The six completed hydropower projects are Zawgyi-2, Zaungtu, Thaphanseik, Monechaung, Paunglaung and Yenwe.
The 22 ongoing projects will add a total 16,599 MW more to the country’s installed capacity on completion.
Besides above, 15 more hydropower projects are being planned. They will have an installed capacity ranging from 48 MW to 2,800 MW and lie in seven divisions and states.
Of the projects, seven are located in the northernmost Kachin state, six of which range over 1,200 MW.
Rest of the projects are scattered in Sagaing, Mandalay, Magway and Bago divisions, and Rakhine and northern Shan states.
The 15 projects on completion in the future will add another 13,847 MW to the country’s installed capacity.
The country in its monthly statistical report said that electric power installed capacity had reached a total of over 1,684 MW in Mayanmar at the end of 2008 and the power generated stood 6.603 billion kilowatt hour in 2007-08, up from 6.164 billion kilowatt hour in 2006-07.
