{"id":16454,"date":"2025-10-26T12:57:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T07:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16454"},"modified":"2025-10-27T11:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T05:30:12","slug":"subansiri-hydroelectric-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/subansiri-hydroelectric-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India\u2019s largest hydroelectric project, the 2000-MW Subansiri Lower Hydroelectric Project, has begun its commissioning phase.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>2000 MW run-of-the-river hydro project<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> being constructed on the <\/span><b>Subansiri River, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a <\/span><b>tributary of the Brahmaputra<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is located at Gerukamukh on the <\/span><b>Arunachal Pradesh\u2013Assam border.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It will be the <\/span><b>single largest hydroelectric plant in India <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">when completed.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project is being developed by the state-run <\/span><b>National Hydro Power Corporation (NHPC).<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>construction <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the project has been <\/span><b>underway since 2005.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>project cost <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was met through <\/span><b>70% equity and 30% debt financing<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by the provision of a term loan. The <\/span><b>central government is providing budgetary support <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">as part of the equity component.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project <\/b><b>Features<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It consists of a<\/span><b> concrete gravity dam<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which will be 116 m high from the riverbed level and 130 m from the foundation.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The length of the dam will be 284 m. The gross storage capacity of the reservoir will be 1.37 km3.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The powerhouse will comprise <\/span><b>eight Francis-type turbine<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s capable of generating <\/span><b>250 MW of electricity each.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It will also have eight horseshoe-shaped headrace tunnels, eight horseshoe-shaped surge tunnels , and eight circular penstocks.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A tailrace channel (35 m long and 206 mwide) will take the water discharged by the turbines back to the river.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/guwahati\/after-13-yr-delay-subansiri-lower-hydel-project-begins-ops\/articleshow\/124814669.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project is a 2000 MW run-of-the-river hydro project being constructed on the Subansiri River, a tributary of the Brahmaputra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":42210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[193],"class_list":{"0":"post-16454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-lower-subansiri-hydroelectric-project","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}