Work on most hydropower projects to start next year: The News

Friday, July 04, 2008
By our correspondent

LAHORE: The Water and Power Development Authority is striving for optimal exploitation of hydropower potential to cope with increasing demand of electricity in the country.

WAPDA Chairman Shakil Durrani stated this during a visit to project sites of Diamer-Basha dam, Dasu, Pattan and on-going three high-head hydropower projects namely Khan, Allai and Dubair Khwar on Thursday.

According to a statement issued here, the WAPDA chairman said nature had blessed Pakistan with the potential of generating more than 54,000 megawatts of hydel electricity.

With a view to injecting low-cost electricity into the national grid, WAPDA was working on feasibility studies and detailed engineering designs of a number of hydropower projects with accumulative capacity of about 25,000MW including Kohala (1,100MW), Bunji (5,400MW) and Dasu (4,000MW), he added.

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