Electricity Sector in Pakistan - Installed Capacity

Installed Capacity

  • Electricity – total installed capacity: 21,103 MW (2012)
  • Electricity – Sources (2012)
    • fossil fuel – 13,637 MW – 65% of total
    • hydro – 6,654 MW – 31% of total
    • nuclear – 812 MW – 4% of total

There are four major power producers in country: WAPDA (Water & Power Development Authority), KESC (Karachi Electric Supply Company), IPPs (Independent Power Producers) and PAEC (Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission).

The break-up of the installed capacity of each of these power producers (as of Jan-2012) is as follows:

WAPDA Hydel

  • Tarbela 3478 MW
  • Mangla 1000 MW
  • Ghazi – Barotha 1450 MW
  • Warsak 243 MW
  • Chashma 184 MW
  • Dargai 20 MW
  • Rasul 22 MW
  • Shadi-Waal 18 MW
  • Nandi pur 14 MW
  • Kurram Garhi 4 MW
  • Renala 1 MW
  • Chitral 1 MW
  • Jagran (AK) 30 MW
  • Khankhwar 72 MW
  • AllaiKhwar 121 MW
  • Total Hydel 6,654 MW

WAPDA Thermal

  • Gas Turbine Power Station, Shahdra 59 MW
  • Steam Power Station, Faisalabad 132 MW
  • Gas Turbine Power Station, Faisalabad 244 MW
  • Gas Power Station, Multan 195 MW
  • Thermal Power Station, Muzaffargarh 1350 MW
  • Thermal Power Station, Guddu 1655 MW
  • Gas Turbine Power Station, Kotri 174 MW
  • Thermal Power Station, Jamshoro 850 MW
  • Thermal Power Station, Larkana 150 MW
  • Thermal Power Station, Quetta 35 MW
  • Gas Turbine Power Station, Panjgur 39 MW
  • Thermal Power Station, Pasni 17 MW
  • Total Thermal 4811 MW

WAPDA’s total hydel and thermal capacity is 11,272 MW. Hydel electricity generated by WAPDA varies between two extremities, i.e., between minimum of 2,414 MW and maximum of 6,761 MW depending upon the river flow.

Karachi Electric Supply Company

  • Thermal Power Station, Korangi 316 MW
  • Gas Turbine Power Station, Korangi 80 MW
  • Gas Turbine Power Station, SITE 100 MW
  • Thermal Power Station, Bin Qasim 1260 MW

KESC total generation capacity is 1756 MW.

Independent Power Producers (IPPs)

  • Hub Power Project 1292 MW
  • AES Lalpir Ltd, Mahmood Kot Muzaffargar 362 MW
  • AES Pak Gen, Mahmood Kot Muzaffargar 365 MW
  • Altern Energy Ltd, Attock 29 MW
  • Fauji Kabirwala Power Company, Khanewal 157 MW
  • Gul Ahmad Energy Ltd, Korangi 136 MW
  • Habibullah Coastal Power Limited 140 MW
  • Japan Power Generation, Lahore 120 MW
  • Kohenoor Energy Limited, Lahore 131 MW
  • Liberty Power Limited, Ghotki 232 MW
  • Rousch Power, Khanewal 412 MW
  • Saba Power Company, Sheikhupura 114 MW
  • Southern Electric Power Company Limited, Raiwind 110 MW
  • Tapal Energy Limited, Karachi 126 MW
  • Uch Power Limited, Dera Murad Jamali, Nasirabad 586 MW
  • Attock Gen Limited, Morgah Rawalpindi 165 MW
  • Atlas Power, Sheikhupura 225 MW
  • Engro Energy Limited, Karachi —– MW
  • Kot Addu Power Company Limited (Privatized) 1638 MW
  • Saif Power Plant Qadirabad, Sahiwal 225 MW
  • Sitara Energy 80 MW
  • Nishat Chunian Power 200 MW
  • Nishat Power Limited 200 MW

Total generation capacity of IPPs is 7070 MW.

Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission

  • KANUPP 137 MW
  • CHASNUPP-1 325 MW
  • CHASNUPP-2 340 MW
  • KHUSHAB 50 MW

Total electricity generated from PAEC is 852 MW.

The total power generation capacity of Pakistan is 21,143 MW and the electricity demand (as of April 2010) is 14,500 MW and PEPCO is merely generating 10,000 MW.

Read more about this topic:  Electricity Sector In Pakistan

Famous quotes containing the words installed and/or capacity:

    Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise—nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.
    Marilyn Hacker (b. 1942)

    ... the majority of colored men do not yet think it worth while that women aspire to higher education.... The three R’s, a little music and a good deal of dancing, a first rate dress-maker and a bottle of magnolia balm, are quite enough generally to render charming any woman possessed of tact and the capacity for worshipping masculinity.
    Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)