JVPL's Vishnuprayag power plant starts functioning

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Sep 12 2015 | 7:22 PM IST
Jaiprakash Power Ventures Ltd (JPVL) today said its Vishnuprayag hydro power plant, which was temporarily shut down in June, has started functioning.
"Company's 400 MW Vishnuprayag Hydro Power Plant, which was temporarily shut down wef June 25, 2015, due to heavy rains and storm in Uttarakhand causing unprecedented flood in river Alakhnanda resulting in excessive silt and debris at Barrage, has resumed power generation wef evening of September 11, 2015," the company said in a regulatory filing.
JPVL is a part of the Jaypee Group. The Group is poised to be a 13,470 MW power producer by 2019, according to the company's website.
On September 8, Sajjan Jindal-controlled JSW Energy had said that it will acquire Jaypee Group's Bina thermal power plant in Madhya Pradesh, even as it concluded previously announced deal to buy the cash-strapped group's two hydropower projects.
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First Published: Sep 12 2015 | 7:22 PM IST

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