Largest hydropower plants in India
416 hydro records for India carry a capacity figure: 108.3 GW in total, 58.6 GW of it operating across 325 records. Operating and announced are ranked separately. Every row links to its record and its public source; the country as a whole is on the India market page.
Largest operating hydropower plants in India
Watch India hydro. One email when a project on this ranking moves stage, is corrected, or a larger one is added.
Under construction or announced
The India hydro records as a file
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Questions about hydro in India
What is the largest hydropower plant in India?+
The largest operating hydropower plant on record in India is Koyna Complex at 1,956 MW. Ranked by the capacity figure in the public source named on the record, whole project rather than any partner's share.
What is the largest hydropower plant planned in India?+
Siang Upper hydroelectric plant at 10,000 MW, at concept stage. Of the 108.3 GW of hydro on record for India, 58.6 GW is operating; the rest is announced or being built.
How many hydropower plants does India have?+
Solandor holds 416 hydro records for India with a stated capacity, 325 of them operating. That is the public record from the datasets named on each row, not a census: small plants below tracker thresholds are missing from the sources and so from here.
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