DEHRA DUN, APRIL 14:
A US-based company has claimed to have generated power from canals in Uttarakhand.
DLZ Power Pvt Ltd has claimed that it has successfully generated 25 Kw of power by putting up a hydrokinetic turbine machine at Shakti Canal near Chila power house, 55 km from here. The machine remains floated with the help of pontoons in order to generate power.
The machine, which weighs 4.5 tonnes, is designed to produce power from the velocity produced by running waters of the canal. At the Shakti Canal, the average velocity of water is 2 meter per second which is enough to generate power, said Mr Nitin Singhal, Project in-charge of DLZ.
The project was started in January this year. The company is currently holding trials at Chila canal and the results are positive, he claimed. “Our company has been able to generate 25 Kw of energy successfully at Shakti Canal,” Mr Singhal said.
In Shakti Canal alone, such floating turbine machines, which remain stationary with the help of anchors, can be put up at a distance of 100 metre from one another in order to generate more power. In Shakti Canal, an estimated 5 Mw of power can be produced.
Asked about the viability of such machines, he said: “I can say it is very much viable.”
All machines are being imported from abroad which have been manufactured by the Canada-based New Energy Corporation with which DLZ has entered into a joint collaboration. DLZ is working in the hydropower sector.
