UJVNL hopes to emerge as country’s leading power generating govt company 

Uttarakhand Jal Vidyut Nigam Limited (UJVNL), the state’s largest power generating body, announced on Thursday that it will strive to become one of the leading power producers in the country. Its newly-appointed Managing Director Ajay Kumar Singh stated that the state government-owned company will hammer out new pathways to fulfill this endeavour.

Assuming his charge as the new Managing Director of UJVNL, Singh said his team would strive hard to ensure that the company emerges as a premium power-generating enterprise in the country. If needed the company will widen its scope of work in the coming days. “Our objective is to bring UJVN among the country’s leading, technically capable and financially sound power enterprises. We will work upon action plans to accelerate state government’s vision for making Uttarakhand self-reliant in energy production sector.”

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He stressed that his highest priority as the company’s head would be to expedite, complete and commission all under-construction hydropower projects in accordance with the prescribed time limits, quality and cost standards. Lakhwar Hydropower Project on the Yamuna River is important not merely for Uttarakhand but for the nation as well. This project is important because it will benefit several northern states by providing water for irrigation and drinking, in addition to power generation.

“Better coordination will be established with all concerned agencies for its time-bound and effective implementation soon. New MD of UJVNL informed that generation capacity and reliability of all older hydropower projects will also be enhanced by their renovation, modernisation, upgradation (RMU) works. Along with this, the expansion of solar power projects, green hydrogen, Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) and geothermal energy projects will be taken up on a wider scale in the coming days,” he added.

“UJVNL will also explore to widen its scope of works in addition to the ongoing projects within the state and outside as well. Our goal is to make Uttarakhand an energy-surplus state and provide more employment to the youths of the Himalayan state ” said Singh.
According to Singh works will be undertaken in phases with time-bound action plan for the development of pumped storage projects.