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Annual generation. 17,395 GWh (2020) Tarbela Dam (Pashto: د توربېلې بند, Hindko: تربیلا بند) is an earth-filled dam along the Indus River in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. It is mainly located in Haripur Tehsil. [ 1 ] It is about 20 km (10 mi) from the city of Swabi KPK, 105 km (65 mi) northwest of Islamabad, and ...
Naulong Dam – is an embankment dam currently under construction on the Mula River, about 30 km from Gandawah City in Jhal Magsi district of Balochistan, Pakistan. The zoned earth-filled dam is 186 feet high with a gross storage of 0.242 MAF and a command area of 47,000 acres. It has a hydro power capacity of 4.4 MW.
About 1,600 cubic meter per second of water is diverted from the Indus River near the town of Ghazi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa about 7 km downstream of Tarbela Dam (4,888 MW). It then runs through a 100 metre wide and 9 metre deep open power channel down to the village of Barotha where the power complex is located.
The dam was expanded in the era of Pervez Musharraf but it did not enhance the capacity of electric generation except increasing the level of water in the dam. [citation needed] In November 2012, the United States announced a grant of $150 million for the expansion of the Mangla Dam powerhouse. Under the project, $400 million would be spent on ...
Thakot Hydropower Project. Battagram District, KPK. 34°45′N 72°55′E / 34.750°N 72.917°E / 34.750; 72.917 (Thakot) 4,000. Feasibility studies to be completed by Dec 2017. MOU signed with China’s National Energy Administration [25][26][27] Cost estimate $6 billion. [31] Phandar Hydropower Project.
Annual generation. 19.028 TWh (est.) Diamer-Bhasha Dam is a concreted-filled gravity dam, in the preliminary stages of construction, on the River Indus between Kohistan district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Diamer district in Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan administered Kashmir. Its foundation stone was laid by the then Prime Minister of Pakistan in 1998.
The Kalabagh Dam (Urdu: کالا باغ ڈيم, Sindhi: ڪالاباغ ڊيم) is a proposed hydroelectric dam on the Indus River at Kalabagh in the Mianwali District, Punjab, Pakistan, which has been intensely debated along ethnic and regional lines for over 40 years. [citation needed] If constructed, the dam could generate 3,600 megawatts (MW ...
An embankment dam is a large artificial dam. It is typically created by the placement and compaction of a complex semi- plastic mound of various compositions of soil or rock. It has a semi-pervious waterproof natural covering for its surface and a dense, impervious core. This makes the dam impervious to surface or seepage erosion. [1]