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Khodri Power Plant (4x30MW)

The Power Station is located on the downstream of the Chibro Power station and was commissioned in the year 1984. The power station draws water through a 6 km long and 7.5 diameter tunnel directly from the collection gallery of the Chibro power station. The surface Power House comprising 4 units of 30 MW each with Francis turbines of 43,600 HP output is located on the banks of Yamuna and the outlet of the water from the power station is in river Yamuna upstream of the Dakpathar Barrage. The Power Station's Design Energy is 345 MU with a design head of 57.9 m.

The operation of Chibro power station and the Khodri power station is another engineering marvel. The tandem control scheme between Chibro and Khodri Power Stations is in operation since January, 1984 and is the first of its kind in the country which optimizes the utilization of water for generation besides maintaining the safety of both the plants in case of outages.
The plant has shown improvements in generation in spite of the fact that there are restriction on the discharge in the tunnel and low hydrology in 2004-05.             

The plants downtime has reduced and the availability has improved significantly. The improvements have been possible due to the number of maintenance and safety measures under taken which were pending since a long time. The APDP also provided funds for the modernization in a limited way mainly for installation of 
  
(i) Static Excitation System 
  
(ii) Dry Type Auxiliary Transformers and 
  
(iii) SF6 Breakers .The major maintenance works undertaken in the plant that has been responsible for improved performance are:-

i) Repair of underwater parts.
ii) Epoxy Textolite wedges and packers were provided in the stator punching.
iii) Replacement of old governors with Micro-processor based Governors 

UJVNL proposes to obtain a KfW line of Credit from Germany for undertaking major M&U initiatives in the power station estimated to cost Rs. 95 crores and the works proposed under M&U are:- 

i) Provision of On-line monitoring equipment.
ii) Digital display of parameters in control room.
iii) Modernization of Communication, Test & Control, Protection, Instrumentation and fire protection of generators
iv) Improvement in the efficiency of generators and Turbines.
v) Fire fighting system 

The M&U works besides enhancing the life of plant by another 25 years would also increase the generation to 394 MU. The M&U of the plant is expected to be completed by 2011.