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Shadiwal Hydropower Plant

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Status
  
Operational

Impounds
  
Upper Jhelum Canal

Opening date
  
June 1961

Impound
  
Upper Jhelum Canal

Shadiwal Hydropower Plant

Official name
  
Shadiwal Hydropower Plant

Location
  
Shadiwal, Gujrat District, Punjab, Pakistan

Name
  
Shadiwal Hydroelectric Plant

Owner
  
Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA)

Similar
  
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Shadiwal Hydropower Plant (SHPP) is a small, low-head hydroelectric generation station of 13.5 megawatt generation capacity (two units of 6.75 MW each), located near Gujrat city at Shadiwal 100 kilometer North-West of Lahore, Punjab province of Pakistan, on the flows of Upper Jhelum Canal. It is a small hydropower generating plant constructed and put in commercial operation on June 1961 with the Average Annual generating capacity of 42.67 million units of least expensive electricity.

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