KARACHI - Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) and Aga Khan Hospital and Medical College Foundation (AKHMCF) have signed contract agreements with the Siemens Pakistan for establishment of a 132kV GIS Grid Station at AKHMCF premises, at a total cost of Rs680.7 million.
The Grid Station would be jointly shared by KESC and AKHMCF. At the contract signing, Chief Generation and Transmission Officer Syed Arshad Masood Zahidi represented the KESC and Director General Planning and Development Karim Nur Mohamed represented the AKHMCF. The new Grid Station would allow reliable supply of electricity to AKHMCF, given the vital nature of its healthcare services to the patients, in addition to KESC consumers. It would also improve the system reliability and stability by enhancing KESC's installed capacity from 4,573 MVA to 4,653 MVA with the addition of 3 Power Transformers. 
The new Grid Station would also cater to the future needs of Aga Khan University and Hospital, where demand is expected to grow up to 16 megawatts by the year 2022. Furthermore, it would relieve the overloaded Grids of Civic Center, Baloch Colony and Gulshan Iqbal and also partially meet the requirement of future load growth in PECHS, Bhadurabad, KDA scheme-I and adjoining areas.  This is also a milestone affirming KESC’s commitment to provide uninterrupted, stable and reliable power supply to its consumers.