The hydro power plants are located on the river Drin in the district of Shkodër in north-western Albania. The power plants consist of two stages, Ashta I and Ashta II, which are the final power plant steps in a cascade of three existing power plants. The overall design capacity of the plants is over 50MW and the forecasted annual energy generation is 230 GWh.
Pöyry has already performed the conceptual, approval and tender design and has been performing the detail design services since November 2009. The site supervision services will start in March 2010 to be completed in December 2012. The services cover the supervision of construction works and assembly of electro-mechanical equipment on site.
