AES Pak Gen (Private) Company Summary Of Project Information (SPI)       Project Name    Pakistan-AES Pak Gen                Region    Central Asia, Middle East and North Africa (CAMENA)      Sector   Project No005141   Projected Board DateOctober 27, 1995   Company NameAES Pak Gen (Private) Company   Technical Partner and/or Major Shareholders    	AES Transpower Inc., Arlington, VA, USA    Project Cost Including proposed IFC investment    	US $ 348 million (Estimated)    Location of project and Description of site    	Lal Pir, Punjab Province, Pakistan   	Proposed IFC investment:  A Loan = $20 million,    	B Loan = $50 million, and Equity = $9.5 million    Description of Company and Purpose of Project    	Shortage of electrical energy is a major constraint on Pakistans economy.  Load Shedding is commonplace, and is now at 15% of peak demand.  The World Bank estimates the cost to the economy of load shedding at nearly US$ 1 billion per year.  Hence, addressing the power shortage problem has become one of Pakistans highest priorities.  To this end the Government of Pakistan has introduced a Power Policy Guideline (March 1994) to increase the participation of independent power producers on its system.  AES Pak Gen will be one of the first projects to be implemented under the new guidelines.  The project, to be located in Lal Pir in the Punjab Province, is to build, own and operate a power plant with a net capacity of 337 MW, adjacent to the AES Lal Pir power project (IFC Investment # 4592).  The technology used in the project is conventional steam electric  generation, and the turnkey contractor is Nichimen/Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) of Japan.  The date-certain EPC contract with Nichimen/MHI will enable this power plant to commence commercial operations before the end of 1997.    Environmental Category and Issues    	This is a category A project according to IFCs environmental review procedure.  The environmental issues associated with this project include air emissions, water supply impacts, and establishing adequate fuel decanting procedures and containment measures.  The PAK Gen project will have a scrubber to reduce SOx emissions, water supply impacts will be contained through proper treatment of water and the use of well water, and, the sponsor has already begun discussions with the fuel supplier towards implementing best practices measures at the fuel decanting facility.  The project sponsor has prepared an environmental assessment (EA) for the project and is continuing with the public consultation program initiated with the Lal Pir project.  The EA demonstrates that the projects impacts can be mitigated to acceptable levels.  The Environment Division has cleared this project.    The  is  from the Public Information Center.       Host country location of environmental documents    Environmental Protection Agency of Pakistan, Punjab Province, Pakistan      Date SPI sent to PIC September 27, 1995   For Additional Information contact:  Corporate Relations Unit -   telephone: (202) 473-7711   facsimile: (202) 676-0365  Environmental documents for this project are available at http://www.ifc.org and from the World Bank InfoShop (http://www.worldbank.org/html/pic/aboutinfo.html).