68 Mega Watts power generation starts

LAHORE Both main units of Khan Khawar Hydropower Station have started generating 68 megawatt electricity, after inflow of sufficient water, as per their cumulative installed capacity, delivering over 1.1 million units of electricity to the National Grid daily, which is equivalent to over Rs 10 million revenue. The third auxiliary unit of 4MW will also go into operation soon. According to the Wapda spokesman, Khan Khawar Hydropower Station had started its commercial operation in December 2010. The 72MW hydropower station, one of the three high-head hydropower projects, has been constructed on Khan Khawar (river), a tributary of the River Indus near Besham in Shangla district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Rest of the two projects namely 121MW Allai Khawar and 130MW Duber Khawar are also at the advance stage of their completion, he added. This project to help meet the water shortage for agriculture land alonwith the power shortage.

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