Bayat Power officials say they are hoping to start work soon on Phase 2 of Bayat Power-1 in northern Jawzjan province in order to increase electricity production output for Afghanistan.Company officials said Tuesday they have started discussions with relevant government departments to start the project.Mohammad Shoaib Sahibzada, the technical head of Bayat Power, said that once Phase 2 is complete, electricity production will increase from 40 to 100 megawatts.Sahibzada said Bayat Power's natural gas to electricity generation project will eventually produce up to 250 megawatts of electricity once Phase 3 is complete.Currently, it has a production of 40 megawatts, and in the second phase, it will produce 100 megawatts.
Bayat Power is in contact with the relevant officials regarding the start of the second phase, the discussions are ongoing,& said Sahibzada.Bayat Power has produced one billion kilowatt hours of electricity in under five years after starting commercial operations in late 2019.Sahibzada said that over the past five years, the company has also worked on capacity building of its technical employees.After 40 years, Bayat Power is the first private company to produce electricity from natural gas in the country and the multi-million dollar plant uses Siemens Energy's SGT-A45 mobile gas turbine for its economic efficiency, flexible deployment, and power density.Currently providing electricity to hundreds of thousands of end-users and generating more than 300 million kWh annually, the project was structured as an innovative public-private partnership between Bayat Power, Siemens Energy, and Afghanistan government entities such as theMinistry of Mines and Petroleum, the Ministry of Energy and Water, and the General Directorate of Afghan Gas Corporation Company, Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS), and international partners.The Bayat Group is the largest private investor in Afghanistan and Bayat Power is currently the only gas-powered plant in the country.
The Siemens Energy's SGT-A45 mobile gas turbine used by the company is the only one in operation in the world.The former head of DABS Amanullah Ghalib said this week that Bayat Power was a good example of Afghanistan being able to implement big projects.To achieve self-sufficiency, one of the most important resources for Afghanistan is natural gas.
Afghanistan has a lot of natural gas resources in the north and northeast, from which it can become self-sufficient for electricity production and reduce its dependence on its neighbors,& said Ghalib.Bayat Power project is one of the very effective and good examples that Afghanistan can use its experience and implement bigger projects in the future,& Ghalib added.Related Stories: Bayat Power blazes ahead as it hits the one billion kWh of energy production milestoneAfghanistan's Bayat Power the Proud Winner of Asian Power Award 2023The post Bayat Power in talks with Afghan officials for Phase 2 of gas to electricity project first appeared on Ariana News.