The project set to be completed by 2018 amounts to around 1.3 percent of the nation’s GDP of $2 billion.
The large construction project is designed to shift the obsolete outdoor substation in southern part of Bhutan to a compact-sized intelligent indoor substation. Korean technologies for digital automatic control and monitoring system will be applied.
KEPCO has maintained a cooperative relationship with the nation after signing a MOU with Bhutan's electric ministry since October of 2014.
The power company has already completed construction and consulting for network connection worth $170 million in 23 countries including Kazakhstan, India and Dominica since 2001. Currently, it is working on power supply project worth $40 million in 13 countries including Pakistan, Nigeria and Cambodia.
KEPCO is also pushing ahead with business to raise power supply efficiency through ESS in the Indian power market.
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