Kurram Garhi Hydropower Plant

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Kurram Garhi Hydropower Plant
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Location of Kurram Garhi Hydropower Plant in Pakistan
Official nameKurram Garhi Hydropower Plant
Location Kurram Garhi, Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Coordinates 33°02′00.48″N70°31′56.09″E / 33.0334667°N 70.5322472°E / 33.0334667; 70.5322472
StatusOperational
Opening dateFebruary 1958
Owner(s) Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA)
Dam and spillways
Type of dam run-of-the-river
ImpoundsKuchkot Canal from Kurram River
Kurram Garhi Hydropower Plant
Operator(s) WAPDA
Commission dateFebruary 1958
Turbines 4 x 1.00 MW
Installed capacity 4 MW
Annual generation 17 million units (GWh)

Kurram Garhi Hydropower Plant (KGHPP) is a small, low-head, run-of-the-river hydroelectric power generation station at Kurram Garhi, a small town in Bannu in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The station with a 4-megawatt generation capacity (four units of 1 MW each), is located on the flows of Kuchkot Canal from Kurram River. It is a small hydel power generating plant constructed and put in commercial operation in February 1958 with the average annual electricity generation capacity of 17 million units (GWh) of least expensive electricity. [1]

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  1. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-07-21. Retrieved 2014-08-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)