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K-Electric (KE) said to be Pakistan’s only vertically integrated power group — says that it intends to install a 900MW electricity-generating plant running on liquified natural gas in place of an outdated 420MW plant running on heavy fuel oil at its Bin Qasim site.
At a meeting to announce the plan. an official said: “Among other beneficial aspects. the forthcoming energy project is expected to reduce the thermal load of the Bin Qasim power plant of K-Electric. as LNG-based power projects require less water for efficient working of the cooling system than power units based on “residual fuel oil.”
Some at the meeting raised concerns regarding the thermal plume and other discharges from the plant. In response. Mohammad Mansha. general manager at the Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission. said that modelling the project’s air dispersion and thermal plume is underway.
An executive at the National Institute of Oceanography called for special care to protect the marine ecology of the Arabian Sea and the coastline near the proposed project’s site.
She said KE should seek approvals from the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority and others to make use of water that drained into the sea.
