{"id":49791,"date":"2016-01-07T11:15:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T11:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=49791"},"modified":"2016-01-07T11:15:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T11:15:06","slug":"chinese-firm-to-develop-pakistans-key-hydro-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/chinese-firm-to-develop-pakistans-key-hydro-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese firm to develop Pakistan&#8217;s key hydro project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese state-owned power company will develop a major hydropower project in Pakistan as part of the implementation of USD 46 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor connecting the two countries through Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK).<\/p>\n<p>Three Gorges Corporation (CTGC) will develop the Kohala Hydropower Project, the firm&#8217;s biggest investment in the Pakistani hydropower market. It is expected to have an installed capacity of 1.1 million kilowatts, state-run Xinhua news agency reported today.<\/p>\n<p>The project is part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, a 3,000-km network of roads, railways and energy infrastructure to assist development in Pakistan and boost growth for the Chinese border economy.<\/p>\n<p>In September, CTGC registered a subsidiary for the project in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>A Pakistani government supporting letter for the project was issued last week, CTGC said.<\/p>\n<p>Established in 1993, CTGC is &#8220;a clean energy group focusing on large-scale hydropower development and operation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It manages the development and operation of the Three Gorges Project, the world&#8217;s largest hydropower project in terms of installed capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese state-owned power company will develop a major hydropower project in Pakistan as part of the implementation of USD 46 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor connecting the two countries through Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK). Three Gorges Corporation (CTGC) will develop the Kohala Hydropower Project, the firm&#8217;s biggest investment in the Pakistani hydropower market. It is expected to have an installed capacity of 1.1 million kilowatts, state-run Xinhua news agency reported today. The project is part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, a 3,000-km network of roads, railways and energy infrastructure to assist development in Pakistan and boost growth for the Chinese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-power"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}