Pakistan’s power division has announced plans to abandon the 300-megawatt coal-based power plant located at Gwadar and replace it with a solar plant of the same capacity, according to The International News.
Khurram Dastgir Khan, federal minister for the power division, said the government will also ban new power plants based on imported fuel and would add new capacity to electricity-generation based on local fuel. However, the government will continue to install more nuclear power plants.
The project was approved in 2016 and will enlist the help of China to install the new 300-megawatt solar plant.
“We have decided to abandon the project, but we will have to take up the issue at various CPEC forums with our Chinese counterparts,” said Khan, referring to the Chinese-Pakistan Economic Corridor. “CPEC projects have sensitivity and importance which is why the power division’s decision to replace the imported coal-based project at Gwada
