Warsak power station: WAPDA awards Rs317 million consultancy contract
Contract includes preparation of detailed design, tender documents and PC-I.
LAHORE:
The Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) has awarded the contract to carry out a feasibility study for the rehabilitation, upgradation and modernisation of the 243-megawatt (MW) Warsak Hydroelectric Power Station to a joint venture of Canada’s RSW and Pakistan’s DCE.
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.
The Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) has awarded the contract to carry out a feasibility study for the rehabilitation, upgradation and modernisation of the 243-megawatt (MW) Warsak Hydroelectric Power Station to a joint venture of Canada’s RSW and Pakistan’s DCE.
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.