{"id":69843,"date":"2020-08-30T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=69843"},"modified":"2020-08-28T17:16:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T12:16:11","slug":"wapdas-electricity-generation-capacity-hydel-power-highest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wapdas-electricity-generation-capacity-hydel-power-highest.html","title":{"rendered":"WAPDA&#8217;s electricity generation capacity via hydel power at its highest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lahore: The Water &amp; Power Development Authority (WAPDA) on Thursday announced that its hydel power electricity generation capacity had reached its highest mark, a news source reported. Officials revealed that the power generation capacity crossed 8,500 megawatts (MWs) for the first time in Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wapda-hands-over-murunj-dams-feasibility-study-contract-nespak.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WAPDA hands over Murunj Dam\u2019s feasibility study contract to NESPAK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to sources, the last time WAPDA crossed its record hydel power electricity generation was in September 2019 with 8,474MWs. They added that this new high was a result of increased reservoir level at Tarbela and Mangla dams, more water outflows as per indent by the Indus River System Authority (IRSA), and effective operations at the hydel power stations owned by WAPDA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-expedites-construction-seven-hydel-power-projects.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">KP expedites construction in seven hydel power projects<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Official sources also stated that the installed capacity of WAPDA hydel power stations had increased to 9,389MWs. They added that this was possible due to the phased completion of three mega hydropower projects. The officials revealed that these projects included Neelum Jhelum, Golen Gol, and the Tarbela 4<sup>th<\/sup> Extension project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Water &amp; Power Development Authority (WAPDA) on Thursday announced that its hydel power electricity generation capacity had reached its highest mark, a news source reported. Officials revealed that the power generation capacity crossed 8,500 megawatts (MWs) for the first time in Pakistan. Read: WAPDA hands over Murunj Dam\u2019s feasibility study contract to NESPAK According to sources, the last time WAPDA crossed its record hydel power electricity generation was in September 2019 with 8,474MWs. They added that this new high was a result of increased reservoir level at Tarbela and Mangla dams, more water outflows as per indent by the Indus River System Authority (IRSA), and effective operations at the hydel power stations owned by WAPDA. Read: KP expedites construction in seven hydel power projects Official sources also stated that the installed capacity of WAPDA hydel power stations had increased to 9,389MWs. They added that this was possible due to the phased completion of three mega hydropower projects. The officials revealed that these projects included Neelum Jhelum, Golen Gol, and the Tarbela 4th Extension project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":60976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15012,20385],"tags":[38043],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-69843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allied-industries","8":"category-development-projects","9":"tag-details-on-wapdas-electricity-generation-capacity-via-hydel-power-at-its-highest","10":"cat-15012-id","11":"cat-20385-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>WAPDA hydel electricity generation capacity at highest - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Water &amp; Power Development Authority (WAPDA) on Thursday announced that its hydel power electricity generation capacity had reached its highest mark.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/wapdas-electricity-generation-capacity-hydel-power-highest.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WAPDA hydel electricity generation capacity at highest - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Water &amp; 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