Chisapani dam
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| Coordinates | 28 ° 38 '7 " N , 81 ° 16' 39" E | ||||
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| Construction time: | planned | ||||
| Height of the barrier structure : | up to 270 m | ||||
| Building volume: | 35 million m³ | ||||
| Crown length: | 850 m | ||||
| Power plant output: | up to 10,800 MW | ||||
| Data on the reservoir | |||||
| Water surface | 339 km² | ||||
| Storage space | 16,200 million m³ | ||||
The Chisapani Dam (also Chisapani Dam Project , Karnali Project ) was a project planned since the 1960s to build a dam on the Karnali River in Nepal .
There were different variants of the project, which had many purposes: On the one hand, electricity was to be generated from hydropower . The planned output should be 10,800 megawatts, in another variant with a smaller structure 7000 MW or 3600 MW. On the other hand, the planning envisaged a 270 meter (variant: 210 meter) high stone embankment dam , which was to dam a reservoir of 16,200 million cubic meters. The water was to be used to irrigate an area of 191,000 hectares. The total estimated cost at 1989 prices was $ 4.89 billion. According to a study by Warnock (1989), 60,000 people would have to be resettled for the construction.
The World Bank had a feasibility study carried out in the 1980s, but then withdrew for economic reasons. The American energy company Enron was discussed as the project developer and operator of the plant. In 1996, the Nepalese government granted Enron a concession to build the dam at the then estimated cost of $ 6 billion to $ 8 billion. Enron also withdrew because the prospects of selling the electricity to India were too uncertain. In 1999 and 2000 there were again attempts to advance the project.
See also
- List of the largest dams on earth
- List of the largest reservoirs on earth
- List of the largest hydroelectric plants in the world
- List of dams in the world