Khan Khwar power project will add 72 megawatt of electricity to the national grid.
Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf inaugurated the seventy-two megawatt Khan Khwar Hydropower project at Bisham in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Saturday.
Addressing the inaugural ceremony‚ he said the Government is focusing on hydropower generation projects to produce inexpensive and environment friendly power.
He said with the completion of Khan Khwar Hydropwer project‚ seventy-two megawatt electricity has been added to the national grid.
The Prime Minister said the demand of power is increasing 8 to 10 percent annually and we will have to meet this challenge to plug the demand and supply gap.
Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Barrister Masood Kausar‚ Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti and Minister for Water and Power Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar also attended the ceremony.
On this occasion the Prime Minister was briefed about the salient features of the project which has started power generation on an experimental basis.
The project costing about eleven billion rupees has been constructed on the Khan Khwar right bank tributary of Indus River in District Shangla.
Main components of the project include a forty-six meters high and 112 meters long dam‚ about five kilometers long tunnel‚ a power house and a switchyard.
The project has been connected with the national grid through 132 and 220 kilovolts transmission line constructed for three high-head hydropower projects.
Khan Khwar Hydropower project is a part of energy generation plan of Water and Power Development Authority that is being executed on priority basis to meet the growing demand of electricity in the country.
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