Unit 1 of Parbati-III power station restored: NHPC

State-owned NHPC today announced the restoration of Unit 1 of Parbati-III power station in Himachal Pradesh.

"The Unit 1 of Parbati-III power station which was shut down since March 28, 2015 has been restored on July 26, 2016," NHPC said in a filing to BSE.

Parbati Stage-III power station is located in Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh.

It is a run-of-the-river scheme whose design discharge includes the diversion of the tail race releases of Parbati Stage-II Power house as well as inflows from river Sainj and Jiwa nallah.

The power station is designed to generate 1,963 million units in a 90 per cent dependable year. The plant was fully commissioned in 2014.