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Hydro Power India is blessed with a rich hydropower potential.
In the exploitable potential terms, India ranks fifth in the world. Less than
25% of the potential has been developed as of now. A large hydro has four main
advantages. ?
It is a source of green energy. ?
It has low variable cost. ?
It is grid friendly. ?
It can also can sub serve other purposes by irrigation, flood
control, etc. 1)
ROR (Run of River) There are not large reservoirs; a part of water
flow is diverted to the plant which is adjacent to the river. After generation
the flow is diverted back to the main flow through the tail race. This type
of hydro plants requires a diversion dam and has unregulated water flow. 2)
Dam Storage In these types of hydro
plants, large reservoirs are created by the construction a sizeable dam across
the river and the plants is situated at the toe of the dam. Here, water could
be regulated to generate electricity depending upon the demand 3)
Pumped Storage These
types of plants have two reservoirs, one at the upstream of the power plant
and one at the downstream. When there is low peak demand, the water from the
reservoir situated downstream is pumped back to the upstream reservoir. As of today, the total
identified hydro potential is 1 48 701 MW(mega watt). According to the list
of hydro electric projects in the country, a total of 29 572 MW?19.9% of
the total?has been harnessed and 13 286 MW is under construction. A total of
3 660 MW of pumped storage schemes have also been developed. ?
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