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Hydroelectric power plants vary in terms of the way they harvest energy. One type involves a dam and a reservoir. The water in the reservoir is available on demand to be used to generate electricity by passing through channels that connect the dam to the reservoir.
The first Edison hydroelectric power station, the Vulcan Street Plant, began operating September 30, 1882, in Appleton, Wisconsin, with an output of about 12.5 kilowatts. [16] By 1886 there were 45 hydroelectric power stations in the United States and Canada; and by 1889 there were 200 in the United States alone. [13]
Rangit Dam (Hindi: रन्गीत् बाँध Bāndh), which forms the headworks of the Rangit Hydroelectric Power Project Stage III, is a run-of-the-river hydroelectric power project on the Ranjit River, a major tributary of the Teesta River in the South Sikkim district of the Northeastern Indian state of Sikkim.
Bunji Dam is proposed large hydro-power project on Indus River in Bunji, Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan. [1] If built it would be Pakistan's second largest hydropower project. The feasibility study of the project was carried out by joint consultant firms Artelia and Sogreah Consultants of France, Nippon Koei of Japan and Development, Mott MacDonald ...
Salal Dam (Hindi: सलाल बाँध Salāl Bāndh), also known as Salal Hydroelectric Power Station, is a run-of-the-river hydropower project on the Chenab River in the Reasi district of the Jammu and Kashmir. [1] It was the first hydropower project built by India in Jammu and Kashmir under the Indus Water Treaty regime. [2]
The main power house of Tehri Dam that houses four generators, each capable of producing 250 MW of power Tehri Dam is a 260.5 m (855 ft) high rock and earth-fill embankment dam. Its length is 575 m (1,886 ft), crest width 20 m (66 ft), and base width 1,128 m (3,701 ft).
The projected cost-benefit ratio of the project has been worked out at 1:1.91 at 10% interest on capital outlay. [citation needed]. In 1998 a coffer dam was over topped by flooding. The power house required repairs and did not generate power for a year. On 2 October 2009, Srisailam dam experienced a record inflow which threatened the dam. [8]
It supports a 780 MW hydroelectric power station in Moolamattom, which started generating power on 4 October 1975. [1] At 168.91 metres (554.2 ft), it is one of the highest arch dams in Asia . The Indo-Canadian project was inaugurated by the Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on February 17, 1976.