New Delhi: North Eastern Electric Power Corporation Limited (NEEPCO) has synchronised the 150 MW unit-3 of Kameng Hydro Electric Project in Arunachal Pradesh on January 14. With this, the three units of 150 MW each have been completed. The fourth unit of 150 MW is planned to be synchronised by end of this month. It is pertinent to mention here that NEEPCO had earlier commissioned two units totaling 300 MW during the lockdown in June/July 2020 amidst all odds. The 600 MW Kameng Hydro Electric Project will generate 3353 million units of energy.
"NEEPCO's Chairman & Managing Director (CMD) VK Singh with his vast experience of working in the hydro sector for over 35 years has led the project team from the front to accomplish the most difficult hydro project having two concrete gravity dams of height 69m & 24.5m and 14.5km headrace tunnel (HRT)" said power PSU in press statement sent on Friday.
Total underground HRT and penstock exceed 16km. This plant is located in Gondwana zone with extremely poor young Himalayan strata.
The CCEA (Cabinet Committee of Economic Affairs) clearance for the project was obtained in December 2004 for a project cost Rs 2,496.90 crore with the time of completion of five years. "However, owing to a range of factors, beyond the control of NEEPCO, major design change of primary structures, geological surprises, devastating flash floods, contractual issues, law and order problems etc., the commissioning of the project was delayed," NEEPCO had said about the project.
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