Shanghai Thar Coal Power Project starts generating 2640MW electricity: Dastgir

Islamabad: Minister for Power Engineer Khurram Dastgir says Shanghai Thar Coal Power Project has started generating 2640 Megawatt electricity utilizing the local fuel, which will not only control the load-shedding, but also help in reducing the electricity prices.

Addressing a news conference in Islamabad on Tuesday, he said the PDM government, under the leadership of Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, made hectic efforts to produce electricity using local fuel and succeeded to add 1980 Megawatts electricity from Thar Coal in the system during the past ten months.

Khurram Dastgir said Thar Coal have 175 tonnes of reserves which is sufficient to generate one hundred thousand megawatts of electricity.