Matiari-Lahore HVDC transmission line
Matiari to Lahore ±660 kV HVDC Transmission Line Project has almost been completed as its Lahore converter station DC bipolar finished open line test.
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Pakistan, Islamabad: Matiari to Lahore ±660 kV High Voltage Direct Current Transmission Line Project has almost been completed as its Lahore converter station DC bipolar finished open line test.
One of the projects of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), the 886 km transmission line, runs from the southwest to the northeast of Pakistan, passing through the provinces of Sindh and Punjab. It is the first ±660 kV DC project overseas of the State Grid Company of China (SGCC) with completely independent intellectual property rights and all its economic and technical indicators are at the international leading level, according to China Economic Net on 4 November.
Due to the old circuits and inadequate power transmission channels, it is difficult to transport the abundant power resources in southern Pakistan to the north, where people suffer from a severe shortage of electricity.
Accordingly, HVDC transmission line was planned under CPEC for which the Cooperation Agreement was signed in 2015 between SGCC and National Transmission & Despatch Company in Pakistan. At the most severe stage of the epidemic in Pakistan, SGCC guided the Matiari-Lahore project department to establish a leading group on epidemic prevention.
“In view of a large number of workers from both China and Pakistan, we have printed the prevention and control manuals in Chinese, English, and Urdu to facilitate local employees. We have also set up multilingual signboards at the site, and organized Pakistani construction and security personnel to jointly carry out emergency drills to improve their protection awareness,” said Xu Baowei, manager of the comprehensive management department of the project.
Engineers finished the entire line stringing work besides energizing the converter station near Lahore last month.
The highest voltage level of Pakistan’s National Grid has reached 660 kV, which is a new milestone in Pakistan’s power history.
Source: China Economic Net