Accord for Balochistan solar power plant signed

E-Paper | May 05, 2026

QUETTA, Dec 15: The Balochistan government signed on Sunday an agreement with a Korean company to set up a 300 megawatt solar power plant at a cost of $700 million.

Work on the project will start next year and complete by 2017.

Provincial Energy Secretary Fawad Hashim Rabbani and Chief Executive Officer of the Korean company Dr Choi Moon-Sok signed the agreement.

Speaking on the occasion, Balochistan Chief Minister Dr Abdul Malik Baloch expressed the hope that the power plant would help solve the energy problem in the province.

“The 300MW solar energy project will cater to the needs of industrial, agricultural, commercial and domestic sectors and boost economy,” he said.

The chief minister invited foreign investors to Balochistan and said great investment opportunities exist in the province.

The provincial government would provide all facilities and security to investors, he added.

The government has provided 1,500 acres of land near Quetta for establishing the solar power plant.

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Dec 19, 2013 09:07pm

It is really astonishing that Govt. is setting up the solar plants from IPP without knowing future impact later pose by the solar plants in terms of financial , legal & technical impacts in the energy sector. I fear same fate of these plants as happened with installed power plants in the country.

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