Patrind Hydropower Plant is a run-of-the-river, high head project of 110 metres (360 ft), located on Kunhar River near Patrind Village of Mansehra District, right on the border of Abbottabad District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province and Muzaffarabad city of Azad Kashmir, Pakistan.
The dam and the tunnel has been constructed on Kunhar River at Patrind Village in Muzaffarabad District, AJK and Abbottabad District on the right bank in Boi Village and the power house on the right bank of Jehlum River in Muzaffarabad, AJK at lower Chattar near Thuri Park.
The company has completed the project in a period of three-and-a-half years at an estimated cost of $400 million.
[6] Since the project is being developed by SHPL as an IPP, the SHPL has entered into a 30-year Power Purchase Agreement with National Transmission and Dispatch Company (NTDC), Pakistan's grid system operator, for the sale of electricity generated from the Project.
[9][10] A surface type powerhouse to accommodate three Vertical Francis Turbine Units, each of 50 MW capacity, is proposed on the right bank of Jehlum River.