State Grid China Company expresses interest in developing AMI for DISCOs in Pakistan

Islamabad: State Grid China Company (SGC) has expressed interest in developing advance metering Infrastructure (AMI) for Distribution Companies (DISCOs) in Pakistan.

The representatives of SGC informed Pakistani Minister for Power Khurram Dastgir Khan in a meeting here that they were interested to work for Pakistani DISCOs in line with the vision of Khurram Dastgir Khan.

The SGC has already installed 500 million AMI meters in China, 5 million in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).

The minister applauded the professionalism of SGC company that has already installed 4000 Megawatt (MW) High-Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) Matiari Lahore transmission line. The project is a milestone in diversification of national grid with maiden addition of HVDC technology.

The SGC, commonly known as the State Grid, is a Chinese state-owned electric utility corporation. It is the largest utility company in the world, and as of 2022, the world’s third largest company overall by revenue, behind Walmart and Amazon.

In 2022 it was reported as having 871,145 employees, 1.1 billion customers and revenue equivalent to US $ 460,616.9 million.

After the electricity Plant-Grid Separation reform in early 2002, the assets of State Electric Power Corporation were divided into five power generation groups that retained the power plants and five regional subsidiaries belonging to the State Grid Corporation of China in Beijing.