KP moves CCI over exclusion of 769MW Swat hydropower projects from national power plan

Business Recorder reported that KP has taken its objection over the removal of four Swat River hydropower schemes from the national plan to the Council of Common Interests. The schemes, totalling 769.56MW, were left out of the IGCEP 2025-35 outline. A letter dated September 29, 2026 asks the CCI to settle the disagreement with the federal government under Article 157(3).

The four schemes, including PEDO's 207MW Madyan and 94.96MW Gabral-Kalam projects, entered IGCEP 2021-31 after decisions at the council's 48th sitting on November 6, 2021. The province says it went ahead with building, financing and transmission work on that basis, as state-run schemes with PC-Is and financing in place by March 2021 were to count as committed. The province contends the later removal happened without consultation and clashed with the National Electricity Policy 2021 and Article 157(2) of the Constitution.

KP wants the CCI to direct that all four schemes be restored in IGCEP 2025-35 and in later generation plans. It also asks the council to reaffirm or revisit the 2021 planning assumptions, with any amendments it sees as necessary. The Inter-Provincial Coordination Department has asked the Power Division and top officials in Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan for views within two weeks. A draft summary is now before the CCI, with the province seeking a formal ruling on how its hydropower schemes fit the national framework.