With the commissioning of this project, the installed capacity of NHPC has gone up to 5295MW. Sewa-II is the third project commissioned by the utility in the current 11th five year plan period in addition to the 510MW Teesta-V Project in Sikkim and 520MW Omkareshwar Project in Madhya Pradesh.
Major components of the Sewa-II project are a 53mt high concrete gravity dam, a 3.3mt diameter and 10.084km long horse shoe shaped head race tunnel, a 9mt diameter and 111mt high restricted orifice type surge shaft, a 2.4mt internal diameter circular steel lined pressure shaft, a surface power house with three units of Vertical Pelton turbines of 40MW each and three tail race outlet channels of 28mt, 39mt and 50mt length each.
NHPC said it is highly active in the state of J&K where it has already commissioned the 690MW Salal, 480MW Uri-I and 390MW Dul Hasti power stations. Four other projects including the 330MW Kishanganga, 240MW Uri-II, 45MW Nimoo-Bazgo and 44MW Chutak projects are under construction.
