Suki Kinari Hydropower Station’s first unit begins

China Energy Construction Overseas Investment Co., Ltd. The first unit (Section 4) of Pakistan’s Suki Kinari Hydropower Station, the largest hydropower plant capitalized and built by
China Power Construction Foreign Investment Corporation, SK Hydro Co., Ltd. and employees from the construction department participated to witness this phase together. Resident military representatives and the owner’s engineering team were also present at the launch ceremony.
Unit 4 of the SK Hydropower Plant has successfully passed several tests since commissioning, operating normally and meeting design requirements. Finally, Section 4 will conduct dozens of tests, including temperature stability tests and extreme tests, to ensure that all device specifications meet design performance standards, which will provide a solid basis for entering the test phase. .
Before starting the wet test, SK Hydro Co., Ltd. together with all the construction departments involved, carefully prepare to fill and empty the test protocol, monitor its progress in real-time and effectively solve problems. the effect of filling and draining water thus providing an important guarantee for the success of the wet test.
China Energy Construction Foreign Investment Co., Ltd.
The start of wet testing for the first phase marks the completion of the final sprint phase of the project’s construction, which is a step closer to operational and power generation goals.
The SK hydroelectric power plant is located on the Kunha River in the Mansehra region of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province in northwestern Pakistan. It is a flagship project in the first phase of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) priority project and is equipped with four pulse units with a total capacity of 884 MW.
Once completed, the project could provide 3.212 billion kilowatt-hours of clean electricity annually, covering one-fifth of Pakistan’s electricity gap.