Khan Khwar Hydropower Plant
Khan Khwar Hydropower Plant is a run-of-the-river project located near the town of Besham in Shangla District on the Khan Khwar River, a right bank tributary of Indus River in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. It is approximately 265 km from the federal capital of Islamabad and 350 km from provincial capital of Peshawar in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The total electricity generation capacity of the Khan Khwar Project is . There are two vertical Francis turbine units of 34 MW each and one unit of 4 MW installed at Khan Khwar Hydroelectric Station  with the average annual generation capacity of 595 million units (GWh) of cheap electricity. These turbines are manufactured by Dongfang Electric Machinery Co. Ltd. This project is completed by the technical assistance of Chinese corporations (Sinohydro Corporation via a consortium with China Water Resources Beifang Investigation, Design and Research Co. Ltd). Construction of Khan Khwar Hydropower Plant was commenced in April 2003 and the project was completed in April 2012. Power House is in commercial operation since November 2010. The project was officially inaugurated on 14 July 2012 by Prime Minister of Pakistan Raja Pervez Ashraf. The total cost of  the project is about PKR 10.73 billion out of which PKR 5.049 billion is accounted for foreign exchange component. Dam: Type: RCC Length: 112 m. Height: 46 m. Design Discharge: 29 Cusecs Design Head: 244 m.