On October 15, 2008, a Turkish company was reportedly close to completing the first windmill in Pakistan.[1] The Jhimpir Wind Power Plant
Five wind turbines in Jhimpir, 70 km from Karachi are being developed by Zorlu Enerji Pakistan the local subsidiary of a Turkish company. Total cost of the project is $110 million.
Zorlu Enerji is reported to have completed five wind turbines in Jhimpir, each capable of producing 1.2 megawatts of electricity. Though initially 6MW of electricity will be produced by the company, the project will be expanded to 50MW in the next few years.
The first phase of the project came online in mid-2009. The farm has a total capacity of 6 MW, consisting of 5 towers with gearless VENSYS-62 tubines, each capable of producing a maximum of 1.2 MW in ideal wind conditions. The farm is planned to be extended in future to 50 MW in Phase 2 and to a maximum of 300 MW in Phase 3 if future negotiations are successful.[2]
Currently the privately owned Turkish wind farm is selling the produced electricity to Pakistan at a rate of 12.1057 US cents per Kilowatt hour of electricity.[3]
The project is still going on and will be completed in 2012.