Power from the Rs 4,124-crore Tala project started flowing into India with the commissioning of the six units of the 1,020-MW project. The project on the Wangchu river, downstream of the operational Chukha hydroelectric project, was funded by the Indian Government with 60 per cent of the cost as grant and 40 per cent as loan at 9% interest.
Tala Project
The total energy output is pegged at 4,865 million units in an average year. The project includes a 92-metre-high concrete dam, a 22.2-km-long head race tunnel, and an underground power house with six generating units of 170 MW each, and three 440 kV single-circuit transmission lines to the India-Bhutan border. A bilateral agreement for the execution of the project was signed in mid-1996, and construction kicked-off in October 1996.