Chamera Dam

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• The Chamera Dam is a concrete gravity dam across the River Ravi, located near the town of Dalhousie, in the Chamba district in the state of Himachal Pradesh in India.
• A large proportion of the resultant reservoir, called Chamera Lake, lies in the Salooni sub-division of Chamba and was established for the purpose of generating hydroelectricity.
• The Chamera hydroelectric plants were completed in three phases in 1994, 2003 and 2012.
• The first plant uses conventional hydroelectric methods for generating power, whilst the second two plants use run-of-the-river methods.
• The combined generating capacity of the three plants is 1,071 megawatts (1.436×10^6 hp).

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