Pakistan on Friday said that State Grid of China will help build a 4,000 MW power transmission line in Pakistan in a project valued at $1.5 billion. The transmission line will link north-south National Grid.
An agreement on the project was signed on Thursday in Beijing between Mohammad Younus Dagha, Pakistan’s secretary of water and power, and Shu Yinbiao, chairman of State Grid Corporation of China, the government said in a statement.
The high-capacity transmission line will be the first of its kind in Pakistan and will link Matiari town in the south, near a new power station, to Lahore city in the east, a key link in transmission infrastructure, the Pakistani government said.
Construction will begin in January, and should take about 20 months, said a spokesman for the Pakistani Prime Minister’s office.
The project is the latest in a series of big Chinese investments, most of which fall under a planned $55 billion worth of projects for a China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
The corridor is a combination of power and infrastructure projects that link western China to Pakistan’s southern port of Gwadar.
