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Fauji Fertilizer Company Energy Limited, has built 49.5 MW wind Energy Farm at Jhimpir near Karachi. Contract of supply of mechanical design was awarded to Nordex and Descon Engineering Limited. Nordex a German wind turbine manufacturer. Pakistani Govt. also has issued LOI of 100 MW Wind power plant to FFCEL. Pakistani Govt. has plans to achieve electric power up to 2500 MW by the end of 2015 from wind energy to bring down energy shortage. The ADB financed $143 million Jhimpir windmill project, which is being executed by Zorlu Energy Pakistan, the local subsidiary of a Turkish company, on the land of 1148 acres at Jhimpir in Thatta District of Sindh province.
As many as 34 wind turbines have been erected on the wind farm with power generation capacity of 1.8 megawatts each turbine.
In total more than 106 megawatts electricity has so far been included in the national power transmission system when the wind energy projects of FFCEL and Zorlu Energy became operational and started generating electricity.
Currently, 45 wind power projects of around 3200 MW capacity are under process in Pakistan.