April 17, 2012. The newly-built, state-of-the-art combined cycle power plant of Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC), having the maximum power generation capacity of 560 megawatts started power generation and was expected to optimum generation capacity within the next 24 hours. The Bin Qasim Power Station II was completed at a cost of $450 million in record three-year period and with its completion and start of power production, the indigenous power generation capacity of the utility stands at over 2,000MW. The power plant has three gas-powered turbines, each having the power generation capacity of producing 125MW electricity, while a steam turbine that would be powered from the heat generated from gas turbine, would add around 185MW to the power generation capacity of the plant.