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Kurram Garhi Hydropower Plant

Pakistan

The 3496th largest power station in the world

4 MW · Capacity

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.

Power station data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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