India’s largest 1500 MW Nathpa Jhakri Hydro Power Station implemented and operated by public sector SJVN 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 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.
RN Misra, CMD and all 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 Satluj.
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.
The Power station has completed more than 10 years of commercial operation and on July 6 this year, the station achieved the benchmark of generating 75000 million units of electricity.
The power station is supplying power to the nine northern grid States— Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Chandigarh & Delhi.