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The Maharashtra Goverment signed India's Largest Hydro Electric project in India, the 10,000 crore rupees, 2,700 MW Dam, at The Kolhapur.
The Maharashtra government signed an MoU worth 10,000 crore rupees for setting up energy project in the state. Now has received an in principle nod from the union environment ministry’s expert appraisal committee EAC for the 2,700 MW Patgaon pumped storage plant in the Kolhapur on river valley and hydroelectric projects.
An environmental impact assessment EIA and social impact assessment will be carried out to gauge the dam’s impact on the surrounding ecology and wildlife, and to identify the number of project affected persons in the 10 KMs radius of the dam. About 180 acres of land requirement will be diverted from existing forest areas.
The project site is located in the lower slope in the Western Ghats, and electricity generated here is proposed to be transported to substations in Kolhapur and Goa. The project will consist of two water reservoirs created at different elevations one of which the Patgaon Lake built by harnessing the Vedganga River in 1998, an east flowing tributary of the Krishna with a turbine between the two to generate power as water is discharged over it. The water will then be pumped back from the lower reservoir to the upper reservoir for future use.
The scheme will involve using the existing Patgaon Lake as upper reservoir with 105 MM3 as gross capacity. The lower reservoir in this project envisages construction of Concrete/Colgrout masonry dam with the maximum height of 57.5 m for short reach for creation of lower reservoir of 13.75 MM 3 gross capacity. The Patgaon PSH is proposed in between the two reservoirs. And the required quantum of water for power generation will get stored in the reservoir through seasonal flow of water, states a copy of the project’s pre feasibility report.
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