Pakistan’s WAPDA Awards Contract for Water Project to G E Hydro France

• #USAID, AFD Extend #Cooperation for of Water Project in Pakistan

Islamabad: Pakistan’s Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) has awarded a contract of water project development, worth Rs11.92 billion, to G E Hydro France for Package XI of Mangla Refurbishment, Radio Pakistan reported on Wednesday.

The said contract was signed General Manager (Hydel) Development, WAPDA, Ihsan Ullah and representative of G E Hydro France Abubakar in Islamabad.

According to official sources, the contract includes manufacturing, supply, installation and commissioning of units 9 and 10 of Mangla Refurbishment Project.

According to a WAPDA spokesperson, the authority is implementing Mangla Refurbishment Project with an approved PC-I cost of 52.224 billion rupees.

Mangla Dam is a multipurpose project, primarily designed for irrigation. The other by products are power generation, fish Culture, tourism and navigation.

The Project is beingcarried out in various phases, wherein the generating units are to be refurbished by closing down one tunnel (two generating units) at a time.

The refurbishment works have been divided into 11 different packages. Prior to signing of Package-XI, as many as nine other packages have already been awarded, while works on four packages have been completed.

Refurbishment of the first two units has been completed in 2022, while refurbishment of all 10 generating units is likely to be accomplished by year 2026-27.

Mangla Refurbishment Project, on its completion, will enhance generation capacity of the existing Mangla Hydel Power Station from 1000 megawatt (MW) to 1310 MW,thus adding 310 MW additional power with average 1610 million units of additional energy per annum to the National Grid.

It may be mentioned that the USAID is providing US$150 million as grant and AFD is providing Euro 90 million as loan for Mangla Refurbishment Project, while rest of the amount is being arranged by WAPDA through loans and from its own resources.

GE Hydro France designs and manufactures energy solutions and offers power plant construction, turbines, generators.

By: M.A

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