Sutlej Jal Vidyut Nigam's 1500 MW Nathpa Jhakri hydro power station crossed 60,000 million units generation on Friday.
After commencing commercial generation in October, 2003 the power station had achieved the 50,000 million unit mark in October, 2011. During the current year the power station has achieved highest daily generation of 39.14 million units on May 29, 2013, against the installed capacity of 36 million units.
The power station has also achieved the highest 108.30 percent Plant Availability Factor (PAF) with optimum and efficient management of the machines and water. Total of 12 percent of the power generated at this power station is supplied free of cost to Himachal Pradesh while 25 percent of the remaining generation is supplied at generation cost.
The remaining power is supplied to nine states of the northern grid namely Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan, UP, Uttarakhand, Delhi and Chandigarh. On this land mark achievement company's CMD R.P. Singh expressed great satisfaction and congratulated all the employees of the company.