India : Himachal Pradesh Clean Energy Transmission Investment Program - Tranche 2
The Project proposed for financing under the requested PFR consists of:
1.New Transmission System Assets
A.Transmission Line Construction
i. 66 kV D/C Line from 66 kV Switching station at Urni to Wangtoo Sub station.
ii.220 kV Line from 33/220 kV Lahal sub station up to 220 kV Yard of Budhil HEP.
iii.220 kV D/C (Twin MOOSE) Transmission Line from Sunda to Hatkoti.
iv. 132 kV D/C (PANTHER) Transmission Line from Kangra to Dehra.
v.220 kV D/C line (Twin MOOSE) from Charor to 400/220 kV Banala sub station of PGCIL.
B.Construction of Sub Stations
i.66 kV Switching station at Urni.
ii.33/220/400 kV, 50/63 MVA P.S at Lahal.
iii.132/220 kV, 2x100 MVA Pooling Station at Sunda.
iv.132/220 kV, 1x80/100 MVA Sub Station at Charor.
Project Details
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Project Officer
Bhatt, Jigar Arvindbhai
South Asia Department
Request for information -
Country/Economy
India -
Modality
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Sector
- Energy
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Project Name | Himachal Pradesh Clean Energy Transmission Investment Program - Tranche 2 | ||||
Project Number | 43464-026 | ||||
Country / Economy | India |
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Project Status | Closed | ||||
Project Type / Modality of Assistance | Loan |
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Strategic Agendas | Environmentally sustainable growth Inclusive economic growth |
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Drivers of Change | Governance and capacity development |
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Sector / Subsector | Energy / Electricity transmission and distribution |
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Gender | No gender elements | ||||
Description | The Project proposed for financing under the requested PFR consists of: 1.New Transmission System Assets A.Transmission Line Construction i. 66 kV D/C Line from 66 kV Switching station at Urni to Wangtoo Sub station. ii.220 kV Line from 33/220 kV Lahal sub station up to 220 kV Yard of Budhil HEP. iii.220 kV D/C (Twin MOOSE) Transmission Line from Sunda to Hatkoti. iv. 132 kV D/C (PANTHER) Transmission Line from Kangra to Dehra. v.220 kV D/C line (Twin MOOSE) from Charor to 400/220 kV Banala sub station of PGCIL. B.Construction of Sub Stations i.66 kV Switching station at Urni. ii.33/220/400 kV, 50/63 MVA P.S at Lahal. iii.132/220 kV, 2x100 MVA Pooling Station at Sunda. iv.132/220 kV, 1x80/100 MVA Sub Station at Charor. |
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Project Rationale and Linkage to Country/Regional Strategy | The Indian power sector has a history of steadily increasing demand for, and chronic shortages of electricity. An adequate power supply contributes to poverty alleviation, yet over 30% of India's population lack access to electricity. Continued shortages significantly constrain commercial and industrial activity and reduce growth. Businesses and manufacturers must utilize more expensive back-up power supplies, often diesel fuel-based, which increase their costs and undercut competitiveness. Insufficient domestic fuel resources and rising international coal and oil prices threaten India's already fragile energy security, such that maximizing, clean indigenous energy sources is a government priority. Himachal Pradesh is home to about one fourth of India's hydropower potential, and maximizing this potential is articulated in the Hydropower Policy, 2007 of the Government of Himachal Pradesh (GOHP) and in their power sector roadmap, which targets its comparative advantage in hydropower with the goal to become the 'hydropower state of the country. Hydropower will benefit electricity consumers of Himachal Pradesh and throughout northern India as excess generated power flows to India's national grid. The primary alternative, namely coal-fired power generation and its associated coal mining and coal transport, have considerable adverse impacts on the environment as well as climate change, including substantial emissions of CO2 and of suspended particulate matter. The state's power sector road map encourages investment in hydropower generationthe majority of which are run-of-river typeand articulates that Himachal Pradesh must build out its electric transmission infrastructure so that the additional hydropower can be efficiently transmitted within and outside the state. As Himachal Pradesh is one of the few states in India with 100% electrification at the village level, additional hydropower capacity will not just serve the state's growing demand, but will serve the national grid through interstate power flows. As a subset of the overall sector road map, and with support from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), HPPTCL has prepared a power system master plan to articulate a transmission network expansion plan for Himachal Pradesh. This plan, endorsed by India's Central Electricity Authority (CEA), provides a sound basis for investment in transmission facilities, and is expected to engender confidence among existing and potential private hydropower developers that sufficient transmission capacity will be available to evacuate power from hydropower facilities to markets outside of Himachal Pradesh. The investment program thus consists of transmission system investments, and a capacity development program for HPPTCL as the state transmission utility. |
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Impact | Increased electricity transmission in Himachal Pradesh. |
Project Outcome | |
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Description of Outcome | Improved capacity of HPPTCL to transmit electricity from hydropower generation sources within and outside of Himachal Pradesh. |
Progress Toward Outcome | Works related to two substation and three Transmission line has been completed. Construction of two transmission line and two substation project are under implementation. |
Implementation Progress | |
Description of Project Outputs | New Transmission system assets are operational. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, phase II and additional IT hardware installed in HPPTCL corporate facilities and are operational. Capacity of HPPTCL personnel on project management, and transmission utility operations improved. |
Status of Implementation Progress (Outputs, Activities, and Issues) | (i) Work for 10-TL (66 kV Urni to Wangtoo transmission line) signed on 11 March 2015. It has achieved overall physical progress of around 75%. (ii) Work for 11-TL (220 kV Lahal to Budhil transmission line) signed on 9 May 2015 and all works related to construction of transmission line has been completed. (iii) Work for 12-TL (220 kV Charor to Banala transmission line) signed on 7 April 2015. All works related to construction of transmission line has been completed. (iv) Work of 33/132, 2x25/31.5 MVA GIS substation at Chambi (Shahpur) was shifted to Tranche 1. (v) Work of 132 Kv line from Kangra to Dera (20-TL) is completed. (vi) Work for 15-TL (220 kV Sunda to Hatkoti transmission line) signed on 11 August 2015. It has achieved overall physical progress of around 95%. (vii) Work for 7-SS (66 kV Urni switching station) signed on 11 July 2014. All works related to substation has been completed. (viii) Work for 9-SS (400 kV GIS Lahal substation) signed on 4 February 2015. All works related to substation has been completed. (ix) Contract for 28-SS (220 kV GIS Sunda substation) has been signed on 3 May 2018. Engineering Drawings and Vendor Approval under process and It has achieved overall physical progress of around 35%. (x) Contract for 27-SS (220 kV GIS Charor substation) has been signed on 17 April 2018. Engineering Drawings and Vendor Approval under process and It has achieved overall physical progress of around 22%. (x)i Contract for revised bid as 27-SS has been signed on 17 April 2018. Engineering Drawings and Vendor Approval under process. It has achieved overall physical progress of around 12%. (xii) Training program is under progress. |
Geographical Location | Allain Duhangan Hydroelectric Plant, Banala, Banjal, Barshaini, Chamba, Charrour Nallah, Hatkoti, Kangra, Kangra, Kinnaur, Kulu, Kurthala, Lahal, Mundla, Palchan, Pandoh, Shahpur, Shimla district, Sunda, Urni, Wangtu |
Safeguard Categories | |
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Environment | B |
Involuntary Resettlement | B |
Indigenous Peoples | C |
Summary of Environmental and Social Aspects | |
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Environmental Aspects | The civil construction work is limited to building foundations for the transmission towers, and substations, and the tranche 2 project does not come within any national parks, sanctuaries and bio-spheres. Based on the environmental assessment and surveys, associated potential adverse environmental impacts are minimal and can be mitigated through implementation of the environmental management plan (EMP). An adequate budgetary provision in the tranche 2 project covers the environmental mitigation and monitoring requirements, and the EMP is part of the construction contracts. HPPTCL will supervise the construction contracts and EMP implementation, and semiannual progress reports of its implementation will be submitted to ADB. Overall, the major social and environmental impacts associated with the tranche 2 project are limited to the construction period and can be mitigated to an acceptable level by implementation of recommended engineering measures and environmental practices. |
Involuntary Resettlement | The sub-projects under Tranche 2 do not have any significant involuntary resettlement impacts and the project overall has been categorized as B' for involuntary resettlement (IR) in accordance with the ADB's Safeguard Policy Statement, 2009. All the four sub-stations are being constructed on the privately-owned land measuring 6.74 hectares and five transmission lines of total length 72.77 km requires construction of towers of 234 towers of which 82 towers are in the privately-owned land while 116 towers are on forest land. |
Indigenous Peoples | As the project has been classified as indigenous peoples category C, no separate indigenous peoples plan was prepared. However, the resettlement plan contains specific measures through additional entitlements accorded to scheduled tribes who are considered as vulnerable groups should any be affected in the future, although this is not expected. |
Stakeholder Communication, Participation, and Consultation | |
During Project Design | Consultations were carried out with stakeholders from February to September 2012 during the preparatory safeguard due-diligence work. As an integral part of the safeguards planning process, affected persons and local communities were consulted during the preparation of Tranche 2 safeguards documents, i.e., the resettlement plan (RP) and initial environmental examination (IEE). Public consultations with the project affected communities, stakeholders, and government officials were carried out around the proposed transmission line/substations. HPPTCL will provide relevant resettlement information in a timely manner in an accessible place and in a form and language (Hindi/English) understandable to affected persons and other stakeholders. The draft and final RP will be disclosed on ADB's website and HPPTCL's website. |
During Project Implementation | All stakeholders were informed and the stream of consultation and disclosure of information will continue during the implementation of the project. |
Responsible ADB Officer | Bhatt, Jigar Arvindbhai |
Responsible ADB Department | South Asia Department |
Responsible ADB Division | India Resident Mission (INRM) |
Executing Agencies |
Himachal Pradesh Power Transmission Corporation Limited |
Timetable | |
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Concept Clearance | - |
Fact Finding | - |
MRM | - |
Approval | 07 May 2013 |
Last Review Mission | - |
Last PDS Update | 24 Mar 2020 |
Loan 3001-IND
Milestones | |||||
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Approval | Signing Date | Effectivity Date | Closing | ||
Original | Revised | Actual | |||
07 May 2013 | 29 Sep 2014 | 13 Nov 2014 | 30 Jun 2018 | 30 Jun 2020 | 16 Dec 2020 |
Financing Plan | Loan Utilization | ||||
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Total (Amount in US$ million) | Date | ADB | Others | Net Percentage | |
Project Cost | 146.30 | Cumulative Contract Awards | |||
ADB | 110.00 | 17 Jun 2022 | 78.35 | 0.00 | 100% |
Counterpart | 36.30 | Cumulative Disbursements | |||
Cofinancing | 0.00 | 17 Jun 2022 | 78.35 | 0.00 | 100% |
Status of Covenants | ||||||
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Category | Sector | Safeguards | Social | Financial | Economic | Others |
Rating | Satisfactory | Satisfactory | Satisfactory | Satisfactory | - | Satisfactory |
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Tenders
Tender Title | Type | Status | Posting Date | Deadline |
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Loan No. 3001-IND: Himachal Pradesh Clean Energy Transmission Investment Program – Tranche 2 [28 - SS / ADB / HPPTCL / 220 kV GIS SUNDA] | Invitation for Bids | Closed |
Contracts Awarded
Contract Title | Approval Number | Contract Date | Contractor | Address | Executing Agency | Total Contract Amount (US$) | Contract Amount Financed by ADB (US$) |
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SUNDA SUBSTATION PROJECT | Loan 3001 | 04 May 2018 | M/S TBEA ENERGY(INDIA) JV | TBEA GREEN ENERGY PARK, NH NO.8 VILLAGE MIYAGAM,KARJAN,GUJARAT INDIA | Himachal Pradesh Power Transmission Corp. Ltd. | 9,481,243.00 | 9,444,181.00 |
27-SS CHAROR GIS SUBSTATION | Loan 3001 | 23 Apr 2018 | M/S KANOHAR ELECTRICAL LIMITED | RITHANI,DELHI ROAD MEERUT, 250103 U.P. INDIA | Himachal Pradesh Power Transmission Corp. Ltd. | 10,342,245.00 | 10,176,872.00 |
Procurement Plan
Title | Document Type | Document Date |
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Himachal Pradesh Clean Energy Transmission Investment Program - Tranche 2: Procurement Plan | Procurement Plans | Dec 2016 |