The Darunta Dam ( ps, درونټه برېښناکوټ) is located on the
Kabul River near
Darunta
Darūnṭa ( ps, درونټه) (or Khayrow Khel), also spelled Daruntah or Derunta, is a village in Jalalabad District of Nangarhar province. It is located next to Jalalabad city on route AO1 in Afghanistan.
Numerous remains of stupas from the 1s ...
, approximately west of
Jalalabad, the capital of
Nangarhar Province in eastern
Afghanistan. It is owned and operated by the country's
Ministry of Energy and Water. The
dam's
hydroelectric
Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power). Hydropower supplies one sixth of the world's electricity, almost 4500 TWh in 2020, which is more than all other renewable sources combined and ...
power station is being rehabilitated at a cost of $10.5 million.
History
Darunta Dam was built in the early 1960s under the supervision of engineers from the
Soviet Union. Its power station contains three vertical
Kaplan turbines (six-blade propeller) with a rated output of each. Originally, the dam supplied of electrical power but silting and damage to the system during the decades of
war has reduced its actual output to .
In 2011, an American company by the name of ANHAM was contracted by
USAID to perform the initial rehabilitation of the Darunta power plant. Later, the USAID abandoned the repair work due to
Gul Agha Sherzai not paying 10% of the project's $11 million total cost. Sherzai was Nangarhar's governor at the time.
See also
*
List of dams and reservoirs in Afghanistan
References
External links
*
Darunta Hydroelectric Power Plant Rehabilitation
{{Nangarhar Province
Dams in Afghanistan
Buildings and structures in Nangarhar Province
Hydroelectric power stations in Afghanistan
Afghanistan–Soviet Union relations
Dams completed in 1964
Dams on the Kabul River
Soviet foreign aid
1964 establishments in Afghanistan