The Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has given the environment-related go-ahead to pumped storage hydropower projects with a capacity of 11.98 gigawatts (Gw).
This marks the largest tranche of these new-tech energy storage projects to be approved in one go in the country. The clearance has been granted for eight projects, with an investment of Rs 81,981 crore, spread across five states, according to the notifications posted on the Parivesh portal of MoEFCC.
Pumped storage hydropower is a type of hydroelectric energy storage that uses water stored in two reservoirs at different elevations to generate electricity.
