ISLAMABAD – The third unit of Golen Gol Hydropower Project in districtChitral will start functioning from next month.
The Project Director Golen Gol Hydropower Project Muhammad Javed Afridisaid that project will be completed at a cost of about thirty billionrupees.
The first two units of the project have already been completed.
With the completion of the third unit, the power project will start workingaccording to its full capacity of generating one hundred and eight-megawattelectricity.
Earlier this year, Former Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi hadinaugurated Golen Gol Hydropower Project.
The total generation capacity of the project is 108MW with three generatingunits – each of them having a capacity of 36MW.
The project has been constructed on Golen Gol – a tributary of River Mastuj– near Chitral.