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Nathpa Jhakri Hydro Power Station Awarded for Meritorious Performance

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#696969"><span style="font-size:11px"><span style="font-family:arial">Consecutively for the 3rd year in a row, SJVN`s flagship 1500 MW Nathpa Jhakri Hydro Power Station has been selected for `Silver Shield` for the year 2012-13, and `Bronze Shield` for the year 2011-12, while for its meritorious performance in the year 2010-11 it had been awarded `Gold Shield` by the Ministry of Power, Govt. of India. &nbsp;The prestigious awards will be presented by Minister of State for Power (I/C), Shri Jyotiraditya Scindia, at a function at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi on 01.02.2014.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#696969"><span style="font-size:11px"><span style="font-family:arial">The Ministry of Power had instituted this Comprehensive Award Scheme for recognizing meritorious performance in Power Sector in the year 2004-05. &nbsp;The Nathpa Jhakri Hydro Power Station (6 x 250 MW) of &nbsp;Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam Limited (SJVNL) has been selected for the `Silver Shield` for the year 2012-13 and the `Bronze Shield` for the year 2011-12 by the Central Electricity Authority in the category of &quot;Performance of Hydro Power Stations&quot;. &nbsp;The Power Station, in operation since 2003-04, had established a new record of power generation at 7610 MU during the year 2011-12 while during the year 2012-13 it had generated 6777 MU. &nbsp;During the year 2011-12, the power station had exceeded its design energy of 6612 MU by 1000 MU and established an all time high record of generation while during the year 2012-13 too it had exceeded the design energy despite all odds of extremely low flow in river Satluj. &nbsp;The power station had also crossed the 50,000 MU generation mark in October, 2011 with a Plant Availability Factor of 104.26 Percent in 2011-12 and crossed 60,000 MU in June 2013 with a PAF of 105.9 Percent in the year 2012-13.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#696969"><span style="font-size:11px"><span style="font-family:arial">R.P. Singh, CMD, SJVN informed that successive records of power generation were being achieved by the Power Station as a result of optimum machine and water management. &nbsp;The generation by the power station during 2011-12 had registered about 50 Percent increase (from 5104 MU to 7610 MU) since commencement of full operations in the year 2004-05.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#696969"><span style="font-size:11px"><span style="font-family:arial">The power station is since supplying valuable power to the nine northern grid states namely Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu &amp; Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Chandigarh &amp; Delhi.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#696969"><span style="font-size:11px"><span style="font-family:arial">Shri Singh also informed that the Company`s 412 MW Rampur H.E. Project in Himachal Pradesh was nearing completion is likely to be commissioned during the current financial year.</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#696969"><span style="font-size:11px"><span style="font-family:arial">Source-On Request</span></span></span></p>