The Government of India has decided to acquire an increasing portion of the additional power required from the country’s vast untapped hydropower resources, only 23 percent of which has been harnessed so far. India’s energy portfolio today depends heavily on coal-based thermal energy, with hydropower accounting for only 26 percent of total power generation. The Government of India has set the target for India’s optimum power system mix at 40 percent from hydropower and 60 percent from other sources.
While India plans to develop mainly run-of-the-river projects, multipurpose hydropower plants with water storage facilities can help manage critical water resources in an integrated manner by serving as flood controllers as well as sources of irrigation and much-needed drinking water. Apart from this a set of pumped-storage power plants are planned.
BE SHiRO owns a project portofolio for developing various small hydro power plants with a high return. Our policy is to build plants not larger than 25 MW so as to keep the environmental impact to a minimum.