Name: Electric Power Stations and National Grid
Uploaded: 2019-07-19
Duration: 3 min 36 s
Description: Do you know how electricity gets transferred to your houses? Curious to know? Let's watch this video to understand this process in detail.

Question

How do dams help in producing electricity? India is the seventh-largest producer of hydroelectricity in the world. These are a few hydropower plants in India. Where is each of them located? Also name the rivers on which dams for these hydroelectric power plants are built.
1. Tehri Dam
2. Koyna Hydroelectric Project
3. Srisailam
4. Sardar Sarovar Dam
5. Bhakra Nangal Dam
6. Nagarjuna Sagar Dam

Accepted Answer

A typical dam stores water behind it in a reservoir or lake that was created by humans. When water is let out of the dam, it rotates a turbine that is connected to an electricity-generating generator.

The following table indicates the location and the river on which the given dams are built-

Name of the dam River Location

1. Tehri Dam Bhagirathi Uttarakhand

2. Koyna Hydroelectric Project Koyna Maharashtra

3. Srisailam Krishna Andhra Pradesh

4. Sardar Sarovar Dam Narmada Gujarat

5. Bhakra Nangal Dam Sutlej Himachal Pradesh

6. Nagarjuna Sagar Dam Krishna Andhra Pradesh

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