Iranian firm wins contract at world’s 2nd largest hydroelectric plant
An Iranian state-run company has won a contract for carrying out scientific modeling at the world’s second largest hydroelectric power plant.
The Water Research Institute (WRI) said on Wednesday it had been awarded a contract by Tajikistan to carry out physical hydraulic modeling at Rogun Dam, a mega-project located some 110 kilometers to the northeast of the Central Asian country's capital of Dushanbe.
CEO of WRI Mohammad Reza Kavianpour said that contractors from European countries and Russia had submitted applications for the modeling project at Rogun.
Kavianpour said the project will include modeling of a water tunnel and a diversion dam, adding that the WRI will finish the project in the next three months.
Rogun will become the world’s second largest hydroelectric power plant once it reaches a full electricity generation capacity of 3.6 gigawatts (GW).
Tajikistan has finished works on two 0.6 GW units of the hydroelectric dam while works are underway for the remaining four units.
The embankment dam, which is being built on Vakhsh River in southern Tajikistan, will have a capacity for holding14 billion cubic meters of water.
Five major companies, including Tunnel Sadd Ariana, an Iranian engineering firm, have been commissioned to build the massive hydroelectric project while four other Iranian companies are involved in the dam’s sideline projects.
According to statements by Iranian Energy Ministry, hundreds of Iranian engineers and technicians have been working in Tajikistan in recent years as part of projects related to Rogun.
Iranian companies have been involved in major dam construction projects in Asian and Arab countries in recent decades.
Back in April, former Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi attended a ceremony in Sri Lanka to inaugurate the Uma Oya hydroelectric and irrigation project.
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