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1 month, 4 weeks ago

Hydel power generation at peak as Karnataka reservoirs full

UDUPI: With abundant rainfall the state received over the past few months and subsequent increase in the water level in Linganamakki, Supa and Mani reservoirs, there is a silver lining with regard to meeting the energy needs. A source informed that the water level at Linganamakki reservoir, the source of water for Sharavathi hydel power project, was 146.42 tmcft on …

Power Cent Capacity Total Source Reservoir Mani

4 months ago

Oldest hydel power plant on Eastern Ghats, opened by India’s first President, completes 69 years of service

The Hindu

Machkund Hydroelectric Project, the State’s oldest engineering marvel, inaugurated by India’s first President Babu Rajendra Prasad, has completed 69 years of its service since its commissioning on August 19, 1955. Located on the slopes of the Eastern Ghats along the inter-State border of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha, 185 km from Visakhapatnam, the project had an installed capacity of 120MW power …

Odisha Power Plant Mhep

4 months, 1 week ago

Water release at Tungabhadra dam to help more hydel generation in Telangana, A.P.

The Hindu

The washing away of 19th crest gate on the spillway of Tungabhadra Dam, an inter-State project located in Karnataka, late on Saturday night due to the snapping of the chain link used for its operation and the resultant release of water from other gates too is likely to help Telangana and Andhra Pradesh generate more hydro-electric power. “It’s an unfortunate …

Flood Telangana Generation Tungabhadra Srisailam Tungabhadra Dam Nagarjunasagar

10 months ago

Satya Pal Malik in cross-hairs: CBI raids premises linked to former J&K governor in hydel project case

Hindustan Times

The Central Bureau of Investigation is conducting searches at over 30 locations including premises linked to former Jammu and Kashmir governor Satya Pal Malik in connection with its probe into alleged corruption in the awarding of a contract for a hydel project in the Union territory. Former J&K Governor Satya Pal Malik. The case relates to alleged corruption in awarding …

Kashmir Project Jammu Cbi Satya Pal Malik

11 months ago

Generation at hydel projects drops by 85% in rain-deficit Himachal

Hindustan Times

The prolonged dry spell this winter has led to an 85% fall in power production in Himachal Pradesh. “With a rain deficit of 99.7% so far in January, there has been a significant reduction in water levels in the state’s five perennial river basins, Chenab, Ravi, Sutlej, Yamuna and Beas, adversely affecting generation in all power projects,” said principal secretary …

Power Units Imd Punjab Una Himachal Sutlej

1 year, 2 months ago

Will the Sikkim flood impact hydel projects? | Explained

The Hindu

The story so far: During the early hours of October 4, a sudden surge in the Teesta river washed away habitations in Sikkim, the Chungthang Dam, several bridges and parts of National Highway 10, leaving scores of people dead and missing and thousands homeless. The 1,200 MW Teesta Stage III hydro power project located at Chungthang village in Mangan district …

Floods Power Flood Projects Project State Dam

1 year, 2 months ago

Hydel power plants in Karnataka to be idle following weak monsoon

The Hindu

A weak southwest monsoon has led to low water levels in reservoirs this year, in turn impacting power generation in hydel dams. The cumulative water storage in three major hydel dams is only 43.75% of their capacity, forcing Karnataka Power Corporation Limited to go for thermal energy and conserve the available water for the coming summer. Data on major hydel …

Karnataka Water Power Storage Dam Capacity Available

1 year, 2 months ago

GTA threatens to stop work at two hydel power projects over Teesta after floods

Hindustan Times

The Gorkhaland Territorial Administration, a semi-autonomous body which governs the Darjeeling and Kalimpong hills in north Bengal, has threatened to stop two hydel power projects over the Teesta River in Kalimpong after a flash flood killed more than 90 people in Sikkim last week. Teesta Low Dam Project III at Reang “We will not allow the Teesta Low Dam Project …

West Bengal Flood Sikkim Teesta Nhpc Gta Kalimpong

1 year, 2 months ago

Sikkim floods a natural disaster? Activists question the role of ongoing hydel projects along Teesta

The Hindu

With roads and bridges washed away and rescue teams yet to reach the epicentre of the north Sikkim flash floods, activists who have opposed the construction of large hydel projects on river Teesta are refusing to call the tragedy only a natural disaster. This led the water in river Teesta to rise abnormally and swept away several areas including the …

Rescue West Bengal Power State Bengal District Sikkim

1 year, 7 months ago

Himachal water cess: 27 hydel companies register to operate

Hindustan Times

Despite the BJP-led Centre terming the imposition of water cess on hydel projects in Himachal Pradesh “illegal and unconstitutional” and directing the Congress government in the state to withdraw its decision last month, 27 companies have registered themselves on the portal set up for the purpose to operate in the state. “The portal will c,lose on may 20, its clear …

Water Power Project State Bjp Centre Register

1 year, 9 months ago

India should take Bangladesh into confidence on Teesta river projects, says expert

The Hindu

India should take Bangladesh into confidence before going ahead with hydel projects on the Teesta river as that would help in maintaining bilateral confidence, a leading water expert from Bangladesh said. Speaking to The Hindu from Dhaka, Ainun Nishat said reports that hydropower projects were being planned near Darjeeling had added to Bangladesh’s concerns over “unilateral” moves on the Teesta …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Villagers Protest Against Hydel Project in Ukhand’s Pithoragarh, Fear Joshimath-like Crisis

News 18

Residents of 14 villages of Darma valley here have risen in protest against a proposed 165 MW hydro-electricity project in the area fearing that its construction will push them into the throes of a Joshimath-like crisis. “If it gets constructed, at least five villages including Tidang, Dhakar, Goo, Philam and Bon will have to be shifted as they will develop …

Project Joshimath Sangharsh Samiti Darma Valley

1 year, 10 months ago

Stop construction of hydel projects in Himachal’s Kinnaur: Green activists to Centre

Hindustan Times

Fearing Joshimath-like land subsidence in Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur, various environmental groups and local activists have urged the central government to stop the construction of power projects in their district, which has at least 22 small and big hydroelectricity projects. They have urged the expert appraisal committee, river valley projects, ministry of environment, forest and climate change, to discuss the issue …

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1 year, 11 months ago

After Joshimath, Kinnaur panchayat members urge govt to ban more hydel projects

Hindustan Times

In the wake of the Joshimath land subsidence allegedly triggered by an under-construction power project, panchayat representatives in Kinnaur have urged the government to learn a lesson and ban the construction of more power projects in the district, which has a fragile ecology. He said the people of Kinnaur want local MLA Jagat Singh Negi to take up the matter …

Projects Panchayat District Act Representatives Kinnaur Joshimath

2 years ago

Arunachal Pradesh: Govt to install 22 new mobile towers for better connectivity along LAC in Tawang

Op India

The Central government has decided to install 22 new mobile towers in the bordering areas of Arunachal Pradesh to improve mobile connectivity along the Line of Actual Control. Deputy Commissioner of Tawang, Kesang Ngurup Damo, told ANI that, 22 new mobile towers would be installed in the bordering areas of the state and the Centre has already sanctioned it. “The …

Mobile Areas Towers Mobile Connectivity Install New Mobile Towers

2 years, 2 months ago

Hydel project in Western Ghats gets in-principle nod from MoEFCC

Hindustan Times

Mumbai In July, the Maharashtra government signed an MoU worth ₹60,000 cr for setting up energy projects in the state. Now, Adani Green Energy Limited’s has received an in-principle nod from the union environment ministry’s expert appraisal committee for the 2100MW Patgaon pumped storage plant in Sindhudurg and Kolhapur on river valley and hydroelectric projects. The lower reservoir in this …

Maharashtra Power Project Reservoir

2 years, 4 months ago

Hydel storage lesser by 9% compared with previous year despite heavy rains in Karnataka

The Hindu

Though it has been raining heavily in the catchment areas resulting in huge inflows to the three major hydel reservoirs of Karnataka, their total storage is lesser by around 9% when compared with the corresponding period in previous year. The total storage in the three major hydel reservoirs of Linganamakki, Mani and Supa was 67.80% of the full capacity at …

Karnataka Water Level Reservoirs Previous Mani Lesser

2 years, 7 months ago

Andhra Pradesh worried, TS uses Sagar water for power generation

Deccan Chronicle

Vijayawada: The Andhra Pradesh government would raise the issue of the Telangana government drawing water from Nagarjunasagar dam for hydel power generation – a violation of norms -- at the Krishna River Management Board meet on May 6. We are going to raise the issue once again at the KRMB meeting, so as to stop the drawal of water from …

Water Power Telangana Project Prakasam Drinking Water Power Generation

2 years, 8 months ago

Drinking water crisis stares at AP, TS

Deccan Chronicle

Vijayawada: Andhra Pradesh and Telangana state are expected to face shortage of drinking water this summer especially in May if the Telangana state government continues to draw water from Nagarjunasagar dam to generate hydel power defying directions from the Krishna River Management Board not to do so. In AP, people living in the two erstwhile districts of Guntur and Prakasam …

Water Power Telangana Drinking State Dam Prakasam

3 years, 9 months ago

No new hydel projects were given permission in Upper Ganges region in last 6 years, says Prakash Javadekar

Hindustan Times

The government has not given permission to any new hydroelectric project in the Upper Ganges region in the last six years, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar told Rajya Sabha on Monday. To a question, the minister clarified that the Chamoli disaster happened due to a glacier fall that led to flooding in the region killing many people, and was not caused …

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3 years, 9 months ago

Chamoli flash flood: A wake-up call

The Hindu

On February 7, around 10 a.m., a landslide, the trigger of which was unknown, crashed into a lake formed in the past in the Nanda Devi Sanctuary in Uttarakhand, resulting in a flash flood bearing mud and other debris that hurtled down the steep slopes and claimed at least 56 lives and two hydroelectric power projects. This wedge of approximately …

Disaster Water Uttarakhand Workers Flood Projects Project

3 years, 10 months ago

Uttarakhand disaster: Toll rises to 67 as two more bodies recovered from Tapovan project site

Firstpost

Gopeshwar: Two more bodies were recovered from the flood-ravaged Tapovan-Vishnugad hydel project site, taking the toll in the calamity in Uttarakhand to 67 even as search operations continued there for the 15th day on Sunday. Three bodies had been recovered from the desilting tank near the Tapovan project barrage by Saturday evening while two more were extricated late at night, …

Project Toll Rises Tapovan

3 years, 10 months ago

Uttarakhand flood toll reaches 62 as one more body recovered at NTPC site; 142 still missing

Firstpost

Thirty-three bodies out of the 62 recovered so far have been identified, police said, adding the DNAs of unidentified bodies are being preserved One more body has been recovered from a flood-hit area in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district, taking the toll in the glacial disaster to 62, even as search and rescue operations continued for the 13th day at the NTPC’s …

Ntpc Recovered Reaches 62

3 years, 10 months ago

Uttarakhand Floods: Kin of Missing Protest at Rishiganga Power Project Site

News 18

Raini : The families of workers missing from the Rishiganga hydel project site created a ruckus here on Wednesday accusing the authorities of not carrying out the rescue operations properly after the sudden flood in the Alaknanda river system wreaked havoc. Rescuing the missing people does not seem to be the priority," alleged a man from Punjab, whose brother Jugal …

Project Rishiganga Workers Missing

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Hydel power generation at peak as Karnataka reservoirs full

Oldest hydel power plant on Eastern Ghats, opened by India’s first President, completes 69 years of service

Water release at Tungabhadra dam to help more hydel generation in Telangana, A.P.

Satya Pal Malik in cross-hairs: CBI raids premises linked to former J&K governor in hydel project case

Generation at hydel projects drops by 85% in rain-deficit Himachal

Will the Sikkim flood impact hydel projects? | Explained

Hydel power plants in Karnataka to be idle following weak monsoon

GTA threatens to stop work at two hydel power projects over Teesta after floods

Sikkim floods a natural disaster? Activists question the role of ongoing hydel projects along Teesta

Himachal water cess: 27 hydel companies register to operate

India should take Bangladesh into confidence on Teesta river projects, says expert

Villagers Protest Against Hydel Project in Ukhand’s Pithoragarh, Fear Joshimath-like Crisis

Stop construction of hydel projects in Himachal’s Kinnaur: Green activists to Centre

After Joshimath, Kinnaur panchayat members urge govt to ban more hydel projects

Arunachal Pradesh: Govt to install 22 new mobile towers for better connectivity along LAC in Tawang

Hydel project in Western Ghats gets in-principle nod from MoEFCC

Hydel storage lesser by 9% compared with previous year despite heavy rains in Karnataka

Andhra Pradesh worried, TS uses Sagar water for power generation

Drinking water crisis stares at AP, TS

No new hydel projects were given permission in Upper Ganges region in last 6 years, says Prakash Javadekar

Chamoli flash flood: A wake-up call

Uttarakhand disaster: Toll rises to 67 as two more bodies recovered from Tapovan project site

Uttarakhand flood toll reaches 62 as one more body recovered at NTPC site; 142 still missing

Uttarakhand Floods: Kin of Missing Protest at Rishiganga Power Project Site