Sahiwal Power Plant hosts multiple sports games to celebrate CPEC’s 10th anniversary

Sahiwal: Sahiwal Power Plant Wednesday hosted multiple sports games for celebrating the 10th anniversary of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).

The employees both from China and Pakistan showed their talent and strengthened the connection by friendly competition to celebrate the CPEC Decade.

Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng earlier concluded his three-day visit to Pakistan. He Lifeng met with Pakistani President Arif Alvi and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.

He also attended celebrations for the 10-year anniversary of the CPEC. In honour of the anniversary and He Lifeng’s visit, schools, private companies and banks were shut on Monday and Tuesday.

The Sahiwal Coal Power Project is a coal power plant project located in the province of Punjab in Pakistan by the name of Huaneng Shandong Ruyi (Pakistan) Energy (Limited). It has an installed capacity of 1320 MW. It commenced full operations on 3 July 2017.

The power plant is Pakistan’s first supercritical coal power plant, and consists of two 660-megawatt (890,000 hp) plants for a combined capacity of 1,320 MW.

This is the first phase, and may be followed by a possible second phase which will include two 1,000-megawatt (1,300,000 hp) plants.

Though the plant is now considered to be part of the CPEC which was announced in April 2015, the symbolic ground breaking for the project actually preceded the announcement of CPEC and took place in May 2014, as the government of Punjab in March 2014 invited bids for the construction of two 660MW power plants in order to help alleviate Pakistan’s energy shortfalls.

The plant was built by a joint consortium of China’s state-owned China Huaneng Group which owns 51% of shares, and the Shandong Ruyi, which holds 49% of shares.