Managing Director of National Transmission and Dispatch Company (NTDC) Dr Fiaz Ahmed Chaudhry said that increasing demand of electricity in the country required a considerable quantum of power to cater for. His remarks came at that the concluding ceremony of two-day capacity building workshop for the NTDC staff by the Netherlands KEMA Laboratories at a local hotel.
He said consequently, NTDC was building a huge infrastructure of transmissions lines and grid stations for evacuation of power from upcoming power generation facilities in 2017-18. Thus, the capacity building of human resource and all spheres of NTDC was inevitable for having a real professional team.
He thanked the experts of KEMA labs and said that NTDC will fetch adequate consultants from international firms to impart professional prowess, technical know-how, network expansion and reliability improvement of the company. The Country Manager KEMA Labs Mr Kashif Rehman said that this training workshop would provide all the assistance to understand the future challenges and their solutions. NTDC was backbone of the power sector of the country and economy revolves around it. It is very important to bring NTDC transmission network as most reliable, sustainable and modernised utility of the world.
The KEMA Labs had more than 150 year history and were well-known independent laboratories for testing and certification of medium and high voltage components used in the electrical infrastructure (transmission lines and grid stations). The KEMA experts delivered their presentations on technical aspects of Next Generation SCADA - Provisions for Smart Grid, Asset Management (following ISO 55000), Application of ERP Systems in Transmission Companies and Testing & Certification of Transmission & Distribution Equipments. GM Technical NTDC also presented an over view of NTDC and developments in the power sector. Representatives of Asian Development Bank, All GMs, CEs and other NTDC officers attended the workshop.