Hydropower project Updates

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Naulong dam in Balochistan


LAHORE: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has agreed to provide Rs26.6 billion for the construction of the much-delayed Naulong dam in Balochistan after the provincial government agreed to issue an NOC next week allowing the Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) to execute it.

“ADB has agreed to fund the project, as it has included it in its business plan,” a spokesman for the bank told Dawn on Saturday while confirming the development.

“The bank is of the view that the provincial government doesn’t have the capacity to execute the project in a professional manner. And if Wapda executes this, it is ready to fund it,” the Wapda official said.

After this development, the Naulong dam project is no more in the funding ambit of the federal government’s Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP), a senior official in Wapda told Dawn requesting anonymity.

Located on Mula River--about 30 km from Gandava Town in Balochistan Jhal Magsi district, the 4.4-megawatt Naulong project was planned to be launched in 2009 with completion in 2012. However, the project—a zoned earth fill dam with 186 feet height and gross and live storage capacity of 242,163 and 199,956 acres feet—remained stuck for about nine years and became a shuttlecock between the Planning Commission and the provincial government on various issues related to funding, capacity, execution etc. Wapda, which was too engaged in the process, was also directed in the past to explore financing avenues for the project. However, the international donors, especially the ADB didn’t agree to fund the project if it executed by the Balochistan government.

He said after the Balochistan government’s failure in securing funds from the donors for the project, the federal government finally agreed to fund the project under PSDP. However, it, too, failed to allocate adequate funds in this regard. And finally, the government started pushing Balochistan government to withdraw from executing the project, paving the way for securing funds from the ADB.

The Wapda management one and half years back took up the issue with the government besides engaging the ADB in the process which sought a couple of more studies required before execution of the project.

“Since the detailed design and feasibility study are already completed, Wapda got two more studies carried out according to guidelines of the ADB.

The official said Wapda would also contribute some money in the form of equity in the project’s funding.

 

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Main Tunnel of 4320 MW Dasu Hydro-power project inaugurated

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Kurram Tangi Dam

Connecting channel to silt excluder from weir, Sheratala canal head regulator, Flushing drain concrete and silt excluder concrete are in progress.

The project is located across Kurram river in North Waziristan Agency about 14 KMs upstream of Kurram Garhi Headworks and 32 KMs North of Bannu City, KP.

Salient Features ·

Dam Height 322 ft ·
Gross Storage 1.20 MAF ·
Live Storage 0.90 MAF ·
Installed Capacity 83.4 MW (350 Gwh)
New Command Area (84,380 acres) (Sheratalla Canal 12,300 acres, Spaira Ragha Canal 4,080 acres, Thal Canal 68,000 acres)
Supplementing Existing Civil 107,500} 170,500} & Marwat Canals 278,000 acres Stage-I Kaitu Weir Works and its allied structures are to be constructed across, Kaitu River, which is located near Spinwam, 28 KM from Mirali Tehsil H.Q. of North Waziristan Agency.
Salient Features of Stage-I · Kaitu Weir Height 18 ft · Feeder Tunnel Discharge Capacity 633.4 cusecs · Spaira Ragha Canal (CCA) 4,080 acres · Sheratalla Canal (CCA) 12,300 acres · Installed Capacity 18.9 MW Commenc. Date (Stage-I) July 2016
Completion Date April 2019
Supervision Consultant M/s MM Pakistan – PES - DMC Joint Venture Project Contractors M/s FWO-DESCON Joint Venture.

 

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4,300MW Dasu Dam to Cost an Extra Rs. 18 Billion Due to Delayed Land Acquisition

The project steering committee (PSC) of 4,300 MW Dasu hydropower project is set to meet on January 8 next year to discuss and approve the special committee’s recommendations for quickly resolving the issue of land acquisition for the power project.

Media reports said that the special committee aims to quickly resolve the land acquisition issue and has prepared its preliminary report.

The report will be submitted to the Steering Committee and if approved, the government will have to bear an additional Rs. 18 billion cost.

The special committee has prepared the report after holding a series of meetings with the representatives of people affected by the project, local politicians and stakeholders.

Sources said that a petition signed by the representatives of affected people has also been compiled by the committee.

Located on the Indus river, 240 km upstream from Tarbela dam, and in the Kohistan area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the project is being funded by the World Bank which has extended deadline by one year for utilization of the funds approved in 2014.

The main reason for the non-utilisation of the funds is attributed to land acquisition..

 

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Kurram Tangi Dam
Location ... The project is located across Kurram river in North Waziristan Agency about 14 KMs upstream of Kurram Garhi Headworks and 32 KMs North of Bannu City.

Salient Features
· Dam Height 322 ft

· Gross Storage 1.20 MAF

· Live Storage 0.90 MAF

· Installed Capacity 83.4 MW (350 Gwh)

 

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Tunnels and the powerhouse under construction at the site of Mangla Dam 1960's

 

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Work on the construction of Mohmand Dam will start in January 2019

A spokesman of Water and Power Development Authority told the dam will be completed at a cost of three hundred and nine billion rupees by 2024.

On completion, it will generate 800 MW electricity besides bringing more than seventeen thousand acres’ barren land under cultivation.

The Dam will also solve the problem of water scarcity in Mohmand and adjacent districts, in addition, to help in overcoming shortage of electricity in the country

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102 MW Gulpur Hydro Power Project, Kotli, Azad Jammu & Kashmir

Total capacity reservoir: 21,893,000 m3 (17,749 acre·ft)

Gulpur Hydropower Project is the third independent hydropower project in Pakistan. Korean company has also been awarded other contracts to build hydropower plants in the country on BOOT basis

 

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The Karot Hydropower Project is an under construction run-of-river concrete-core rockfill gravity dam in Pakistan with an installed capacity of 720 MW.

The Karot Hydropower Station in Pakistan is the first investment project of the Silk Road Fund, is part of the much larger CPEC China–Pakistan Economic Corridor, and is expected to be completed in 2020.

Status: Under construction
Construction began: January 2016
Construction cost: $1.42 billion
Commission date: Apr 2021
Turbines: 4 x 190 MW Francis-type
Installed capacity : 720 MW

Reservoir Total capacity: 164.5 million
Maximum length: 27 km (17 mi)
Normal elevation: 461 m (1,512 ft)

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WAPDA completes three major hydel projects in 2018

ISLAMABAD: The Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) steadfastly moved ahead during the year 2018 to regain its past glory, as it successfully completed and commissioned three long-delayed mega hydropower projects with cumulative generation capacity of 2,487 megawatts (MW).

With commissioning of the 108MW Golen Gol, the 1,410MW Tarbela 4th Extension and the 969MW Neelum-Jhelum hydropower projects in 2018, the installed generation capacity of Wapda hydroelectric power surged to 9,389 MW from 6,902MW, registering an increase of 36 per cent in one year.

Prior to this, Wapda could manage to take its hydel generation to 6,902MW in 59 years since its inception in 1958.
Wapda contributed 25.63 billion units of hydel power to the national grid during 2018 despite the fact that water flows in 2018 remained historically low. The contribution of hydel electricity to the system greatly helped the country in meeting electricity needs and lowering the tariff for the consumers.

It is worth mentioning that hydropower is the cheapest and the most environment-friendly source of electricity. According to the data of Pakistan Electric Power Company (Pepco) regarding per unit cost of electricity generated from various sources during fiscal year 2017-18, it is Rs2.22 for Wapda hydel, which is far less than per unit cost of electricity generated from all other sources.

Tarbela 4th Extension: WAPDA completes load rejection test of all units

In comparison to hydel electricity, the cost is Rs8.91 per unit for gas, Rs16.16 for residual furnace oil (RFO), Rs16.45 for high speed diesel (HSD), Rs10.89 for coal, Rs8.78 for nuclear, Rs16.35 for wind, Rs8.60 for bagasse, Rs16.83 for solar, Rs11.30 for re-gasified natural gas (RLNG) and Rs10.67 per unit for electricity imported from Iran.

Apart from its achievements in the hydropower sector, Wapda also succeeded in achieving major targets to construct mega water reservoirs in the country. Resultantly, construction of Mohmand dam is scheduled to commence soon.

It will be the first mega dam project to be undertaken in the five decades after construction of Tarbela Dam in the 1970s. In addition, construction work on Diamer Bhasha Dam project is also likely to start in mid-2019.

The Mohmand and Diamer Bhasha dams will store 9.3MAF of water and generate 5,300MW of low-cost hydel power.

 

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Patrind Hydro Power Plant 147 MW, AJK.. Latest Pic

Pic Credit : Murtaza Ali‎

 

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83.4 MW Kurram Tangi Dam under construction KTDP STAGE-1

 

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World Bank rates progress on Dasu project as 'moderately unsatisfactory'

ISLAMABAD: The World Bank has lowered the 2,160-megawatt Dasu hydropower project’s rating to ‘moderately unsatisfactory’ after Pakistan could not resolve outstanding issues in the past over two years, which will now push the completion period beyond 2021.

It was the second downward revision in the project’s implementation rating over the past two and a half years, indicating the systemic bureaucratic weaknesses that have started affecting strategic projects. Last time, the World Bank had cut the progress rating to moderately satisfactory in June 2016.

The previous federal government had failed to resolve a host of land-related issues and could not ensure safety measures, leading to casualties. “The implementation progress of the DHP-I has remained slower than expected,” said the latest implementation status report of the World Bank-funded project, released in the outgoing week.

 

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870 MW Suki Kinari Hydropower Project Khyber Pakhtunkhwa KP




ISLAMABAD: Suki Kinari Hydropower Project (SKHPP) will become operational in 2022 and ensure jobs for 3000 local residents under recruitment plan in 2019 and 2020.

Suki Kinari (SK), a run-of-the-river largest private sector hydropower project located on Kunhar River in the Kaghan Valley of District Mansehra, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, will add 870 MW to the national grid by December 2022.

 

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Saudi Arabia to give 675 million Riyals grant for Mohmand, Diamer Dams

Saudi Arabia has decided to grant funds to Pakistan for Mohmand and Diamer Bhasha Dam projects and Islamabad and Riyadh will sign MoU in this regard during the visit of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman.

Sources said Pakistan and Saudi Arabia will sign MoU of 1.270 billion Saudi Riyal for five energy projects in the country.

A summery regarding Saudi Funds for Development and MOU in this regard will be presented in the federal cabinet tomorrow.

According to the document, Saudi Arabia will provide 375 million Saudi Riyal for Diamer-Bhasha Dam and 300 million Saudi Riyal for Mohmand Dams