Secretary Water and Power will hold an important meeting of National Transmission and Dispatch Company (NTDC) on Thursday to assess the existing state of affairs and the challenges ahead. Sources said the high-ups of the NTDC remained busy throughout Wednesday to finalise their presentations with different aspects/

The NTDC is set to increase its capacity up to 24,624MVA (mega volt ampere) on its 18 grid stations of 500KVA and 33,873MVA on 50 grid stations of 220KVA by year 2018. The transmission lines' length would reach up to 7,127 kilo meters and 10,129 kilo meters among 500KVA and 220KVA grids, respectively till 2018. While, 25 more power projects would be connected to the NTDC system during this period, he added.

During 2015-2018, more than 50 new power generation projects are to be connected with the national grid in a bid to end power outages. Another milestone has been laying 660kV high voltage direct current (HVDC) for the first time in the country. The National Transmission and Despatch Company (NTDC) is supervising the process of establishing its first HVDC transmission project for the evacuation of upcoming bulk power generation in the south of the country to mid country load centres.

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