In his address earlier, Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah said the coal power project was an achievement at par with Pakistan’s nuclear tests. Pakistan to start producing power from Thar coal in few daysCommercial operations are expected to formally commence from June, he said. The project director said that once the project would achieve its full capacity, it would consume 12,000 tonnes per day of coal extracted from the coal mine of Thar Block-II. Pasha said the coal mine of Thar Block-II tapped into just 1% of the massive Thar coal reserves of 175 billion tonnes, which was “enough to generate electricity for the next 50 years”. In the second phase of Thar Coal Block-II project, two other companies – Thar Energy Limited (TEL) and ThalNova – will each set up 330MW power plants by 2021.

Source: The Express Tribune April 10, 2019 07:58 UTC