Sutlej Jal Vidyut Jal Nigam aims to increase installed capacity to 10,564 MW.

Sutlej Jal Vidyut Jal Nigam (SJVN), a mini navratna PSU, aims to achieve an installed capacity of 10,564.6 MW.

The Corporation had already commissioned three projects with capacity of 1,960 MW - nine projects with 8,489 MW are at different stages of execution while three projects with 2,070 MW capacity are in preliminary stage.

After the success of 1,500 MW Nathpa-Jhakri Hydropower Project, the Corporation has forayed into thermal, solar and wind power generation and the Nathpa-Jhakri project has produced 7,058 million units of electricity against the MoU target of 8,520 million units by Union Power Ministry during the current year, said SJVN chairman and Managing Director R N Mishra.

An Ultra Mega Renewable energy project envisaging generation of 3,500 MW power through solar and 600 MW through wind energy was in the pipeline while pre-construction activities of 1,320 MW Thermal Power plant at Buxar in Bihar is in progress.

He said that 601 MW Luhri project in Himachal would be completed in three stages to reduce the length of tunnels.


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