LAHORE: To control loadshedding in the country, the National Transmission and Despatch Company Limited (NTDCL) has launched a project to effectively disperse power from generation plants to distribution companies’ load centres.
According to an NTDCL spokesman, the 126km 220kv Chashma-Bannu link was planned to disperse additional nuclear electricity upcoming at Chashma Nuclear Power Plant. From a number of power dispersal projects in the pipeline funded by international donors, this project was funded through local arrangements and being constructed on twin bundle configuration.
It is expected to be completed before schedule and go a long way in transmitting power to load centres in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to allow economic activity in PESCO and TESCO areas.
The spokesman said following the signing of an agreement on May 13 last year, the high-voltage transmission project was pursued with an ambitious execution plan to get it completed within the scheduled time of 450 days despite security issues and the Indus river crossing.
In 224 days, so far 360 tower foundations out of the total 383 had been concreted as well as 253 towers erected. Currently, very difficult construction of a tower foundation in the Indus was going on.
