UNB, Dhaka :
The Power Grid Company of Bangladesh (PGCB) has undertaken two major projects aiming to address low voltage problem and improve power supply in Chittagong city within next two years.
Officials said the state-owned transmission agency at a hotel in the capital on Wednesday signed two contracts worth Tk 293 crore with a Chinese firm, Jiang Su Etern Co Ltd, to build a nine-km underground high voltage transmission line, and set up a substation.
A PGCB statement said the Chinese firm will build the 230/132 KV grid substation (GIS), the biggest substation with Japanese technology equipped with 23 bays, in Shikalbaha area.
A top official said famous Japanese firm Hitachi will supply the substation’s equipment.
The Chinese company will construct a six-km long double circuit transmission line from Agrabad to Rampur and a three-km long four-circuit underground transmission line from Khulshi to Halishahar to replace the existing overhead transmission line.
Both the two-year schemes are being implemented under PGCB’s National Power Transmission Network Development Project, informed the official.
PGCB Company Secretary Md Ashraf Hossain and Hua Jie Jack of Jiang Su Etern company signed the contracts where PGCB Managing Director Masum Al Beruni and its Executive Director (P&D) Chowdhury Alamgir Hossain were present among others.
The Power Grid Company of Bangladesh (PGCB) has undertaken two major projects aiming to address low voltage problem and improve power supply in Chittagong city within next two years.
Officials said the state-owned transmission agency at a hotel in the capital on Wednesday signed two contracts worth Tk 293 crore with a Chinese firm, Jiang Su Etern Co Ltd, to build a nine-km underground high voltage transmission line, and set up a substation.
A PGCB statement said the Chinese firm will build the 230/132 KV grid substation (GIS), the biggest substation with Japanese technology equipped with 23 bays, in Shikalbaha area.
A top official said famous Japanese firm Hitachi will supply the substation’s equipment.
The Chinese company will construct a six-km long double circuit transmission line from Agrabad to Rampur and a three-km long four-circuit underground transmission line from Khulshi to Halishahar to replace the existing overhead transmission line.
Both the two-year schemes are being implemented under PGCB’s National Power Transmission Network Development Project, informed the official.
PGCB Company Secretary Md Ashraf Hossain and Hua Jie Jack of Jiang Su Etern company signed the contracts where PGCB Managing Director Masum Al Beruni and its Executive Director (P&D) Chowdhury Alamgir Hossain were present among others.
