Keyal Khwar HEP
The Keyal Khwar project is a high head hydropower scheme that will supply Pakistan's national grid with base load during the high flow summer season and peak load during the low flow winter season. The project exploits the head difference between the Keyal Khwar and the Indus River in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province. The hydropower scheme will be credited with displacing the emission of just over 200,000 tonnes of CO2 per year that would otherwise be released into the environment by a thermal power plant.
Client:
Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA)
Period:
2007 - 2008
Services:
- Review of existing study
- Environmental/social impact study
- Additional topographical and geological site investigations
- Hydrological analysis
- Optimisation studies
- Definition of design criteria
- Feasibility design
- Cost estimate
- Construction planning
- Economic and financial analysis
Technical data:
- Installed capacity 2x61 MW= 122 MW
- Gross head approx. 700 m
- Turbine type Pelton
- Annual average energy 426 GWh
- Headrace tunnel 7,000 m
- Pressure shaft 612 m
- Dam height 37 m