Status Operational Impounds Lower Bari Doab Canal Impound Lower Bāri Doāb Canal | Opening date 1925 Construction began 1920 | |
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Official name Renala Khurd Hydropower Plant Location Renala Khurd, Okara District, Punjab, Pakistan Name Renala Khurd Hydroelectric Plant Owner Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) Type of dam Run-of-the-river hydroelectricity Similar Allai Khwar Hydropower Plant, New Bong Escape Hydropo, Darawat Dam, Patrind Hydropower Plant, Satpara Dam | ||
Renala Khurd Hydropower Plant (RKHPP) is a small, low-head, run-of-the-river hydroelectric generation station with a 1.1 megawatts (1,500 hp) capacity, located at Renala Khurd, Okara District, North-East of Punjab province of Pakistan, on the flows of Lower Bari Doab Canal. It is located about 116 kilometres (72 mi) away from Lahore and 18 kilometres (11 mi) away from the district capital Okara city towards south-west of Lahore on national highway (GT Road) and on Lahore-Karachi main railway line. Having five turbine units, each rated for 22 kW (30 hp) production capacity, this plant was set up to meet the electricity needs of the Mitchells Fruit Farms and Food Processing unit etc.
Renala Khurd Hydral Power Station is one of the most popular hydral stations of Pakistan and it is situated on Canal Lower Bari Doab at Renala Khurd, Punjab, Pakistan. Sir Ganga Ram (1851–1927), a civil engineer and leading philanthropist of his time, established Renala Hydral Power Station in 1925, Pakistan's (Indian Subcontinent's) first Hydropower station.
Sir Ganga Ram, a great engineer and a great philanthropist, born in 1851 in Mangtanwala, a small village of Punjab province in British India, now in Punjab, Pakistan, was a leading philanthropist and agriculturist of his time and established the Renala hydropower station in Renala Khurd, Punjab, in 1925.