported coal available at his jetty. The sources said Secretary of Water and Power Saifullah Chattha, who is also the managing director of the Private Power and Infrastructure Board (PPIB), and the senior executive director of the PPIB, N A Zuberi, also acting as the managing director of Gadani Power Park Management Company (GPPMC), had visited Port Qasim to assess availability of Siddiqui’s jetty. internews
