LAHORE: The National Transmission and Despatch Company Ltd (NTDC) has successfully connected Patrind Hydropower Plant to Muzaffarabad-II grid station through 132kV double circuit transmission line, in Azad Jamu Kashmir.
According to the spokesman of NTDC, one unit of the plant started generating power on Tuesday and was connected with the national grid. After the completion of the testing process, power generation would be increased to its optimal level, he added.
The spokesman said that 147MW Patrind hydropower plant would benefit the areas of Hazara and AJK. “A separate transmission line will also be connected with 220kV Mansehra Grid Station, which will improve the voltage level and help in reducing load shedding in AJK and Hazara Division,” he said.
The spokesman further said the government of Pakistan was committed to eradicate load shedding from the country and NTDC has already provided transmission interconnection facilities to many power generation projects with their total installed capacity of 6,164MW.
“These projects include Bhikki 1,200MW, Haveli Bahadur Shah 1,200MW, Balloki 1,200MW, Sahiwal 1,320MW, Chashma C3 and C4 680MW, Quaid-e-Azam, 400MW (For the remaining 600MW, a 220 kV transmission line and associated substation is already complete) and Renolia 17MW,” the spokesman added.
During the current financial year, several 500kV and 220kV transmission line projects are at advanced stages of construction. For instance, out of the total 1,123 kilometre of 500kV transmission lines of various projects, construction progress varies between from 60-90 percent.
These lines include Neelum-Jhelum to Domeli, 3rd Circuit Jamshoro-Moro-Dadu-Rahim Yar Khan, Balloki to New Lahore, Haveli Bahadur Shah of 2nd interconnection and Port Qasim to the connection point at NKI to Jamshoro line.
Transmission line to interconnect Neelum-Jhelum Hydropower Project is 90 percent complete and it would be energised well before the CoD of the power house.
Similarly, out of 614km of 220kV transmission lines of multiple projects, construction progress ranges from 62-98 percent. These projects include Lal Suhanra, Jhimpir-TM Khan, Uch-Sibbi and Gharo-Jhimpir. The replacement of existing 220kV transmission line to evacuate Tarbela Ext-4 (1,410MW) power is currently under progress and should be completed well before the completion of the power plant extension project.
The spokesman further said that NTDC has substantially reinforced its network with 2,000MVA transformation capacity through additions of power transformers in newly constructed 220kV Chishtian and 220kV Gujrat substations along with augmentation of three 250MVA transformers each at 500kV Shiekh Muhammadi, 220kV Burhan and 220kV Ludewala substations.
All these additions and expansions have greatly contributed to alleviate the existing transmission system constraints and provided adequate room for serving additional demand on the system, the spokesman said.
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