Chief Minister Punjab Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif Saturday inaugurated the complete functioning of the 1180 Bhikki power plant that is being added to the national grid. Bhikki power plant is the modern plant running on the gas, It has produced 3.1 billion units of electricity since March 2017. It has been completed after transparent tendering and an amount of Rs 39 billion has been saved from this project. EPC cost of the Bhikki power plant is 466 dollar per kilo watt. It's lowest cost gas-run power plant with record efficiency of 61.59 per cent.
Addressing the ceremony held in connection with the complete functioning of the Bhikki power plant, Shahbaz Sharif said load shedding is being eliminated with the efforts of the PML-N government and 10,000MW of electricity is being generated from the power plants installed by it after the investment of the billions of rupees. He said this plant has been made functional completely in the month of Ramazan and it has been completed with the investment of the Punjab government. He said electricity is being provided to the whole of Pakistan during Iftar, Sehrand Salatul Tarawihand it has been made possible due to blessings of Allah Almighty and day and night efforts of the PML-N. He said federal and Punjab governments have installed power projects from their own resources apart from CPEC. Bhilkki, Haveli Bahadur Shah and Baloki are the gas-run which are producing 3600MW of electricity. All projects have been completed with top speed and transparency.
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