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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Tata Power's Captive Hydropower Gives it a Competitive Edge in Race for Pumped Storage Power

Tata Power will be able to boost its renewable energy generation capacity with its captive hydropower plants, with the potential to deliver up to 48 GW of round-the-clock renewable power. The company has five reservoirs and can develop up to 12 GW from its captive assets, coupled with solar and wind power plants.

Massachusetts Ratepayers to Pay $512M for Transmission Line for Canadian Hydropower

Live Mint

Massachusetts ratepayers will be charged an additional $512 million for the construction of a power transmission line for Canadian hydropower. The project, initially estimated at $1 billion, has faced delays and cost overruns, with the final cost estimated at $1.5 billion. Despite the additional costs, supporters argue that the project will lower electric rates, reduce carbon pollution, and help Massachusetts …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Sikkim landslide is a warning to upcoming hydro-projects

New Indian Express

NEW DELHI: A recent landslide in Sikkim created a furore since it came a year after another disastrous landslip in the Himalayan state. It substantially damaged the Teesta V, a 510 MW hydel power station, and a GIS building located at Dipu Data on the Teesta river, 20 km southwest of Gangtok. This disaster comes on the heels of the …

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4 months ago

Congress criticises govt over untimely fund allotment for Sikkim landslide

New Indian Express

NEW DELHI: The main opposition party Congress has condemned the Union Government over Sikkim landslide for not allocating funds to act timely to mitigate the disaster. This disaster comes on the heels of the Glacial Lake Outburst Floods and riverine floods in the Teesta River basin in October 2023, which caused massive devastation in Sikkim and Kalimpong, West Bengal. In …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

India’s hydropower output records steepest fall in nearly four decades

The Hindu

India's hydroelectricity output fell at the steepest pace in at least 38 years during the year ended March 31, a Reuters analysis of government data showed, as erratic rainfall forced further dependence on coal-fired power amid higher demand. The 16.3% drop in generation from India’s biggest clean energy source coincided with the share of renewables in power generation sliding for …

India Data Power Hydropower Rainfall Fall Grid

10 months ago

CBI Raids Ex-J&K Governor Malik in Hydropower Project Scam

Deccan Chronicle

NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation conducted raids at multiple locations, including the residences of former Jammu and Kashmir governor Satya Pal Malik, as well as 29 other sites as part of an ongoing investigation into alleged irregularities surrounding the awarding of civil contracts for the Rs 2,200-crore Kiru Hydropower project in the region. Additionally, the CBI's search team …

Delhi Power Project Cbi Malik Satya Pal Malik

1 year, 3 months ago

Power ministry may recommend GST cut on hydro project components

Live Mint

NEW DELHI : The union ministry of power is likely to ask for a cut in the goods and services tax on components used in hydropower projects. In its ambitious journey of 500 GW installed renewable energy capacity by 2030 and net zero carbon emission by 2070, the power ministry has been looking at ways to lower tariffs and boost …

India Power Hydropower Projects Project Ministry Gst

1 year, 4 months ago

Maine hydropower corridor will resume construction despite big jump in cost, CEO says

Associated Press

LEWISTON, Maine — Construction in Maine will resume next week on an electricity transmission project bringing Canadian hydropower to the New England power grid despite a half-billion dollar cost increase, the head of Avangrid said Thursday. CEO Pedro Azagra Blazquez said on an earnings call that the cost of the project, originally estimated at around $1 billion, has grown to …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Hydropower transmission corridor to be renegotiated because of cost increases

Associated Press

PORTLAND, Maine — Partners on a $1 billion project aimed at bringing Canadian hydropower to the New England power grid are trying to sort out how cost increases during lengthy litigation will be shared, in hopes of getting the stalled project moving. In April, a jury in Maine ruled that developers, Central Maine Power’s corporate parent and Hydro-Quebec, completed enough …

Power Project Maine Canadian Massachusetts

1 year, 6 months ago

Bottomless supply? Concerns of limited Canadian hydropower as U.S. seeks to decarbonize grid

Associated Press

HARTFORD, Conn. — Policymakers seeking to make the U.S. electric grid less reliant on fossil fuels have long looked north to Canada and its abundant surplus of hydropower, advocating for new transmission lines to bring more of that cheap, clean electricity south. Some New England lawmakers are questioning the wisdom of plans to construct new transmission lines across their states, …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Bottomless supply? Concerns of limited Canadian hydropower as U.S. seeks to decarbonize grid

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Some New England lawmakers are …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Work on Maine hydropower transmission line can restart, state says

Associated Press

LEWISTON, Maine — The construction of a 145-mile transmission line in Maine will be able to resume now that the state has removed a suspension order on the project. The New England Clean Energy Connect project is no longer suspended, as it had been since fall 2021, the Maine Department of Environmental Protection said Tuesday. The department’s ruling came less …

Project Maine Hydropower Transmission

1 year, 10 months ago

Tapovan Vishnugad hydropower plant: NTPC project at the heart of Joshimath crisis

The Hindu

Published : Jan 26, 2023 10:45 IST Tapovan Vishnugad, the 520 MW hydropower project undertaken by NTPC, has been controversial at least since 2009, as it is again now in January 2023. In 2009, when the Tapovan Vishnugad Hydropower project’s tunnel boring machine on Dhauliganga river punctured an aquifer near Selang, it led to a daily discharge of millions of …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Kinnaur youth seek affidavit from candidates against construction of hydropower projects

The Hindu

As Himachal Pradesh prepares for the Assembly election on November 12, a group of youngsters in the State’s tribal district of Kinnaur — which over the years has bore the brunt of environmental catastrophes — have decided to confront the candidates in the poll fray, asking them to give an ‘affidavit’ surrounding a promise against setting up of any new …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Hydro-Quebec halts work on its part of hydropower corridor

Associated Press

PORTLAND, Maine — With construction halted on a 145-mile power line in Maine, a Canadian partner on the project is following suit and temporarily halting construction on the other side of the border. Hydro-Quebec advised a regulatory agency in Canada that it hopes to be able to resume construction “and remains convinced of the value, merits and importance of the …

Power Project Maine Canada Construction

3 years, 1 month ago

People’s Party of Arunachal demands review of hydro projects in State

The Hindu

The People’s Party of Arunachal has slammed the BJP Government in the State for not taking any action against power developers who failed to commission hydroelectric projects despite deadlines set in the memoranda of agreements. The PPA, the only regional party in Arunachal Pradesh, has asked the Pema Khandu-led government to review the status of these power projects and take …

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3 years, 3 months ago

A hydro onslaught the Himalayas cannot take

The Hindu

In normal circumstances, when a mistake is understood and suffered, one tends to learn from it and not repeat it. The background The affidavit filed recently by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in an ongoing matter in the Supreme Court of India has recommended the construction of seven partially constructed hydroelectric projects in the Uttarakhand Himalaya. Politicians …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Kinnaur in Himachal Pradesh staring at negative impacts of altered land use

The Hindu

After nine people lost their life in a landslip in Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur district, a debate surrounding the degradation of environment in this ecological sensitive hill terrain is bound to gain momentum, even as a recent study suggests that both hydropower projects and compensatory afforestation plantations, carried out in lieu of the forest land diverted for hydropower projects in the …

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3 years, 8 months ago

Claude Arpi | Hydro, rail projects in Tibet a threat to India

Deccan Chronicle

Recent developments not far from the India-China border in Arunachal Pradesh are worrying. In a communiqué released during the sessions of the National People’s Congress in early March in Beijing, the Communist Party of China reiterated that according to the 14th Five-Year Plan and the Long-Range Objectives Through the Year 2035, adopted by China’s top legislature: “The construction of key …

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3 years, 10 months ago

Uttarakhand law to levy water tax on hydropower projects in state held valid

Hindustan Times

Uttarakhand high court has upheld the constitutional validity of 2012 legislation enacted by Uttarakhand government to levy water tax on hydro power projects of more than 5 MW capacity in the state on water drawn for power generation at the rates decided by the state government, as per the order. The court order stated that a bare reading of the …

Tax Court Water Order State Act Power Generation

3 years, 10 months ago

Rethinking run-of-the-river hydro projects

Hindustan Times

In 2012, I was part of a study investigating the impacts of National Thermal Power Corporation ’s hydropower projects on the lives and livelihoods of local communities in Sikkim. As part of the project, I spoke extensively to local people in the catchment areas of Teesta-V, a run-of-the-river hydropower project just like the Tapovan Vishnugad Power Project in Uttarakhand. ROR …

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3 years, 10 months ago

Uttarakhand glacier burst: NTPC says Tapovan hydel project partly damaged

India TV News

Part of an under-construction hydropower project of state-run power major NTPC has been damaged by the avalanche in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district on Sunday. Part of the under-construction Tapovan Vishnugad hydropower project has faced damages while another privately-owned Rishi Ganga hydro project was completely devastated. "An avalanche near Tapovan in Uttarakhand has damaged a part of our under-construction hydropower project in …

Uttarakhand Ntpc Hydropower Project Tapovan

4 years, 1 month ago

Cabinet approves ₹1,810-crore hydropower project in Himachal. And other key announcements

Live Mint

Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved ₹1,810 crore investment for 210 megawatt Luhri stage-I hydropower project on river Satluj in Shimla &Kullu districts of Himachal Pradesh. "Himachal Pradesh will benefit with free power worth around ₹1,140 crore from Luhri stage-I hydro-electric project, during project life cycle of 40 years," the statement said. Cabinet has given its approval for signing a Memorandum …

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Tata Power's Captive Hydropower Gives it a Competitive Edge in Race for Pumped Storage Power

Massachusetts Ratepayers to Pay $512M for Transmission Line for Canadian Hydropower

Sikkim landslide is a warning to upcoming hydro-projects

Congress criticises govt over untimely fund allotment for Sikkim landslide

India’s hydropower output records steepest fall in nearly four decades

CBI Raids Ex-J&K Governor Malik in Hydropower Project Scam

Power ministry may recommend GST cut on hydro project components

Maine hydropower corridor will resume construction despite big jump in cost, CEO says

Hydropower transmission corridor to be renegotiated because of cost increases

Bottomless supply? Concerns of limited Canadian hydropower as U.S. seeks to decarbonize grid

Bottomless supply? Concerns of limited Canadian hydropower as U.S. seeks to decarbonize grid

Work on Maine hydropower transmission line can restart, state says

Tapovan Vishnugad hydropower plant: NTPC project at the heart of Joshimath crisis

Kinnaur youth seek affidavit from candidates against construction of hydropower projects

Hydro-Quebec halts work on its part of hydropower corridor

People’s Party of Arunachal demands review of hydro projects in State

A hydro onslaught the Himalayas cannot take

Kinnaur in Himachal Pradesh staring at negative impacts of altered land use

Claude Arpi | Hydro, rail projects in Tibet a threat to India

Uttarakhand law to levy water tax on hydropower projects in state held valid

Rethinking run-of-the-river hydro projects

Uttarakhand glacier burst: NTPC says Tapovan hydel project partly damaged

Cabinet approves ₹1,810-crore hydropower project in Himachal. And other key announcements