Status Operational Impounds Upper Chenab Canal | Opening date May 1959 | |
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Official name Chichonki Malian Hydropower Plant Name Chichonki Malian Hydroelectric Plant Type of dam Run-of-the-river hydroelectricity Similar Allai Khwar Hydropower Plant, Nai Gaj Dam, New Bong Escape Hydropo, Darawat Dam | ||
Chichonki Malian Hydropower Plant (CMHPP) is a small, low-head, run-of-the-river hydroelectric generation station of 13.2 megawatts (17,700 hp) generation capacity (three units of 4.4 megawatts (5,900 hp)each), located at Sheikhupura, about 35 kilometres (22 mi) north-west of Lahore, Punjab province of Pakistan, on the flows of Upper Chenab Canal. It is a small hydro power generating plant constructed and put in commercial operation on May 1959 with the average annual generating capacity of 22.88 million units (GWh) of least expensive electricity.
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