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PESHAWAR: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) has granted a licence to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for setting up a company to lay power transmission lines and put up grid stations to supply electricity produced by units located across the province. Adviser to the chief minister for energy and power Himayatullah Khan told Dawn that the Nepra had approved the province’s application for the issuance of licence for the transmission and grid company formed by the province lately. The provincial cabinet had approved in May last year the formation of the KP Transmission and Grid Syste...

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 whe...

NTDC shortlists candidate demanding fabulous pay Aizaz Ahmed, a candidate working abroad, has demanded $15,000 to work as company’s managing director Apart from laying new transmission lines, the company has to upgrade its entire system to provide support for an additional load of around 10,000MW, which is expected to be added to the national grid by 2018. PHOTO: FILE ISLAMABAD: The National Transmission and Dispatch Company (NTDC), a subsidiary of the Ministry of Energy, has shortlisted a panel of four senior officers, including a candidate demanding extraordinary salary, for appointment a...

Contesting objections by the federal entities, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government is pushing for a transmission and grid system licence. — AFP/File ISLAMABAD: Contesting objections by the federal entities, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government is pushing for a transmission and grid system licence to ensure evacuation of about 7,300MW of its power generation lined up through substantial local and foreign investment. The National Transmission and Disptach Company (NTDC) and Central Power Purchase Agency (CPPA) had last month opposed the grant of transmission licence to the Pakhtunkhwa Transmissi...

A parliamentary panel on Tuesday expressed concern over exaggerated and estimated billing by some power companies. — Reuters/File ISLAMABAD: A parliamentary panel on Tuesday expressed concern over exaggerated and estimated billing by some power companies and called for shifting the headquarters of the National Transmission and Dispatch Company (NTDC) to Islamabad from Lahore to improve its performance. A meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Power, presided over by Senator Fida Mohammad Khan, discussed allocations for the power sector in the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP)...