Warsak power station: WAPDA awards Rs317 million consultancy contract
According to a statement on Wednesday, the contract includes the preparation of detailed design, tender documents and PC-I of the project.
It said that the total cost of the consultancy services agreement was about Rs317 million, including the foreign exchange component of 3.343 million Canadian dollars.
The assignment is scheduled to be completed in one year, it added.
Wapda General Manger (Hydel Development) Muhammad Javed Akhtar, RSW Asia Vice President Claudio Vissa and DCE Managing Director Mujeeb Ahmad signed the agreement at Wapda House in the presence of the trade commissioner of the High Commission of Canada and senior Wapda officials.
As part of its least-cost energy generation programme, Wapda plans to carry out the rehabilitation, up-gradation and modernisation of electrical and mechanical equipment of Warsak Hydroelectric Power Station to ensure its reliable and sustainable operation at the total installed capacity of 243MW.
The electrical and mechanical equipment of the existing units, having spent 50 years (units 1-4) and 30 years (units 5-6) of their useful life, is not in good shape, the statement said.
The feasibility study will recommend remedial measures to overcome the defects in civil structures and conduct sedimentation management studies, it said.
Warsak Hydel Power Station is located on Kabul River, about 30 kilometres from Peshawar. The project, financed by the Canadian government, was completed under Colombo Plan in two phases.
The first phase, completed in 1960, consisted of the construction of the dam and irrigation tunnels besides the installation of four power-generating units, each with a 40MW capacity, with 132KV transmission systems.
Two additional power-generating units, each with a 41.48MW capacity, were added in 1980-81 in the second phase.
The total installed capacity of the power station became nearly 243MW, the statement said.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 15th, 2011.
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I fail to understand why invest so much on an ageing horse? I am sure the system has outlived whatever life remained of it and if you are talking about renovating it to have optimum output, i wish you luck.
I think the better idea would be to install new machinery But then we have issues of all sorts, just wonder why everyone is/was [in political system] so against the build of new Dams, after all the flooding we have see.
Any appropriate answer for this?
I visited this place some years back. The dam is sedimented and no longer goes upto 243MW. Its more like around 150MW now. This contract is probably for life extension of whatever remains at the power station.