{"id":58657,"date":"2026-08-16T14:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T09:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=58657"},"modified":"2026-08-16T17:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T12:00:20","slug":"vishnugad-pipalkoti-hydro-electric-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/vishnugad-pipalkoti-hydro-electric-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project (VPHEP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seven workers were killed after a landslide triggered a massive surge of water and debris into an under-construction tunnel of the 444-MW Vishnugad-Pipalkoti Hydroelectric Project in Uttarakhand\u2019s Chamoli district recently.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>run-of-river <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hydropower scheme being developed on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/alakananda-river\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Alaknanda River <\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(a major tributary of the Ganga River) in the Chamoli district of <\/span><b>Uttarakhand<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project envisages the construction of a 65 m high <\/span><b>concrete diversion dam,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> along with a 13.4 km long Head Race Tunnel (HRT) and a 3.04 km long Tail Race Tunnel (TRT).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With an installed capacity of <\/span><b>444 MW (4 \u00d7 111 MW),<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> VPHEP is designed to provide peaking power to India\u2019s Northern Grid.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project, when completed, will generate an estimated 1,665 gigawatt-hours (or million kilowatt-hours) of electricity in a typical year.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>All water diverted from the river will be returned to the river<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> approximately 18 km after the point of diversion.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is being developed by<\/span><b> THDC India Ltd,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (formerly Tehri Hydro Development Corporation Limited) and financed by a US $648 million loan from the World Bank.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">THDC is a<\/span><b> joint venture b<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">etween the <\/span><b>government of India and the government of Uttar Pradesh.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/india\/2026\/Aug\/13\/six-workers-dead-14-injured-after-water-floods-tunnel-in-uttarakhands-chamoli\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NIE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vishnugad Pipalkoti Hydro Electric Project is a run-of-river hydropower project on the Alaknanda River in Chamoli, Uttarakhand. 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