Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project

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Twelve workers were injured, four of them critically, in a sudden landslide that struck the dam site of the under-construction Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydroelectric Project in Helang, Chamoli district, Uttarakhand, recently.

About Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project

• It is located on Alaknanda River, a major tributary of the Ganga River, in the district Chamoli in the state of Uttarakhand.
• It has been designed as a 444-megawatt, run-of-river hydropower scheme, which, when completed, will generate an estimated 1,665 gigawatt-hours, (or million kilowatt-hours) of electricity in a typical year. 
• The project will build a 65-meter  concrete gravity dam near Helang village in the Chamoli district of Uttarakhand to create a small reservoir in the Alaknanda River.
• This reservoir will store about 3.63 million cubic meters of water, the equivalent of about 4.9 hours of average flow of the river.
• A 13.4-kilometer headrace tunnel will carry the water to an underground powerhouse near Haat village to generate the power. 
• A 3-km tail race tunnel will return all the diverted water back to the Alaknanda, approximately 18 km downstream from where the water was diverted.
• It is being developed by THDC India Ltd  (formerly Tehri Hydro Development Corporation Limited) and financed by a US$ 648 million loan from the World Bank.
  • THDC is a joint venture between the government of India and the government of Uttar Pradesh.

Source: NIE

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