WAPDA plans 20 GW of hydro generation

• 13 years ago (2010-09-24)
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The Pakistani Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) is planning to construct hydro-electric projects with a capacity of 20 GW during the next five years, according to authority chairman Shakil Durrani.

Addressing the inaugural session of a two-day training workshop on the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Mr Durrani said that Pakistan is blessed with a hydropower potential of about 100 GW and that hydropower’s green credentials could mean it plays a pivotal role in earning more carbon credits through CDM in the international environmental market. These credits are needed by the WAPDA to make new generation projects financially viable, he added.

Mr Durrani also said WAPDA would start the construction of Diamer-Basha Dam this year. Additional planned project locations include Kurram Tangi, Golen Gol, Dasu, Bunji, Munda and the Tarbela 4th extension.

The CDM training workshop, a first of its kind in Pakistan, was being organised by WAPDA in collaboration with CVDT Consulting BV, Netherlands and EBSF Research and Consulting, Pakistan. Delegates from CDM Cell, Ministry of Water & Power and WAPDA along with the representatives of Environment Protection Agencies of Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtoonkhawa, Punjab, Sindh, AJK and Gilgit-Baltistan were also in attendance.

Earlier, Mr Durrani also confirmed that WAPDA has so far forwarded 17 hydropower projects for its CDM programme, but also commented that Pakistan needed to intensify its efforts to develop and submit high quality CDM projects in order to keep up with its peers who also wish to procure additional carbon credits through clean energy generation projects.