Kurram Garhi Hydropower Plant

Kurram Garhi Hydropower Plant
Location of Kurram Garhi Hydropower Plant in Pakistan
Official name Kurram Garhi Hydropower Plant
Location Kurram Garhi, KPK, Pakistan (on border with Kurram Agency, on canal from Kurram River)
Coordinates 33°02′00.48″N 70°31′56.09″E / 33.0334667°N 70.5322472°E / 33.0334667; 70.5322472Coordinates: 33°02′00.48″N 70°31′56.09″E / 33.0334667°N 70.5322472°E / 33.0334667; 70.5322472
Status Operational
Opening date February 1958
Owner(s) Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA)
Dam and spillways
Type of dam run-of-the-river
Impounds Kuchkot Canal from Kurram River
Power station
Name Kurram Garhi Hydropower Plant
Operator(s) WAPDA
Commission date February 1958
Turbines 4 x 1.00 MW
Installed capacity 4 MW
Annual generation 17 million units (GWh)

Kurram Garhi Hydropower Plant (KGHPP) is a small, low-head, run-of-the-river hydroelectric power generation station of 4.0 megawatt generation capacity (four units of 1.0 MW each), located at Kurram Garhi, a small town in Bannu KPK province of Pakistan on the flows of Kuchkot Canal from Kurram River. It is a small hydel power generating plant constructed and put in commercial operation on February 1958 with the Average Annual generating capacity of 17 million units (GWh) of least expensive electricity.[1]

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  1. ↑ http://www.wapda.gov.pk/pdf/Development%20Portfolio.pdf
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