Construction work is currently underway on all 14 sites of the Mohmand Dam project. Scheduled for completion in 2026-27, the dam will store 1.29 million acre-feet of water and generate 800MW of hydropower. Additionally, it will supply 300 million gallons per day of drinking water to Peshawar.
The Mohmand dam project is designed to be a multi-purpose project, storing 1.2 million acre-feet of water and helping to mitigate floods in Peshawar, Charsadda, and Nowshera. It will supplement 160,000 acres of existing land and irrigate 18,237 acres of new land in Mohmand and Charsadda. The dam’s installed generation capacity of 800MW will contribute 2.86 billion units of low-cost and environmentally friendly hydroelectricity per year to the National Grid. The project will also provide significant socio-economic benefits, including Rs. 51.6 billion in annual benefits and Rs. 4.5 billion allocated for Confidence Building Measures (CBM) in the project area.
The Mohmand Dam Project is co-financed by the Saudi Fund for Development, OPEC, Islamic Development Bank, and the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development.
Mohmand Dam is being constructed on the River Swat in District Mohmand of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Voith Hydro Shanghai Limited (VHS) was contracted back in October 2020 to supply 200MW Francis turbine generator units and online monitoring systems for the project under a contract signed with China Gezhouba Group Corporation (CGGC).
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