{"id":115748,"date":"2026-07-29T11:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T06:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=115748"},"modified":"2026-07-29T11:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T06:21:14","slug":"koldam-hydro-power-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/koldam-hydro-power-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Koldam Hydro Power Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Koldam Hydro Power Project Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Koldam NTPC Hydroelectric Project generated over 3512 million units of power in 2025-26, the highest ever since the project was commissioned.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Koldam Hydro Power Project<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is located on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/key-facts-about-sutlej-river\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Satluj River <\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the Bilaspur District of <\/span><b>Himachal Pradesh.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is located just <\/span><b>upstream of the Bhakra reservoir.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The total capacity of the project is <\/span><b>800 MW.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project involved the construction of a 167m-high rock-and-gravel-filled clay-core dam.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It also necessitated the construction of an upstream coffer dam as well as a downstream coffer dam.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The reservoir created by the dam can hold up to 560 million cubic metres of water.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>owned and operated <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by <\/span><b>India&#8217;s biggest power utility National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC).<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>output <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">from the power plant is<\/span><b> conveyed to the national grid<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> via a 400kV direct current (D\/C) line.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Himachal Pradesh receives 15%<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the generated<\/span><b> power free of cost<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>12% at bus-bar rate.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project also benefits <\/span><b>Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, and Chandigarh. <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News<\/b><strong>:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/money.rediff.com\/news\/market\/koldam-ntpc-hydro-project-record-power-generation-fy26\/51439320260728\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>RED<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Koldam Hydro Power Project is located on the Satluj River in the Bilaspur District of Himachal Pradesh. 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