With the availability of water, both main units of Khan Khwar Hydropower Station have started generating 68 megawatt (MW) electricity as per their cumulative installed capacity, delivering over 1.1 million units of electricity to the national grid daily, which is equivalent to over Rs 10 million revenue. The third auxiliary unit of 4MW will also go into operation soon.
It is pertinent to mention that Khan Khwar Hydropower Station started its commercial operation in December 2010. The 72-MW Khan Khwar Hydropower Station, one of the three high-head hydropower projects, has been constructed on Khan Khwar (river), a tributary of the River Indus near Besham in Shangla district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Rest of the two projects namely 121-MW Allai Khwar and 130-MW Duber Khwar are also at the advance stage of their completion.