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Karot Hydropower Project

Pakistan

The 1140th largest power station in the world

732 MW · Capacity

The Karot Hydropower Project is an asphalt-core rockfill gravity dam in Pakistan, with an installed capacity of 720 MW. The project is sponsored by Chinese state-owned company China Three Gorges Corporation (CTG). It is the first investment project of the Silk Road Fund, and is part of the much larger China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). The project was successfully commissioned on June 29, 2022.

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

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