India Kinnaur Hydroelectric Power

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Generating clean electricity through renewable hydropower and exporting the net electricity to the regional grid.

This project generates clean electricity by utilizing renewable hydropower, then exports the generated net electricity to the regional grid for sale. Doing so results in the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) into the atmosphere, which would have otherwise occurred due to the production of electricity from other carbon-intensive, predominantly coal-based power sources. The project converts the potential energy of water flows into mechanical energy through a 12 MW run-of-river Small Hydroelectric Project (SHP) being developed in the Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh. Following the project's auxiliary consumption, the generated electricity will be exported to the grid for sale, via the Himachal Pradesh State Electricity Board (HPSEB).

Technology and Mechanisms

Technology

Hydroelectric

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