These hydropower plants are run-of-river plants, and eligible for carbon credit.
With state-owned 135 plants, the Department has power worth 74.88 million units, which is equivalent to 54,410 Carbon Credits annually and can earn approximately Rs 1.15 crore at present rate.
“We expect to get credits somewhere in 3-4 months or at max, six months.
Recently, Arunachal Pradesh has announced 50 micro and mini hydropower projects under the Golden Jubilee Border Village Illumination programme in a phased manner.
“Our small hydro installation is 80MW out of which 50 MW is eligible as they are commissioned after 2002.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had last November announced that India aims at achieving net zero target by 2070.
Micro-hydro projects are those up to 200 KW capacity, mini up to 2 MW and small up to 25 MW.
Of the three-stage process of registration, credit realisation and trading, the state is through with the first one.
Once that is done, trading can be done any time,” state’s Commissioner, Hydropower and Planning, Prashant Lokhande told IANS.
In the first phase, 17 micro and mini hydropower projects with installed capacity of 1,255 KW are planned.
However, we will also ask NEEPCO to go for the same for 600 MW Kameng and 110 MW Pare hydropower projects,” Lokhande added.
Net zero means extracting carbon from the atmosphere or preventing carbon emission as much as a given unit consumes – be it a small factory, a town, or a country.