PESHAWAR: Three electricity generation plants of 55.6MW in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will be completed by December 2015.
According to an Energy and Power Department of KP, the projects include Machi Mardan with generation capacity of 2.6MW and Ranolia Kohistan with 17MW and Swat Dararkhwar with 36MW capacity.
Work on Machi Mardan and Ranolia Kohistan has been already completed and would be inaugurated shortly, he said, adding work on Swat Darakhwar was in full swing and would be completed by end of this year. The completion of these projects would help provide inexpensive electricity besides irrigating thousands of acres of barren land in the province.
He said the government is giving top priority to energy and electricity sector and would spend more than Rs1.40 billion on 39 energy projects in the upcoming fiscal year with focus on construction of Naran dam with power generation capacity of 188MW in district Manshera, construction of power stations of Gorband at Shangla district, Nand Bahar at Batagram, Mojigram Shagoor, Astar Rabooni, Arkari Gol at Chitral that would generate 206MW electricity upon completion.
Small power stations at Shringal Dir Upper, Patrak Barikot in Swat and Segokatch would also be constructed that would generate 171MW electricity. Furthermore, the Govt would construct 10microhydle power plants on canals besides setting up of a technical laboratory in the province.
