Electricity production: ‘Two new power houses to be built’

DIAMER: Two new power houses with a cost of Rs370 million will be set up in Diamer, said the Executive Engineer Water and Power, Sher Bahadur Khan on Tuesday. He said a power house, having a capacity production of one megawatt, will be set up at Gase valley while the other one, of similar capacity, be built at Manical Dareal valley. He said Rs180 million were allocated for the Gase Power House while Rs190 million for the Manical Dareal Power House. He further said the construction of these two power houses would help to control power outages in Chilas. Khan said a tender for laying transmission lines from Thor Power House to Chilas city and installation of new transformers in the area will also be announced soon.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 13^th, 2011.