Presented

By
Muhammad Sohaib
Shahid
Anas Tariq
Muahmmad Muneeb

2013-EE-121
2013-EE-112
2013-EE-24

Department of Electrical
Engineering
University of Engineering and
Technology, Lahore

Hub Coal Power

Hub Coal Power Project Site
Project Site
The map shows the location of the
existing Hub oil-fired power plant, in
Hub tehsil, Lasbela district,
Balochistan province.

Hub, a Balochistans industrial estate,

is 56-kilometer from Karachi
Pakistans port city and financial
center.

The new coal-fired plant would be

built adjacent to this existing oil-fired
plant

Project Outset
Project Outset
A part of China Pakistan Economic
Corridor (CPEC), HUBCO is the
only power project under CPEC in
Balochistan.

The project is being undertaken

through a joint venture between
HUBCO and China Power
International Holding Limited
(CPIH), a wholly-owned core
enterprise of State Power
Investment Corporation (SPIC),
one of the five State Power
Corporations in China.

Generation Capacity
Project Outset
Hub power plant, a coal-fired
power plant with a capacity of
generating 1320 megawatts.

The power plant would have two

units of 660MW each.

The cost of the project is estimated

at $2.4 billion and it would be
one of the largest private-sector
investments in Pakistan.

Coal Jetty
Project Outset
The coal-handling jetty will be
constructed as a whole by
China Harbor Engineering
Co, a subsidiary of China State
Construction Engineering Corp.

The jetty will serve the ChinaPakistan Hub 2x660MV coalfired power plant being built at
Hub in Balochistan, and
perform as a transport
center and support facility
for the power plant.

How Will the Coal be

Transported
Project Outset
The construction of the
jetty is expected to be
completed by September
2018, with an uploading
requirement of 4.4 million
tons of coal being met
annually.

Imported coal will be

used to run the plant as
well as to set up a coal jetty
for handling supplies.
Later, the company will
switch to Thar coal.

Why will Imported Coal be used ?

Although Pakistan has very large coal reserves but mostly it is of inferior quality.
Miners have to go 500 1000 feet deep, which ultimately increases cost of production.
The local coal mines are not mechanized and this results in high production cost.
Coal is by no means a homogenous term; and in fact can be
categorized or ranked according to the degree to which the
original plant material has been transformed into carbon. The
ranking of coal therefore, from most to least carbon content
are:
Anthracite
Bituminous Coal
Sub-Bituminous Coal
Pakistans coal reserves are almost exclusively comprised of Lignite Lignite
known to be the dirtiest of the fossil fuels.
(Contd.)

The Calorific Values of the coal that will be imported along with weighted
average of the calorific values of local coal and imported coal are given as
following;

The low weighted average calorific values of local coal solidifies the
point of importing coal from countries having coal reserves with good
calorific values.

Electricity Tariff
Project Outset
The reference levelised
tariff awarded to the
project is 8.117 Rs/kWh
with the project being
foreign financed and using
imported coal.

Socio-Economic
Benefits
Hub coal power project will
not only bring prosperity to the
country but will also accelerate
the pace of development in
Balochistan by generating
employment opportunities for
the local population.

Environmental
Concerns

According to the financial

statement, the Balochistan
Environmental Protection Agency
has granted CPHGC a noobjection certificate for initiating
work on the hub power plant and
construction work at the site has
been started a long ago.

Environmental
Concerns

Earlier, HUBCO conducted an

environmental and social impact
assessment study, with the assistance
of renowned consultants Hagler Bailey
and submitted a report to the
environmental protection agency.

This was followed by a public hearing

as well. The remarks of the report were
quite satisfactory concerning the plant.

 The financial closing of the plant is

expected by August 2016, with the
project likely to come online in 2020
at the latest, with an early target set
for 2018. Once completed, itwould be
one of the biggest private-sector
investments in the country.
According to reports, the plant is
expected to utilize at least thirty
percent local subcontractors and
suppliers a mandate set up by the
Pakistan Engineering Council which
issues constructors and operators
licenses for such projects.
So in the long term, the project can
also help the Pakistani government
gradually adjust the nations energy
and electricity structure, optimize the
investment environment and facilitate
infrastructure construction, which will
contribute to the public good,