{"id":87160,"date":"2025-03-22T22:04:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T16:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/?p=87160"},"modified":"2025-03-22T22:04:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T16:34:55","slug":"out-of-14867-mws-of-identified-hydropower-in-jk-only-3540-mws-harnessed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/22\/out-of-14867-mws-of-identified-hydropower-in-jk-only-3540-mws-harnessed\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of 14867 MWs of identified hydropower in J&#038;K, only 3540 MWs harnessed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NHPC tops the list with 2250 MWs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jammu, Mar 22 (KNO): With 14867 megawatts of hydropower potential coursing through its waters, J&amp;K has potential to become a powerhouse of clean energy in India. Yet, despite this vast promise, only a fraction\u20143,500 megawatts\u2014has been harnessed to date. Of this, a significant share of 2250 megawatts has been developed by the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Jammu &amp; Kashmir Government on Saturday informed the Legislative Assembly that the UT of J&amp;K has estimated hydropower potential of 18000 megawatts, out of which 14867 megawatts have been identified.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a written reply to question of MLA Eidgah, as per news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Minister in-charge, Power Development Department, Omar Abdullah informed the House that 11283 MWs of hydropower have been identified in Chenab Valley, 3084 MWs in Jehlum basin and 500 MWs in Ravi basin.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The minister informed the House that only 3540.15 MWs have been harnessed till date. Of which 2250 MWs have been harnessed in the Central sector, 1197. 4 MWs in the UT sector and 92. 75 MWs in Independent Power Producers of mode.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Out of 31 power projects in J&amp;K, NHPC manages six projects, J&amp;K State Power Development Corporation 13 projects and Independent Power Producers (IPP) 12 projects\u2014(KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NHPC tops the list with 2250 MWs Jammu, Mar 22 (KNO): With 14867 megawatts of hydropower potential coursing through its waters, J&amp;K has potential to become a powerhouse of clean energy in India. Yet, despite this vast promise, only a fraction&mdash;3,500 megawatts&mdash;has been harnessed to date. Of this, a significant share of 2250 megawatts has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jammu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87161,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87160\/revisions\/87161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khushalekashmir.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}