Karun 1 Dam and Hydroelectric Plant
Dam and hydroelectric scheme, Four vertical Francis units of 250 MW (1,000 MW) supplied under the Farab contract; about 4,000 GWh/year; underground powerhouse in Iran.
The record
- Country
- Iran
- Location
- Masjed Soleyman
- Coordinates
- 32.052, 49.606
- Technology
- Dam and hydroelectric scheme
- Capacity
- Four vertical Francis units of 250 MW (1,000 MW) supplied under the Farab contract; about 4,000 GWh/year; underground powerhouse
- Capital cost
- —
- Stage
- Operational
- Owner or client
- Khuzestan Water and Power Authority
- Contractor
- Farab (electromechanical and hydromechanical EPC)
- Operator
- Khuzestan Water and Power Authority
- Finance
- —
- Award or start year
- —
- Commissioned
- —
Record last checked 2026-09-20.
History
No dated milestones recorded yet. They are added as each is confirmed against a public announcement.
Sources
2 references
Every field in the record above is taken from the references below. A field that none of them confirms prints as a dash.
- Farab, Karoun 1 hydro power plant. farab.com.
- MENA Water Review major projects register and PPP pipeline — compiled from procurer publications, development-bank project pages and trade reporting; each record names its source.
Client the Khuzestan Water and Power Authority; Khuzestan, Iran; installed capacity 1,000 MW in four vertical Francis units of 250 MW at 187.5 rpm weighing 650 tonnes each; synchronous generators at 15.75 kV; single-phase step-up transformers of 100 MVA; butterfly valves of 5 m inner outlet diameter; underground powerhouse; average annual generation 4,000 GWh; scope EPC for electromechanical and hydromechanical equipment; status completed. This is the only source opened for the row. The page gives no dam dimensions, reservoir volume or dates, and it does not state whether the 1,000 MW covers the whole Karun 1 (Shahid Abbaspour) station or only the units in Farab's scope, so the capacity field records the contract scope rather than station output. Coordinates from the OpenStreetMap dam way named سد شهید عباسپور, the Shahid Abbaspour dam in Andika county, Khuzestan.