The leading agencies in the hydro power sector were identified as NTPC, NHPC, SJVNL, HPPCL and HPSEB Ltd. HP State Electricity Board has also commissioned 22 eco-friendly projects of an aggregate 300 MW capacity. HP State Electricity Board has also commissioned 22 eco-friendly projects of an aggregate 300 MW capacity. The government has identified locations on Beas, Ravi and Pabbar basins for more projects. The upcoming projects include World Bank funded 18 MW Raisan project in Kullu district on a pilot basis. The government said the 100 MW Uhl-II project is almost complete and trial run will be conducted soon. The list of upcoming projects also includes Devi Kothi, (16 MW), Sai Kothi-I (15 MW), Sai Kothi-II (16. 50 MW) and Hael (18 MW) in Chamba district. For rehabilitation of the project affected families, the new provision has been introduced under which a particular part of the revenue generated will be transferred directly to the affected families, said the government. In a first, about Rs.
The Rampur hydroelectric power plant is located in Himachal Pradesh, India. Credit: The World Bank Group. The Rampur hydro power plant has a capacity of 412MW and can generate approximately 1, 770. 68GW of electricity annually. Credit: The World Bank Group. The electricity generated at the Rampur hydro power plant is transferred to the northern grid. Credit: domdeen / Shutterstock. The Rampur hydroelectric power plant (RHEP) is a 412MW hydropower station situated on the Satluj River in the state of Himachal Pradesh, India. The project was developed by Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam, a joint venture of Government of India and the Government of Himachal Pradesh. The power station is located downstream of the existing 1, 500MW Nathpa Jhakri hydroelectric power project (NJHEP), the biggest operating hydroelectric power plant in India. It is designed to utilise the desilted water of NJHEP and can generate approximately 1, 770. 68GW of electricity a year. Himachal Pradesh is entitled to receive 30% of the power generated by the Rampur power plant on a bus bar rate basis, in addition to 12% royalty on the power generated.
6. 74 crore has been transferred to the eligible families since 2012-13, it said. The affected families are also receiving 100 units of free electricity as an incentive. The government said it has simplified the procedure for obtaining techno-clearance. Now, the Directorate of Energy is authorized to lay down procedure and issue technical concurrence to the projects below Rs. 1000 crore cost. During past year, the government has accorded technical concurrence to about 167 projects of 700 MW capacities, it said. State Government said it has created a safety and quality control authority under the aegis of Directorate of Energy. The government claims it has also ensured mandatory procedural guidelines for dam safety and operational procedures. The state is following specific codes of global standards, claimed the government. Other than the aforesaid bodies, a monitoring unit will look after the progress of projects and assess the achievements of the project developers, the government informed.
Koldam hydroelectric power project details The utility-scale plant has an installed capacity of 2MW and a power output of 1MW. The project involved the construction of a 167m-high rock and gravel fill clay core dam with a crest length of 474m and a crest width of 14m. It also necessitated the construction of an upstream coffer dam with a maximum height of 73m, a crest length of 243. 5m and a crest width of 14m, as well as a downstream coffer dam. The dam's chute-type spillway, located on the left bank, is equipped with six 17. 1m-wide and 17m-high radial gates. Featured on the surface powerhouse are four vertical Francis-type 200MW turbines, complemented by a 144m hydraulic head, a 100m-long open-type tailrace channel and a surface / conventional-type 400kV switchyard. Ancillary project activities included the construction of an approach channel, two diversion tunnels and a pen stock. Transmission system and beneficiaries of Koldam project The output from the Koldam hydroelectric power plant is conveyed to the national grid via a 400kV direct current (D/C) line.
Out of the 965 identified, 216 are commissioned, including less than 5 MW plants, with an installed capacity of 10, 596 MW, and were operational by December 2019. Only 58 projects are under construction among the identified with an installed capacity of 2351 MW, 640 projects are in various stages of clearance and investigation with an installed capacity 9260 MW, 30 projects are to be allotted with 1304 MW installed capacity, and merely four projects are disputed/cancelled with installed capacity of 50. 50 MW. The large number of HPPs are sanctioned without proper consideration of negative environmental and geohazard impacts on the Himalayan terrestrial biota. In this work, our focus was on the hydropower and climate change impact on the Himalayan river regimes of the Chenab, the Ravi, the Beas, the Satluj, and the Yamuna river basins. We analyzed basin-wise rainfall, temperature, and soil moisture data from 1955 to 2019 to see the trend by applying the Mann–Kendall test, the linear regression model, and Sen's slope test.
House damaged during the 2013 monsoon in Pangi, a village in Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh affected by slope failure following construction for the Kashang stage 1 hydroelectricity project [Image by: Sumit-Mahar] Forest rights undermined People from Lippa, another village in Kinnaur, are fighting a legal battle against the forest clearance granted to Stage II and III of the Kashang project by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) in 2011. According to guidelines and clarifications issued by the MoEFCC regarding the Forest (Conservation) Act (FCA), 1980, forest rights have to be settled and a No Objection Certificate (NOC) has to be obtained from the village council or gram sabha for forest clearance. Additionally, given that Kinnaur is a Schedule V area, special provisions like the Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996 say that the consent of the gram sabha is necessary if local natural resources are to be diverted towards 'development projects'. HPPCL, however, did not get an NOC from the gram sabha.
"There's no respect for the [FRA] law because there's no implementation, " Kinnar said. "They make laws just to fool us. "
A basin-wise hazard zonation map has been drawn to assess the disaster vulnerability, and 12 hydropower sites have been covered through the primary survey for first-hand information of local perceptions and responses owing to hydropower plants. View Full-Text ▼ Show Figures This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited MDPI and ACS Style Sahu, N. ; Sayama, T. ; Saini, A. ; Panda, A. ; Takara, K. Understanding the Hydropower and Potential Climate Change Impact on the Himalayan River Regimes—A Study of Local Perceptions and Responses from Himachal Pradesh, India. Water 2020, 12, 2739. AMA Style Sahu N, Sayama T, Saini A, Panda A, Takara K. Water. 2020; 12(10):2739. Chicago/Turabian Style Sahu, Netrananda; Sayama, Takahiro; Saini, Atul; Panda, Arpita; Takara, Kaoru. 2020. "Understanding the Hydropower and Potential Climate Change Impact on the Himalayan River Regimes—A Study of Local Perceptions and Responses from Himachal Pradesh, India" Water 12, no.
"Government of India is also supporting this project by providing grants of ₹66. 19 crore for enabling infrastructure which has helped in reducing power tariff, " the statement said. The clean energy produced by the project will lead to a reduction of 6. 1 lakh tonnes of carbon dioxide annually, it said. The construction will lead to jobs for around 2, 000 people and free electricity worth ₹1, 140 crore for Himachal during the 40-year life cycle of the project. "The project-affected families will be provided with 100 units of free electricity per month for 10 years, " the statement added. Our code of editorial values