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ITANAGAR, 22 Jul:<\/strong> India’s first fully indigenous geothermal power plant will be developed in Arunachal Pradesh, officials said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n The 50-kw plant will be developed at a record low of 68 degrees Celsius, they said.<\/p>\n In this regard, the Centre for Earth Sciences and Himalayan Studies (CESHS) and Shriram Institute for Industrial Research have inked a memorandum of understanding.<\/p>\n CESHS Geoscience Chief Rupankar Rajkhowa said the project will come up in Tawang district.<\/p>\n “We have already identified three places – Mago, Thingbu and Damteng – and the research and structural mapping have been done,” he said, adding that the project will cater to a population of over 5,000.<\/p>\n Rajkhowa said the project is expected to be completed in three years.<\/p>\n Stating that it’s a first-of-its-kind in the Himalayan region, he said that the project will be completed at a cost of over Rs 10 crore, funded by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.<\/p>\n A team of scientists from the CESHS, led by its Director Tana Tage, recently visited the demonstration site of an indigenously developed 20-kw geothermal power plant at the SIIR.<\/p>\n SIIR geothermal project manager Bhupesh Sharma said that multiple trials have been conducted using a smaller 5-kw lab-scale model to better understand the operational challenges of indigenous bipolar process technology, particularly at a lower temperature of just 68 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n \u00a0Chief Minister Pema Khandu said, “Arunachal Pradesh and CESHS take a visionary step by signing an MoU to develop India’s first fully indigenous 50kw geothermal power plant at a record low of 68 degrees C. Harnessing Earth’s energy, driving innovation, and leading India’s clean energy revolution from the Himalayas!”<\/p>\n “It will be a milestone in clean energy and geothermal research,” he added.<\/p>\n Established in 2021 under the Department of Science and Technology, the CESHS is dedicated to research in climatology, geoscience, hydrology, and renewable energy. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ITANAGAR, 22 Jul: India’s first fully indigenous geothermal power plant will be developed in Arunachal Pradesh, officials said on Tuesday. The 50-kw plant will be developed at a record low of 68 degrees Celsius, they said. In this regard, the Centre for Earth Sciences and Himalayan Studies (CESHS) and Shriram Institute for Industrial Research have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-267626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}