PESHAWAR – The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government will build a mega ‘SpatGah’ hydropower project with a capacity of 496 megawatts in districtKohistan to provide inexpensive electricity to industrial, domestic andagriculture consumers.
“The KP energy department has completed a feasibility study of the proposedproject that after completion would generate 496 MW affordable energy,”officials in KP Energy Department told APP on Monday.
The provincial government had already signed a memorandum of understanding(MoU) with Korean Hydro Nuclear Power (KHNP) Company here at Peshawar inthis regard.
It would be constructed under public-private partnership mode. It merits tomention here that the project is located near Dasu in Kohistan district.
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The memorandum of understanding (MoU) for initiating the project was signedby Secretary Energy and Power Muhammad Salim Khan and Chief Executive ofthe Korean company KHNP on November 6 last.
The project will be completed in 5 to 6 years
