| Nearest
railway stations |
Kumardhubi
Asansol
Dhanbad |
| Distance
by road |
| 25
KM. from Asansol Dhanbad |
| Nearest
Airports |
| Kolkata |
|
Panchet Hydel
Power Station (PHPS) |
|
Panchet Hydel Power Station is located on the Damodar
river near the border of Dhanbad and
Purulia districts of Jharkhand and
West Bengal respectively. The hydel
station is located in the downstream
on the right bank of the spillway
channel. The Station has an installed
capacity of generating 80 MW power
with 2 generating units of 40 MW each.
|
Details
of Panchet Hydel Station
|
Gen.
Unit |
Name
of Manufacturers |
Original
capacity (MW) |
Present
capacity (MW) |
Year
of commissioning |
Special
features |
|
Turbine
|
Gen
|
|
1 |
Nohab
|
A.E.G. |
40 |
40 |
Dec.,
1959 |
Vertical
Kaplan turbine |
|
2 |
Voest
Alpine |
Elin |
40 |
40 |
Mar,
1991 |
Electronic
governor control. |
|
|
|
