The Khan Khwar Hydropower Plant is a

run-of-the-river Run-of-river hydroelectricity (ROR) or run-of-the-river hydroelectricity is a type of hydroelectric generation plant whereby little or no water storage is provided. Run-of-the-river power plants may have no water storage at all or a limited amo ...

project located near the town of

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District on the Khan Khwar River, a right bank tributary of the

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province, Pakistan. It is approximately 265 km from the federal capital of

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and 350 km from provincial capital of

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. The total electricity generation capacity of the Khan Khwar project is . There are two vertical Francis turbine units of 34 MW and one unit of 4 MW installed at the Khan Khwar Hydroelectric Station, with an average annual generation capacity of 595 million units (GWh) of cheap electricity. These turbines are manufactured by Dongfang Electric Machinery Co. Ltd. The project was completed by the technical assistance of

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corporations (Sinohydro Corporation via a consortium with China Water Resources Beifang Investigation, Design and Research Co. Ltd). Construction of the Khan Khwar Hydropower Plant commenced in April 2003, and the project was completed in April 2012. The power house commenced commercial operations in November 2010. The project was officially inaugurated on 14 July 2012 by Prime Minister of Pakistan

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. The total cost of the project was about PKR 10.73 billion, out of which PKR 5.049 billion accounted for the foreign exchange component. Dam:
Type: RCC
Length: 112 m.
Height: 46 m.
Design discharge: 29 cusecs
Design head: 244 m.

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