A Decision That Cost $2.56 Billion
By Qamar Bashir I vividly recall that the decision to use imported coal in Sahiwal power plant was made as part of the agreements under CPEC. The project was initially agreed upon in 2013 during the visit of the then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to China, where various energy projects, including the Sahiwal plant, were included in the CPEC framework. The construction began in 2015 and it started production in May 2017 with a total capacity of 1,320 MW incurring a cost of $1.8 billion. Being one of the most efficient plants, its levelized tariff (the average cost over theRead More
