ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is now steadily moving from imported fuels to local fuel for power generation and from outdated technology to new Chinese technology, Minister for Power Khurram Dastgir Khan said.

“This shift is happening and Chinese companies are much more visible now. They are bringing their technology, their management to Pakistan and they are teaching Pakistani engineers and workers,” he told Xinhua in recent interview at power transmission project under CPEC. Deeper penetration of Chinese companies into energy sector was one of major positive developments that had happened in country as result of CPEC, he said.

Highlighting prospects of transmission network, he said that 660kV Matiari-Lahore high-voltage direct current transmission project under CPEC was most advanced transmission project in Pakistan’s history.

Published in The Daily National Courier, July, 14 2023

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