Pakistan Hydropower Project Description Development Challenge Purpose: To facilitate a sustainable expansion in In recent years, the country’s demand for power has risen so Pakistan's electricity generation capacity. dramatically that supply can’t keep up. Load shedding has Expected Results (include): The hydropower caused widespread blackouts that reached peak levels in project will shift Pakistan’s power mix away from 2011 when power cuts occurred in homes, businesses, expensive imported fuel oil needed to run thermal factories and industries for an average of eight hours daily. In plants, to cleaner, more environmentally friendly sources of power. Adding 1,410 megawatts of summer, cuts reached 16 to 20 hours in some areas. The generating capacity to the current hydropower disruption is causing widespread protests, even violence, capacity of 3,478 megawatts. particularly in major cities like Karachi and populous areas like IBRD Financing: $400 million Punjab province. Project Description The Tarbela Dam, built in 1974, is one of the world’s largest dams and supplies 16% of Pakistan’s electricity. As demand for power has increased, the World Bank is helping Pakistan expand the dam’s generating capacity. The Project will strengthen the Water and Power Development Authority's (WAPDA's) capacity to develop the country's hydropower resources. The new hydropower plant will be added to an existing water tunnel at the northeast end of the dam. © World Bank For more information: http://www.worldbank.org/projects/P115893/tarbela-fourth-extension-hydropower-project?lang=en 51