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Guddu Thermal Power Station

Guddu, Pakistan

The 270th largest power station in the world

2.43 GW · Capacity

The Guddu Thermal Power Plant, also known by other names such as Central Power Generation Company Limited, and GENCO-II, is a thermal power station located in Guddu, Sindh, Pakistan. Built in the 1980s, the power plant was built with joint technical cooperation and financial assistance from the Soviet Union. In April 2014, the then-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif inaugurated commissioning of two gas turbines of 243 MW each. As of 2017, the station had seventeen installed power units and its contribution to the national grid stood between 1,400 MW to 1,750 MW.

Power station data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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