Power Production Capacity Sufficient to the Need

At present there are 12 grid stations of 500 KV having capacity of 14850 MVA and 26 sub-station of 220 KV with 15364 MVA capacity, and these grids are sufficiently catering to the power needs of the country says MD PEPCO/NTDC Rasul Khan Mahsud

The  National Transmission and Dispatch Company (NTDC) has established a new 220KV Grid Station at WAPDA Town Lahore,  besides achieving an overall 85 percent work progress on another station of same capacity at Ghazi Road here that will help reduce load-shedding duration in LESCO domain.

Talking to the Jahangir’s World Times (JWT)  the PEPCO/NTDC Managing Director Rasul Khan Mahsud said that the NTDC is extending and improving country’s power transmission system following increase in electricity generation through new and up-gradation projects in line with the present democratic government’s commitment to ensure optimum utilization of all available resources to balance the power demand and supply mechanism.

Mahsud said that Rs 1.862 billion project of Wapda Town grid station entails installation of 220/132 KV transformers and three 160MVA (Mega Volt Ampere) transformers with controlling switch-gears on both sides, 4 No. 220KV line bays and 220KV Lahore-Kot Lakhpat double circuit in/out transmission line.
Detailing the salient features of Ghazi Road Grid Station, Rasul Khan Mahsud said that for being closer to the Indian border, it would be the foremost and nearest available grid station for pole-to-pole power import, if Pakistan reached into an agreement with India for import of electricity.

The PEPCO/NTDC Managing Director said, the estimated cost of this vital project is Rs 2.562 billion with scope of work including construction of sub-station consisting of 220KV and three 160MVA transformers along with controlling switch-gears, construction of 220kV double circuit transmission line for in/out of existing Kala Shah Kaku-Sarfaraz Nagar single circuit line and construction of 220KV double circuit transmission line in/out for Kala Shah Kaku-Ravi single circuit.

The Ghazi Road 220KV Grid Station would also help reduce power load from 220/132KV transformers feeding the LESCO (Lahore Electric Supply Company) load centres and decrease transmission losses with better voltage control..

Responding to a query, he said, the Company had also the credit of stretching 246 kilometres long 220KV double circuit twin bundle transmission line in a very short span of time. The line, he added, would transmit 325MW generated electricity from power stations installed over Dabair Khuwar (Khuwar, a Pashto word which means tributary or nulla), Khan Khuwar and Allai Khuwar to Islamabad via Mansehra district.

He  said,  the SNC Company Canada and NESPAK has completed the feasibility report of 500KV HVDC and HVAC lines for transmission of imported 3400MW coal-based power. While, feasibility report was being prepared for transmission of 2400MW to be generated through Thar Coal deposits and its PCÅ I had been forwarded to the government.

Now, the NTDC has also connected eight independent power plants of 1,725MW collective capacity in the main power system. Similarly, 300MW Chashma Nuclear Power Plant’s generation has been connected to main power system through 140 kilometres long 220KV transmission line.         -JWT Report