The public sector Nathpa Jhakri project run by Sutlej Jal Vidyut Nigam limited has established an all time record of power generation in a single day by generating 39.363 million units of electricity on September 3, 2015 against the installed capacity of 36 million units. The earlier record for single day generation was 39.266 million units. The Plant Availability Factor (PAF) achieved during the day was 107.97 per cent. The 1500 MW Nathpa Jhakri is the largest hydro power project so far in the country.
Optimum management
The chairman and directors of the Company complimented the entire team at the power station and attributed the achievement to optimum machine and water management during the season when the silt remains high in the river Sutlej. Till date during the current financial year the power station has already generated 4850 million units of electricity against the MoU target of 4546 million units, said a spokesman.
The power station has already completed more than 10 years of commercial operation and on July 6, 2015 the station achieved the benchmark of generating 75000 million units of electricity. The power station is supplying valuable power to the nine northern grid States like Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Chandigarh and Delhi.
