CPEC Suki Kinari Hydropower project successfully completes dam capping
The Suki Kinari Hydropower project, as part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), has achieved a significant milestone with the completion of the dam capping. This accomplishment indicates the project’s entry into a new phase of construction. The successful capping of the concrete dam on the Kunhar River in the Mansehra district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province will propel the construction progress of the power station. Once operational, the project is expected to generate approximately 3.21 billion kilowatt-hours of clean electricity annually.
ISLAMABAD, May 15 (Xinhua) — Pakistan’s Suki Kinari Hydropower project in the northwestern part of the country achieved the dam capping on Monday, marking it entering a new construction stage.
The successful capping of the concrete dam on the Kunhar River will help advance the construction progress of the power station under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), located in the Mansehra district of the South Asian country’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Calling the capping a key milestone of the 884-megawatt hydropower project, Chen Jiangbo, deputy manager of the Suki Kinari Hydropower project of China Gezhouba Group Company Ltd., which invests in and implements the project, attributed the achievement to the joint efforts made by the Chinese and Pakistani constructors despite multiple challenges.
The hydropower project started construction in January 2017 with a total investment of about 1.96 billion U.S. dollars. It will significantly optimize Pakistan’s energy structure, boosting the country’s economic and social development, said the Chinese deputy manager.
Once getting functional, the CPEC project will annually generate some 3.21 billion kilowatt-hours of clean electricity, replacing 1.28 million tons of coal and reducing 2.52 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year, he added.
Launched in 2013, the CPEC is a corridor linking Pakistan’s Gwadar port with Kashgar in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, highlighting energy, transport and industrial cooperation.
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