Uri II Hydroelectric PROJECT
Clean energy from hydropower
Baramullah District, INDIA*
The 240 MW Uri-II hydropower plant is the second run-of-river project on the Jhelum in the Uri area of Baramullah district, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The state-owned National Hydro Power Corporation (NHPC) developed the project downstream of the existing 480 MW Uri-I power plant, which was commissioned in 1997.
The power plant consists of four 60 MW generation units. Three of the four units were commissioned by the end of 2013 and the fourth unit was inaugurated in July 2014.
The hydropower plant is located near the border between India and Pakistan. Uri-II consists of a 52 m high and 157 m long concrete gravity dam with four 9 m wide spillways, a 4.23 km long 8.4 m diameter head race tunnel, a 25 m diameter restricted opening surge shaft and two 5 m diameter steel lined penstocks, four 3.5 m diameter steel lined pressure tanks, an underground powerhouse and a 3.61 km long horseshoe shaped tunnel.
The project was designed to utilise Jhelum waters at a gross head of approximately 130 m after the discharge of Uri-I tail water upstream.
The plant's powerhouse cavern is 133 metres long, 15 metres wide and 40 metres high. The powerhouse has space for four vertical Francis turbines, each with an output of 60 MW. The plant is designed for a maximum water flow of 225 cubic metres per second.
Construction of the INR17.24 billion (USD277.26 million) hydropower project began in 2005, but was significantly delayed due to an earthquake and frequent flooding of the Jhelum River.
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Climate protection taken seriously - with its own coal phase-out law
According to the 2017 Climate Protection Index (Germanwatch), India is in 20th place, nine places ahead (!) of Germany in the international climate protection ranking.
And although India is one of the ten largest CO2 emitters due to its population of 1.3 billion, its per capita emissions are still at a relatively low level. Nevertheless, the country's emissions are currently rising rapidly. Although around 25 per cent of the increasing energy consumption is covered by renewable energies, there is still plenty of room for improvement.
India's government wants to quadruple the share of renewable energies by 2022. Electricity from solar panels is already the cheapest source of electricity in India today. All coal-fired power plants are to be phased out by 2026. In 58 developing countries, including India, electricity from wind and solar is already cheaper than electricity from fossil fuels. (Bloomberg)
With our climate protection projects from India, we are supporting the climate protection efforts of the central government, which has been a real pioneer compared to Germany for years. Germany, as an alleged climate protection pioneer, is subsidising lignite-fired power generation with billions in taxpayers' money today and will probably continue to do so for decades to come.
