Question

Kotla power plant is located in _____.
a. Punjab
b. Himachal Pradesh
c. Jammu and Kashmir
d. West Bengal

Answer 1

Hint: Kotla Power House is also the PowerHouse of the run-of-the-river. This Power House, which originates from the Nangal Dam and has been in operation since 1954, is on the Nangal Hydel Channel.

Complete answer:
In Punjab, the Kotla power plant is located. It is a power station for hydroelectric power. The Power Plant has a 155.3 MWe capacity. There are 6 units in it. In 1962, the first unit was commissioned, and in 1954, the last. It is run by the Board of Bhakra Beas Management (BBMB). It is a part of the irrigation system of Bhakra Dam.
The height of the power plant is 29 m (95 feet) and its length is 304.8 m (1000 feet).

Additional information:
The length of Length of Nangal Hydel Channel is 61.06 km and its discharge is 354 cumecs (12500 cusecs). There are 3 units present in the Kotla Power house and there are 3 types of turbines which are Vertical shaft, Kaplan Type (#2) and Propeller Type (#1 & 3). The speed of the turbine is 166.7 r.p.m. Water flows downstream of Nangal dam from Bhakra Dam where it is controlled and released into Nangal Hydel Channel, which after Ganguwal and Kotla power plants will later become Bhakra Main Line.

Hence, the correct answer is option A.

Note:
At 741 ft (226 m), the Bhakra dam is one of the world's highest-gravity dams. This dam, which is the third largest reservoir in India, the first being Indira Sagar Dam and the second Nagarjunasagar Dam, is formed by the 166 km Gobindsagar Reservoir, named after Guru Gobind Singh.