TEHRI DAM-A

BRIEF HISTORY
AND WORKING
MITHRALINNI.M.A
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III-B.TECH AGE
 Tehri dam is an earth and
It is located in the Tehri district
rock fill dam. Its spillway
of Uttarakhand. Constructed on
system consists of chute
river Bhagirathi to tap its vast
spillway(consisting of three
potential for irrigation and
spillway radial) and four
hydroelectric purpose.
shaft spillways.

MUST KNOWS ABOUT THE TEHRI DAM!

The dam is 260.5m high and

The reservoir has a gross
592m long, with an
storage capacity of 3540
underground powerhouse with
MCM and effective storage
an installed capacity of
capacity of 2615 MCM
600MW
 The Tehri Timeline

The government
started the Tehri
dam project Dam commissioned

1969 1990 2006 2024

The government Highest dam in India 4th

transferred the project to Highest in the world.
the Tehri hydro dam Supplying electricity to 9 sates
Corporation (THDC) for
its rehabilitation work.
Tehri Hydro Power Project

◦ It consists of an underground power house housing four Turbine/ Generator sets of 250 MW
each (1000 MW capacity), designed to operate with a head variation of 90 m.

Sections of Tehri hydroelectric project

The TPS(Tehri pumped

Tehri dam and hydro storage) plant- The Koteshwar Dam
power plant- 1000MW(under power plant-400
1000MW(completed) construction) MW(completed)
 HYDROELECTRIC POWER GENERATION

The potential energy of water in

the reservoir is transformed into
kinetic energy through HRT,
penstock, butterfly valve and MIV.
This KE is utilized by turbine
blades in the power house tunnel.
ME by the rotation of blades is
converted to EE by the generator.
 It consists of intake Structure,
controlling of 4 head race
The Tehri underground
tunnels, butterfly valve
powerhouse hosts four Francis
chamber, penstock, machine
turbines of 250 MW each with
hall, bus duct galleries, draft
a gross head of 231,5m.
tubes, upper and lower
expansion chambers, tail race
tunnels, and lightings

Power house is the heart of any

electric power plant, where
generation of Electricity, switching,
controlling and final transmission of
electric energy to grid gets
accomplished.
The generating units
consists of two parts-
rotor and stator housing
field and armature
windings respectively.
 It stabilizes irrigation
in 6.04 lakh hectares The project is intended to provide
The project provides a total
in the existing irrigation in 2.7 lakh hectares in
annual revenue of 2400 crores
command. the command area of lower
to the central government and
Ganga, parallel lower ganga,
800 crores to the Uttarakhand
Madhya ganga stage-1 and Agra
government
canal system

BENEFITS OF
TEHRI HYDRO
POWER PROJECT

During the 2013 Uttarakhand floods Besides providing much needed

both Alaknanda and Bhagirathi were power to the northern grid and
swelling with flood water when the irrigation to command areas, the
Tehri dam helped containing the excess project supplies over 250 million
water thus saving millions of lives and gallons of drinking water to Delhi,
keeping hundreds of settlements from Uttarakhand and UP.
being submerged completely.
 The Tehri dam is located in a seismic
fault zone in the central Himalayas which
is more prone to the occurrence of
earthquakes. However it is claimed to
withstand an earthquake of Richter 8.5.
CONTROVERSIES
The Tehri lake was formed due to
the Tehri dam that led to the
submergence of over 24 villages and
around 1 lakh people where given
rehabilitation.
5291 families living in Tehri were
affected and was relocated to a new
town known as New Tehri
Renowned environmentalist Sunderlal
Bahuguna lead protests against the
creation of Tehri dam as it was anti-
human rights to displace such a large
population
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