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Image used for illustrative purpose. A general view shows Central Electricity Generating Co., Hussein Thermal Power Station in the city of Zarqa, 25 km (15 miles) northeast of Amman April 2, 2013. Muhammad Hamed, Reuters
China’s power company Shanghai Electric Group Company announced on Monday that the Thar Block-1 integrated coal mine and power project (Thar Project) in Pakistan officially entered commercial operation on 5 February 2023.
The thermal power project’s two 660-megawatt (MW) supercritical units passed the reliability run test successfully after 168 hours of full-load operation, the Shanghai-listed firm said in a statement.
The Thar Project will deliver about nine billion kilowatt-hours of electricity to the local grid annually, fulfilling the power demands of nearly four million households.
The project is Shanghai Electric’s first Build-Own-Operate (BOO) project, developed, constructed and operated with a total investment of nearly $3 billion, said Donghai Meng, Director CEO of Thar Coal Block-I Power Generation.
Construction of the project began in March 2019.
The statement said the plant has a total capacity of 1,320 MW and is supported by an open-pit coal mine that produces 7.8 million tons of lignite (brown coal) annually.
(Writing by P Deol; Editing by Anoop Menon)