1,000 megawatts of appetite to be generated by K-P

As many as 5 some-more projects in a pipeline, detached from existent ones. PHOTO: AFP

As many as 5 some-more projects in a pipeline, detached from existent ones. PHOTO: AFP

PESHAWAR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa appetite and appetite dialect claimed it will beget adult to 1,000 megawatts of appetite in a entrance 3 to 4 years by completing hydel appetite projects and a 100 megawatts solar appetite project.

Minister for Energy and Power Atif Khan and Pakhtunkhwa Energy Development Organization (PEDO) Chief Executive Akbar Ayub, lecture reporters on Monday during a internal hotel, pronounced authorities had finished 3 hydel appetite projects providing 57 megawatts of appetite to a inhabitant grid.

At a same time, 5 some-more projects generating an estimated 214 megawatts, would be finished by 2019.

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The 57 megawatt plan was started by a prior government, though finished by a stream regime, he stated. “The 214 megawatts projects started in a stream government,” he added.

Atif went on to contend that a dialect designed 21 prolonged tenure projects that would beget 3,631 megawatts appetite and would cost around $12 billion.

Since a supervision does not have adequate supports to financial these projects, it is perplexing to move in private investors for a execution.

Ayub, meanwhile, pronounced that a feasibility investigate of 18 projects had been finished and a supervision floated general tenders for 6 projects to entice private investors.

“We have perceived a sum 56 proposals for 6 projects from obvious companies,” Ayub said.

He combined a projects were during a prequalification theatre and would beget 666 megawatts of electricity. Investment in them will be $11.9 billion.

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“It a initial time a story of a range that investment of this turn is entrance in,” he claimed.

Ayub settled a dialect was operative on solar appetite plan to will beget 100 megawatts and a feasibility investigate is underneath way. “We will collectively beget a sum of 1,000 megawatts,” he said.

He pronounced of a sum 356 mini micro hydel appetite projects, 53 have been finished and a dialect is now going to erect 1,000 mini micro hydel appetite projects opposite a province.

He pronounced authorities are in traffic with a Asian Development Bank to sponsoring a mega plan of 300 megawatts.

The PEDO CEO pronounced a mini micro hydel appetite projects on canals in executive K-P would get operational over a subsequent 6 months.

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