BHEL finally supplies generator shaft for Koteshwar hydro project

BHEL has now dispatched the generator shaft for unit-IV of Koteshwar hydro electric project after more than a month completiing uts repair.

At unit-IV site, the stator and rotor are being assembled in the service bay and erection of turbine assembly is also in progress.

The 400 MW HEP, a run-off-river scheme over the Bhagirathi river with minimum diurnal storage, is comprised of a 97.5 m high concrete gravity dam and a surface power house, with four turbines of 100 MW capacity, each, at Koteshwar, 22 km downstream of the Tehri dam. This HEP is an integral part of the 2,400 MW Tehri hydro power complex.

Based on a 90% dependable year, the project is likely to afford an annual energy generation of 1,234 million units (MU), apart from the re-regulation of water releases from the Tehri reservoir for irrigation purposes. The reservoir will also function as a pre-requisite lower reservoir for Tehri pumped storage plan.