The Sahiwal 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. It has an installed capacity of 1320 MW. It commenced full operations on 3 July 2017.
The power plant is located about (12 mi) from Sahiwal and (9.3 mi) from Okara cantonment, just north of the road which connects the two towns, in Pakistan's Punjab Province.
This 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 2nd phase to include two 1,000-megawatt plants.
The plant was built by a joint consortium of China Huaneng Group which will own 51% of shares, and the Shandong Ruyi, which will hold 49% of shares. The GoP will purchase electricity from the consortium at a tariff of 8.3601 US Cents/kWh.
The project was built on a build, operate, transfer basis in which the plant's ownership will be transferred to the Government of Punjab after 30 years of operation.
The project site spans a total of 690 hectares (1,700 acres),[9] given by the Government of Punjab free of charge.[9] The project includes the construction of a railway siding from the village of Yusuf Wala to the site for exclusive use of the plant.
The plants each consist of one boiler, steam turbine and generator, and are fueled by sub-bituminous coal which will be offloaded at the project's purpose-built rail terminus.
The plants generate a total of 1,320 megawatts of electricity, with a gross efficiency of 42.11% [11] by the use of a supercritical steam generator operating at temperatures of up to 580 degrees Celsius.
The plant includes an air quality monitoring system(Flue Gas Desulfurization), and an electrostatic precipitator in order to reduce ash and sulfur emissions from the plant.
It requires 60,000 cubic meters of water daily for operation, with water being drawn from the Lower Bari Doab Canal.