TS resumes hydel power generation from N’Sagar

The TS government on Thursday resumed hydel power generation from Nagarjunasagar project as it is getting huge inflows from upstream projects like Srisailam.

With huge inflow of water from upstream projects like Almatti and Jurala on Krishna River, the Srisailam project is getting inflow of nearly 4.61 lakh cusecs of water and water resources authorities have lifted 10 gates to a height of 15 metres and released 4.29 lakh cusecs downstream.

With this, Nagarjunasagar project getting inflow of 3.26 lakh cusecs and the project is likely to be filled to the brim in three to five days as the water level has reached

547.41 ft against 590 ft full reservoir level (FRL) with current storage of 204.09 tmc ft

(65.40 per cent capacity) against gross capacity of 312.05 tmc ft (thousand million cubic feet).

With water level rising in Nagarjunasagar project, the state government has installed a capacity of 815 MWw of power and as it started operation of power units one after another and pressed into service six units discharging huge quantities of water used for power generation to downstream the river. With huge inflow of such water into Pulichintala project, its authorities asked the government not to release such a huge quantity of water as they are already having full capacity water storage.

At this, the TS government stopped two power units and is continuing power generation only from four units.

Pulichintala project has current storage of water at 43.23 tmcft

(94.45 per cent of capacity) against the gross capacity at FRL of

45.77 tmcft with inflow of 12,934 cusecs and outflow of 13,800 cusecs.