India will mitigate China's threat with Siang project: NHPC Chairman & MD

For the last few years, the government has given a lot of emphasis to hydropower projects and pumped storage solutions through policy push and incentives, said NHPC Chairman & MD

Hydropower is back in the reckoning after the recent policy push from the Centre to make it a reliable balancing power source as India adds more renewable energy. NHPC, the state-owned hydropower major, is betting on this and is hopeful to finish large hydro projects of strategic importance such as the one in the Siang Valley in Arunachal Pradesh. It is also building solar and wind projects that will be hived off in a subsidiary and potentially listed as well, said R K Chaudhary, chairman & managing director NHPC, in an interview with Shreya Jai in Faridabad.

 

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