Developers: Pakistan’s state-owned high voltage network developer, National Transmission and Despatch Company Limited (NTDC) Project details and status: The project entails the construction of a 75-km-long, 500 kV double-circuit...
Read MorePakistan’s state-owned high voltage network developer, National Transmission and Despatch Company Limited (NTDC), has laid the foundation stone for the 500 kV Suki Kinari transmission line project. The project entails...
Read MoreThe 886-km, ±660 kV Matiari-Lahore high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission line, Pakistan’s first HVDC project, completed one year of commercial operation on September 1, 2022.
Read MorePakistan’s high voltage network developer, National Transmission and Despatch Company Limited (NTDC), has connected the 330 MW fourth unit of the Thal Nova power plant with the grid.
Read MorePakistan’s high voltage network developer, National Transmission and Despatch Company Limited (NTDC), has signed an agreement with Iran Power Generation Transmission & Distribution Management Company (Tavanir) for the supply of additional 100 MW of electricity from Iran to fulfil the daily power needs of the port city of Gwadar.
Read MoreAs per the recently published data of Planning Commission, the Pakistan government under its Annual Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) has released PKR46.8 billion for various power division schemes during the last 11 months of the 2021-22 fiscal year.
Read MorePakistan has been grappling with severe power shortages as the state-owned electric utilities have been performing poorly owing to financial and administrative constraints.
Read MorePakistan’s Cabinet Committee on Energy (CCoE) has urged the state-owned high voltage network developer, National Transmission and Despatch Company Limited (NTDC), to complete the construction of the 500 kV line needed for evacuating power from the 660 MW Lucky Electric Coal-Fired Power Plant (LEPCL).
Read MoreIran plans to export an additional 70 MW of electricity to Pakistan to meet the latter’s energy demand of Gwadar, in case the commissioning of the 300 MW coal-fired power plant being set up at Gwadar is delayed.
Read MoreThe commercial operation date for the ±660 kV high voltage direct current (HVDC) Matiari─Lahore transmission line project has been extended from March 2021 to September 2021.
Read MoreWork on Pakistan’s first direct current (DC) transmission project connecting Matiari and Lahore has been completed, and the line is ready to be energised by the Pak Matiari–Lahore Transmission Company Limited (PMLTCPL)—a special purpose vehicle (SPV) formed for the execution and completion of this project in Pakistan.
Read MoreA major chunk of essential works on the 886-km-long, ±660 kV high voltage direct current (HVDC) Matiari–Lahore Transmission Line Project has been completed by the Pak Matiari-Lahore Transmission Company Limited (PMLTCPL)—a special purpose vehicle (SPV) formed for the execution and completion of this project in Pakistan.
Read MorePakistan’s state-owned, high voltage network developer, National Transmission and Despatch Company Limited (NTDC) has competed 86 per cent construction works on the ±660 kV high voltage direct current (HVDC) Matiari–Lahore Transmission Line Project.
Read MorePakistan’s Central Development Working Party (CDWP), part of the Planning and Development Division of the country’s Planning Commission, has approved two transmission projects, worth PKR6 billion, in the country.
Read MorePakistan’s Central Development Working Party (CDWP), part of the Planning and Development Division of the country’s Planning Commission, has approved the PKR4 billion for ‘Provision of Electricity for Dhabeji SEZ Phase-1’ project which aims to construct the 220 kV Dhabeji SEZ grid station to supply a load of 250 MW, under the applicable National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) rules and other SEZ regulations.
Read MoreChina has expedited its initial work on the high voltage direct current (HVDC) Matiari–Lahore Transmission Line Project in Pakistan.
Read MoreProject developers have begun works on the high voltage direct current (HVDC) Matiari–Lahore Transmission Line Project in Pakistan.
Read MoreThe Government of Pakistan (GoP) has given an extension to Chinese investors for achieving financial closure of two major power sector projects worth PKR2.2 billion under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
Read MorePakistan’s state-owned high voltage grid developer National Transmission and Despatch Company (NTDC), its subsidiary Pak Matiari Lahore Transmission Line Company, and China-based Industrial Construction Bank of China (ICBC) recently signed transmission service, operation and maintenance (O&M), land lease, and right-of-way (RoW) agreements for the 660 kV Matiari–Lahore high voltage direct current (HVDC) project.
Read MoreThe Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) of Pakistan has approved various development projects in the country.
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