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NHPC to be 10-Gw company by 2022, plans Rs 3,800-cr capex for next FY

Company is looking at more stressed assets like JAL Power unit in Sikkim

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Shreya Jai New Delhi
State-owned hydro power major NHPC plans to become a 10-Gw company by 2022. The company has planned a capex of Rs 3,800 crore for the next financial year. 

Currently, NHPC operates 7 Gw of hydro power units. It recently acquired the stressed hydro power unit of Lanco in Sikkim. Company executives said they were also eyeing the stressed unit of JAL Power in Sikkim. 

In the current financial year, it had a capex realisation of 70 per cent against the capex of Rs 2,577 crore. In FY20, it plans to construct 200 Mw of greenfield units. Recently, NHPC received nod of the

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