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Northern Region...
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Largest in geographical area amongst the five regions covering 30.7% of the area and
28% of the country’s population.
- Largest number of constituents
(9 states/UT’s, 3 Central Generating Companies, one Central Transmission Utility and Bhakra
Beas Management Board).
- Largest sized hydro
unit (250 MW at Nathpa Jhakri) in the country.
- Establishment of the
first super thermal power station (Singrauli STPS) and 400 kV transmission system in the country.
- Establishment of the
first High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) long distance transmission system in the
country (2x750 MW, + 500 kV Rihand-Dadri HVDC bipole).
- First HVDC back-to-back
interconnection with Western Region (2x250 MW back-to-back HVDC
station at Vindhyachal).
- First 400 kV Static
Var Compensators (SVC’s) in the country (2x + 140
MVAR SVC at Kanpur).
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Largest capacity of combined cycle gas power stations amongst the five regions
(2939.50 MW) located along the 700 Kms. long Hazira-Bijaipur-Jagdishpur (HBJ) natural
gas pipeline of GAIL.
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