Mon, 05, 21
Energy is one of the key components of the programme being implemented under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) framework. In the first phase of materialisation ie from 2015 to 2020, the portfolio of power generation consists of 19 projects of cumulative installed capacity of about 12,000MW, which works out to nearly half of the size of Pakistan’s installed power generating capacity in July 2015 from all type of energy resources. These projects include 4,260MW thermal power plants based on imported coal, 3,960MW power projects utilising the indigenous Thar coal, and 3,391MW hydropower projects, besides small capacity windfarms (298MW) and solar energy (100MW).