Quaid-e-Azam Solar Power (Pvt.) Limited
May 05, 2015
Quaid-e-Azam Solar Private Limited ("the Company") has constructed Pakistan's first utility scale, grid-connected 100MW Solar Photovoltaic Power Plant in Bahawalpur Pakistan ("the Project"). The Project was inaugurated by the Prime Minister of Pakistan on the 5th of May, 2015. This project is completed by the compnay "Tebian Electric Apparatus, a subsidiary of Xinjiang SunOasis. The project is purely in IPP mode and the financing is obtained from the Bank of Punjab, The installation of the plant was completed within a record time of 3 months (Nov 2014 to Jan 2015). The Project is evacuating electricity to the National Grid period since March 2015 and has achieved Comercial Operations Date ("COD") in July 2015. In first phase of the project, a 100 MW site, is 500 acres (200 ha), hosting 392,158 solar modules of 255 Wp each, 100 centralised inverters of 1 MW each, 100 transformers of 1 MVA each at 33kV. There are also 2 transformers of 100 MVA each at 132 kV in a 100 MVA substation. The electrical output is being connected to a 132kV transmission line that runs through the Solar Park. Currently the transmission line has a capacity of up to 400 MW and the utility company is in the process of upgrading its capacity to 1,000 MW. The Company is generating electricity which is higher from the required benchmarks set out by NEPRA.