Neelum-Jhelum Hydropower Station

The Neelum–Jhelum Hydropower Plant is a part-failed run-of-the-river hydroelectric power project in Pakistan administered Kashmir, designed to divert water from the Neelum River to a power station on the Jhelum River. The power station is located 42 km (26 mi) south of Muzaffarabad, and has an installed capacity of 969 MW, which was never achieved. Construction on the project began in 2008 after a Chinese consortium was awarded the construction contract in July 2007. After many years of delays, the first generator was commissioned in April 2018 and the entire project was completed in August 2018 when the fourth and last unit was synchronized with the national grid on 13 August and attained its maximum generation capacity of 969 MW on 14 August 2018. It should generate 5,150 GWh (gigawatt hour) per year at the levelized tariff of Rs 13.50 per unit for 30 years, but it never achieved that target. The plant had managed to reach 1040 MW production on a few occasions, which is beyond its capacity and a rare precedence in hydel power sector.

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