Private Hydropower

“The water flowing through rivers of our country is not only a natural resource but ‘liquid gold’ which if harnessed properly can serve the nation in more than one way. Nature has bestowed our country with a bounty of this resource readily available for exploitation for the benefit of the common man.”

Shri. Jaiprakash Gaur
Founding father of Jaypee Group

Hydropower - a renewable source of energy on which the future of our country rests. It conserves our nations fossil fuel reserves, is in abundant supply and simultaneously is non-polluting in nature. Keeping all this in the backdrop of mind, Govt of India opened up the doors in 1991 to private companies for the setting up of private hydropower projects. The GOI has an ambitious plan of providing power for all by the year 2012. For this the government identified an optimal hydro thermal mix of 40:60, to meet the peak shortage demand.

Seeing the vast potential present in the hydro power generation, the house of Jaypees ventured into private power generation on Build Own Operate(BOO) basis. JAL has so far the distinction of participating in 54 % of new hydropower projects under India’s Tenth Five Year Plan.

As an independent power producer the group has the following BOO projects in hand out of which Baspa II and Vishnu Prayag have already been commissioned while Karcham Wangtoo is currently under execution. The Company will soon start the work for its other hydro-power projects which are Lower Siang 2025 MW & 500 MW Hirong in Arunachal Pradesh and 270 MW Umngot & 450 MW Kynshi (Stage –II) in Meghalaya.

Baspa II
Baspa Hydro – Electric Project Stage II (300 MW) is an environment friendly run – of – the – river power development devoid of any rehabilitation or resettlement issue. The project site is located on the river Baspa, a tributary of river Satluj in Kinnaur district of Himachal Pardesh. www.jhpl.com

Vishnu Prayag
The 400 MW Vishnu Prayag Hydro-electric Project was commissioned in October,2006 is a run-of-the river project located across river Alaknanda in district Chamoli of Uttarakhand. The Project, utilising the waters of river Alaknanda, has an underground power station with an installed capacity of 400MW (4x100MW). It is the Group’s project on Build-Own-Operate (BOO) basis. www.jppowerventures.com

Karcham Wangtoo
The 1000 MW Hydro power project is located in Himachal Pradesh and is built on BOO basis. This is the India’s largest Private Hydro power station in making. It is envisaged as run-of-the-river project and is being constructed on River Satluj in the district of Kinnaur. View details

Arunachal Pradesh projects (Lower Siang 2025 MW & 500 MW Hirong)
The 2025 MW Lower Siang HE project on river Siang and 500 MW Hirong HE project
on river Siyom in Arunachal Pradesh will be built on BOO basis and are expected to be commissioned by 2014 and 2015 respectively.

Meghalaya projects (270 MW Umngot & 450 MW Kynshi)
The project are 270 MW Umngot HEP in the East Khasi Hills district and 450 MW Kynshi (Stage –II) HEP in the West Khasi Hills district of Meghalaya. The projects would be undertaken through a Joint Venture between JPVL and State govt of Meghalaya on a 74% -26% basis.