A meeting of
Cabinet Committee on Energy was held today with Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan
Abbasi in chair.
The meeting
reviewed progress of transmission line project for Port Qasim, Coal-Fired Power
Plants, Neelum-Jhelum project, Hydel Power Projects, Trabela-IV and Golen Gol
Hydel Power Project.
Managing
Director NTDC informed the meeting that work on all transmission lines has been
expedited. Transmission Line to evacuate power from Port Qasim power plant will
be completed ahead of scheduled date of31st October 2017.
Similarly, transmission lines for Neelum-Jehlum and Tarbela-IV will also be
completed before the projects start producing electricity. For Golen Gol HPP,
13MW of electricity will be made available by December 2017. Moreover, in order
to provide electricity to all the valleys in Chitral, two projects worth Rs.
5.1 billion have been prepared and PC-1s are under process in the Planning
Division.
The Prime
Minister directed Ministry of Power and PESCO to expedite approval of PC-1 so
that all the village in Chitral can be electrified as soon as possible.
Ministry of
Power informed the meeting that Government of Iran was interested in providing
100MW of electricity in addition to existing arrangement for 100 MW which is
renewed annually. For the additional 100 MW, transmission line and grid station
has to be constructed to meet immediate needs of Makran division especially
Gawadar Port and industrial area.
The CCE
approved the proposal and directed the Ministry to make immediate arrangements
for purchase of additional electricity from Iran and to complete the spadework
expeditiously. Prime Minister also directed Ministry of Power to expedite
transmission line projects for connecting Makran Division with then national
grid on priority basis.
Ministry of
Power also informed the meeting that as per the latest projections, Pakistan
will have surplus power starting in the year 2017-18. This surplus power will
be further augmented during the subsequent years with the addition of new
capacity from the Thar Coal as well as upcoming hydel projects. Additional
power will be sufficient to cater for the growing demand for industry as well
as domestic consumers.
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