Khyber Pakthunkhwa Energy and Power Department has proposed three mega hydropower projects (HPPs) costing Rs177.244 billion for annual development programme of the upcoming budget 2021-22 to address the problem of energy shortfall. These hydropower projects include construction of 96 MW Batakundi costing Rs40 billion, 188MW Naran costing Rs70 billion in Manshera district and
A view of the power house. Dawn
LOWER DIR: About 90 per cent work on the under-construction Koto hydropower project (Koto-HPP) has been done and it will be completed by December this year, said assistant project director while briefing a team of the district administration.
The team, including deputy commissioner Aun Haider Gondal, Timergara assistant commissioner Tahir Ali and other officials, visited the project site here the other day.
Giving details, Koto-HPP assistant director Mohammad Shuaib said the powerhouse would generate 40.8MW of electricity that would be added to the national grid.
Official says it will generate 40.8MW of electricity
He said that the remaining 10 per cent work on the project would be completed by coming December. He said work on the power tunnel had been completed by the contractor before its stipulated time.