Friday, August 26, 2011

Ghazi Barotha Hydropower Project, capacity etc

*Electricity generation capacity - 1450-MW
*Commissioned in August 2003
*Contributed about 53 billion units of electricity to the National Grid  to-date. 
*Registered revenues of Rs. 226.5 billion to the national exchequer to-date.
*Average cost of electricity generated by GBHP during the last eight years remained Rs. 1.08/unit, in comparison with Rs. 5.36/unit from thermal plants during the same period.
*Located on the River Indus downstream of Tarbela Dam.
*Cost of construction was about Rs. 97 billion.

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