Warsak: Rehabilitation of power station under way

ISLAMABAD: The second rehabilitation project of the 55-year old Warsak Hydroelectric Power Station will help regain its reduced generation capacity from 193 megawatt (MW) to 243 MW and achieve another lifecycle of 30 to 40 years. Official sources told APP that the project aims at overcoming the aging problems of the plant and hopes to regain lost generation capacity of 50MW with reliable annual energy generation of 1.144 billion units. The rehabilitation project would be completed in seven years at an estimated cost of Rs22.254 billion. Feasibility studies, detailed engineering design and tender documents have already been completed, while the process to award the construction contract is being initiated. Besides constructing new hydropower projects, rehabilitation and up-gradation of the old hydel power stations are also being carried out under the strategy to help inject low-cost hydel electricity to the national grid.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 18^th, 2015.

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