KARACHI: A high level delegation of Asian Development Bank (ADB) visits windmill power project at Jhimpir town of Thatta district and expresses satisfaction over progress of the project which is scheduled to start producing 106 MW electricity per day from Jan. 2013.
Zorlu Energi Group of Turkey and Fauji Foundation Company (FFC) have installed 33 turbines each at the site and would be operating these for next twenty years under the guarantee of Government of Pakistan.
In his brief comments to a group of reporters there, on Tuesday evening, leader of the visiting ADB team Maurin Sitours expressed satisfaction over the progress of the project and said the bank would continue its support.
ADB has provided dollars 58 million for this project, he said.
He said that ADB was considering to finance more projects in Pakistan.
Led by Maurin Sitours, the ADB team comprised Ashok Lahri from India, Kazuhiko Koguchi from Japan, Jerome Joseph Lous Destombes from France, Richard John Anthony Karol Edwards from British, Khin Khin Lwin from Myanmar, Siraj Shamsuddin from Pakistan. The team members were Executive Directors of the bank.
Copyright APP (Associated Press of Pakistan), 2012
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