NHPC restores another unit of Uri-II power station in J&K

NEW DELHI :  State-owned NHPC has restored one more unit of Uri-II power station in Baramulla district, Jammu & Kashmir, which was shut down following a fire incident in 2014.
“…One more unit (i.E. Unit 1) of URI-II power station is restored on June 17, 2015 after a fire incident on November 20, 2014,” NHPC said in a regulatory filing.
According to a BSE filing by the company yesterday, unit 4 of the Uri-II power station has also been restored.
“Unit  4 of URI-II power station has been restored on June 15, 2015 after the November 20 fire incident,” NHPC Ltd said is the filing.
The Unit-4 is the first turbine that is made operational since the occurrence of the fire incident. All four units of the plant were shut following the inferno incident.
Uri-II power station (4X 60MW) is a run-of-the-river project located in Uri Tehsil of Baramulla District.
The project is designed to make use of Jhelum waters at a gross head of about 130m following the discharge of Uri-I tail water upstream.
The powerhouse cavern of the plant is 133m long, 15m wide and 40m high. The powerhouse accommodates four Francis vertical turbines of 60MW capacity each.
The Power station is close to the Line of Actual Control (LAC) and is designed to generate 1,124 million units in a 90 per cent dependable year. (AGENCIES)