MANSEHRA: The district administration has imposed Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894, banning the sale, purchase and transfer of land to be acquired for the Balakot hydropower project.
“We have already met all legal formalities to acquire over 1,700 kanals of land for the Rs85 billion Balakot power project in Kaghan valley and this process will be completed shortly,” deputy commissioner Dr Qasim Ali Khan told energy minister Himayatullah Khan here on Tuesday.
Led by the minister and having energy secretary Mohammad Zubair as member, a delegation of the Pakhtunkhwa Energy Development Organisation, which is executing the project, visited the project site afterward.
The Nepra had granted a wheeling licence to the Pedo in April last year. AFP/File
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government’s plan to auction 155 megawatts of electricity to industrial units under the wheeling regime has hit a roadblock as two power distribution companies have got a stay order from the court of law against the Nepra’s decision on wheeling charges.
Wheeling is the export of power from generation source to another entity through transmission system of distribution companies, while the fee paid for the use of transmission system is called wheeling charges.
In power wheeling, generation companies use the National Transmission and Dispatch Company’s (NDTC’s) transmission system for high voltage electricity and that of distribution companies for low-voltage power supply.
Work on these hydel projects had begun in 2014 at the cost of Rs5.2 billion with 18 months time limit to provide electricity to off-grid villages in the northern districts. AFP/File
PESHAWAR: The construction of 356 mini hydropower units by the Pakhtunkhwa Energy Development Organisation in 11 districts of the province has suffered a delay of around five years with officials blaming it on the frequent changes of project chief, non-payment of dues to implementing partners, and other technical and administrative issues.
Work on these hydel projects had begun in 2014 at the cost of Rs5.2 billion with 18 months time limit to provide electricity to off-grid villages in the northern districts.
Work on these hydel projects had begun in 2014 at the cost of Rs5.2 billion with 18 months time limit to provide electricity to off-grid villages in the northern districts. AFP/File
PESHAWAR: The construction of 356 mini hydropower units by the Pakhtunkhwa Energy Development Organisation in 11 districts of the province has suffered a delay of around five years with officials blaming it on the frequent changes of project chief, non-payment of dues to implementing partners, and other technical and administrative issues.
Work on these hydel projects had begun in 2014 at the cost of Rs5.2 billion with 18 months time limit to provide electricity to off-grid villages in the northern districts.
KP CM directs to complete arrangements for Balakot Hydropower Project groundbreaking
Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan directed the Pakhtunkhwa Energy Development Organization to complete all the arrangements and preparations well in time to perform the groundbreaking of three hundred megawatt Balakot Hydropower Project by March this year.
Presiding over the Policy Board meeting of PEDO in Peshawar, he termed the project a very important project of energy sector in the province.
The meeting was informed that three hundred Megawatt Balakot Hydropower Project is a run-of-the-river project located on the river Kunhar. The total estimated cost of the project is seven hundred and fifty million dollar whereas the total cost of PC-1 approved by ECNEC is more than eighty five billion rupees.