Neelum Jhelum project starts adding electricity to national grid

LAHORE: Neelum Jhelum Hydropower Project has started providing electricity to the National Grid on trial basis. The first unit is contributing 60MW electricity to the system on Monday and will generate electricity to its full capacity to the tune of 242 MW in next two days.

Neelum Jhelum Hydropower Project, located in Azad Jammu & Kashmir, is scheduled to be inaugurated on April 13.

The project has four units with cumulative generation capacity of 969-MW. The first unit has started electricity generation followed by the second, third and fourth units at one month interval respectively.

Published in Business Recorder, 10th April, 2018

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