Dul Hasti Hydroelectric Plant

Dul Hasti Dam
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Country	India
Location	Kishtwar, Jammu and Kashmir
Coordinates	33°22′09″N 75°47′54″E / 33.3692°N 75.7984°E / 33.3692; 75.7984
Purpose	Power
Status	Operational
Construction began	1985
Opening date	2007; 17 years ago (2007)
Dam and spillways
Type of dam	Gravity
Impounds	Chenab River
Height	70 m (230 ft)
Length	190 m (620 ft)
Elevation at crest	1,250 metres (4,100 ft)
Spillway capacity	8,000 m3/s (280,000 cu ft/s)
Dul Hasti Hydroelectric Plant
Coordinates	33°17′13″N 75°45′44″E / 33.2869°N 75.7621°E / 33.2869; 75.7621
Commission date	2007
Hydraulic head	200 metres (660 ft)
Turbines	3 x 130 MW Francis-type
Installed capacity	390 MW

Dul Hasti is a 390 MW hydroelectric power plant in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir, India built by NHPC. The power plant is a run-of-the-river type on the Chenab River, in a rugged, mountainous section of the Himalayas, and several hundred kilometers from larger cities in the Jammu Division. It consists of a 70 m (230 ft) tall gravity dam which diverts water through a 9.5 km (5.9 mi) long headrace tunnel to the power station which discharges back into the Chenab. The project provides peaking power to the Northern Grid with beneficiary states being Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Delhi and Union Territory of Chandigarh. It was constructed between 1985 and 2007.^[1]