{"id":50374,"date":"2025-06-15T14:49:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T09:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=50374"},"modified":"2025-06-16T17:15:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T11:45:03","slug":"shongtong-karcham-hydroelectric-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/shongtong-karcham-hydroelectric-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Shongtong Karcham Hydroelectric Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Shongtong Karcham Hydroelectric Project Latest News<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister recently set a firm Nov 2026 deadline for the completion of the long-delayed Shongtong-Karcham hydroelectric project.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>About Shongtong Karcham Hydroelectric Project<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a hydropower project, on the <\/span><b>river Satluj<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the Kinnaur District of <\/span><b>Himachal Pradesh<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a r<\/span><b>un-of-river project<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capacity: 3 \u00d7 150\u202fMW Francis turbines, totaling <\/span><b>450\u202fMW;<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> produces 1,594\u202fmillion units per year.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The gross head and net head of the project will be 128.57 m and 126.58 m respectively.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The total number of penstocks, pipes, or long channels that carry water down from the hydroelectric reservoir to the turbines inside the actual power station is expected to be 3 in number.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The penstock length will be 5.1 m. The project is expected to generate 1,593.93 GWh of electricity.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project is being developed and currently <\/span><b>owned by Himachal Pradesh Power.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/chandigarh\/shongtong-karcham-gets-2026-deadline-hp-bets-big-on-hydro\/articleshow\/121736896.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TOI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shongtong Karcham Hydroelectric Project is a hydropower plant on the Satluj River in Kinnaur District, Himachal Pradesh, generating clean and renewable energy. Read more about Shongtong Karcham Hydroelectric Project, State, Capacity, Latest News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":50455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,860,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-50374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-shongtong-karcham-hydroelectric-project","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50374","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}