India’s leading hydroelectric power company National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) has submitted a pre-feasibility report to the Central Electricity Authority of India for the ‘Upper Siang Multipurpose Storage’, India’s largest hydel power project to date to come up in Arunachal Pradesh.
Senior officials of the PSU said that the report for the 11 gigawatt (GW) project was submitted on December 30, 2022, and the NHPC was awaiting clearance.
The production of hydel power from the project is “simply a byproduct’’, say sources in the NHPC, pointing out that the main purpose of the project is to counter China’s water diversion scheme to the Yarlung Tsangpo river in China – which flows into Arunachal as the Siang and then as the Brahmaputra in Assam.
