Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) will commission a 136-megawatt (MW) Rental Power Project by the end of this month. This project will contribute 3.2 million units of electricity per day to the national grid to share the electricity consumption load on the power system.
The project is being elected at the premises of Bhikhi Grid Station in Sheikhupura district near the load center so as to minimise the loss of electricity during its transmission to the consumption centres.
It is pertinent to mention that besides devising an energy conservation programme, Wapda planned to inject two-rental thermal power stations of 286MW in this power generation system in order to reduce gap between demand and supply of electricity in the country. One such rental powerhouse of 150MW capacity was earlier commissioned in March this year.