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Nandipur Hydropower Plant

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Status
  
Operational

Impounds
  
Upper Chenab Canal

Opening date
  
March 1963

Impound
  
Upper Chenab Canal

Official name
  
Nandipur Hydropower Project

Location
  
Gujranwala, Punjab, Pakistan

Name
  
Nandipur Hydroelectric Plant

Owner
  
Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA)

Type of dam
  
Run-of-the-river hydroelectricity

Similar
  
New Bong Escape Hydropo, Allai Khwar Hydropower Plant, Nai Gaj Dam, Darawat Dam, Patrind Hydropower Plant

Nandipur Hydropower Plant (NHPP) is a small, low-head, run-of-the-river hydroelectric power generation station of 13.8 megawatt generation capacity (three units of 4.6 MW each), located at Nandipur near Gujranwala, Punjab province of Pakistan, on the flows of Upper Chenab Canal. It is located at 32°90'0N 74°11' 0E. It is a small hydel power generating plant constructed and put in commercial operation on March 1963 with the Average Annual generating capacity of 33.66 million units (GWh) of least expensive electricity.

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