{"id":548791,"date":"2023-01-20T10:44:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T05:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=548791"},"modified":"2023-01-20T12:25:51","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T06:55:51","slug":"nhpc-submits-pre-feasibility-report-on-upper-siang-hydroelectric-project-as-counter-to-chinas-dam-on-brahmaputra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/nhpc-submits-pre-feasibility-report-on-upper-siang-hydroelectric-project-as-counter-to-chinas-dam-on-brahmaputra\/","title":{"rendered":"NHPC submits pre-feasibility report on Upper Siang hydroelectric project, as counter to China\u2019s dam on Brahmaputra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s leading hydroelectric power company National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) has submitted a pre-feasibility report to the Central Electricity Authority of India for the \u2018Upper Siang Multipurpose Storage\u2019, India\u2019s largest hydel power project to date to come up in Arunachal Pradesh.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The production of hydel power from the project is \u201csimply a byproduct\u2019\u2019, say sources in the NHPC, pointing out that the main purpose of the project is to counter China\u2019s water diversion scheme to the Yarlung Tsangpo river in China \u2013 which flows into Arunachal as the Siang and then as the Brahmaputra in Assam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s leading hydroelectric power company National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) has submitted a pre-feasibility report to the Central Electricity Authority of India for the \u2018Upper Siang Multipurpose Storage\u2019, India\u2019s 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 \u201csimply a byproduct\u2019\u2019, say sources in the NHPC, pointing out that the main purpose of the project is to counter China\u2019s water diversion [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548791","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=548791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}