Chamera Hydroelectric Project
Chamera HEP is constructed on the river Ravi. It is located in the Chamba district of Himachal Pradesh.
Encardio-rite provided a risk assessment monitoring solution for Chamera II and Chamera III.
Chamera-II project comprises of a 43 m high, 118.5 m long concrete gravity dam with 7.0 m dia., a 7.86 km long head race tunnel. The underground power house with an installed capacity of 300 MW houses 3 units of 100 MW capacity each, designed to operate under the net rated head of 243 m and designed to generate 1499.89 million units in a 90% dependable year with 95% machine availability.
Chamera-III project comprises of a 64 m high, 73 m long concrete gravity dam with a 6.5 m dia., a 15.97 km long head race tunnel. The underground power house with an installed capacity of 231 MW houses 3 units of 77 MW capacity each, designed to operate under the net rated head of 200 m and designed to generate 1086.37/1108.17 million units in a 90% dependable year with 95% machine Availability.
Encardio-rite was awarded the complete instrumentation contract (supply and installation) for the State II and Stage III of the project, from the respective Contractors:
- Chamera II HEP: Concrete Gravity dam, penstock, power station
- Chamera III HEP: Concrete gravity dam, HRT, and power house
Instrumentation supplied and installed included:
- Vibrating wire piezometer
- Three-point electronic borehole extensometer
- Three-point mechanical borehole extensometer
- Stand pipe (casagrande) piezometer
- Water level indicator
- Water seepage measurement system
- Vibrating wire centre hole load cell
- Readout unit for vibrating wire sensors
- Data acquisition system
| Project Details | Chamera Hydroelectric Project |
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| Location | Chamba, Himachal Pradesh, India |
| Client | NHPC |
| Contractor | Jaiprakash for Concrete Gravity dam, penstock (Chamera II) |
| Year | 2002-2012 |