{"id":271184,"date":"2019-04-26T05:01:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T05:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=271184"},"modified":"2019-04-26T05:07:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T05:07:31","slug":"indias-hydropower-to-meet-target-despite-varying-forecasts-by-imd-skymet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indias-hydropower-to-meet-target-despite-varying-forecasts-by-imd-skymet\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s hydropower to meet target despite varying forecasts by IMD, Skymet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The country\u2019s hydropower generation would be good this season despite varying forecasts by the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) and Skymet, said industry officials. While Skymet expects a below-normal rainfall, IMD sees near-normal rains this year. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if the Skymet prediction is right, it is more than enough for us,\u201d said Balraj Joshi, chairman and managing director of NHPC. With more than 6,900 megawatt (Mw) of capacity, NHPC is the largest hydropower producer in the country. <\/p>\n<p>Joshi said he was not worried for two reasons. \u201cBoth IMD and Skymet predictions are more crop-oriented and are for plane areas. Our plants are affected by local rainfall, particularly because our catchment areas are small,\u201d he said, adding 50 per cent of NHPC\u2019s hydro production in rainfall-dependent, while the rest is snowfall-driven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country\u2019s hydropower generation would be good this season despite varying forecasts by the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) and Skymet, said industry officials. While Skymet expects a below-normal rainfall, IMD sees near-normal rains this year. \u201cEven if the Skymet prediction is right, it is more than enough for us,\u201d said Balraj Joshi, chairman and managing director of NHPC. With more than 6,900 megawatt (Mw) of capacity, NHPC is the largest hydropower producer in the country. Joshi said he was not worried for two reasons. \u201cBoth IMD and Skymet predictions are more crop-oriented and are for plane areas. Our plants are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}