Sushil Kumar Shinde inaugurates MIS for monitoring hydropower projects online

Union minister for power Sushil Kumar Shinde today inaugurated Hydropowernet, a web-based management information system, to enable the power ministry to monitor online the progress of hydropower projects in the country.

Conceptualised by the ministry of power, Hydropowernet provides a platform for data sharing between various hydro utilities, the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) and the ministry.

All major organisations, which facilitate hydropower development and execution in the central sector, have been integrated in the online monitoring system.

This web-based application has been hosted at URL http://hydropowernet.gov.in on the storage area network of National Informatics Centre (NIC) for round the clock secured access with application level security through passwords.

It has remote data updation facility for all the central hydropower utilities from the remote project sites itself and most of the data is made available on-line directly from the project site itself.

In addition to on-line availability of extensive drilldown data on project construction activities, data is also available on generation, outages, collection of dues etc. for the Hydro stations in operations. The available information acts as a valuable Management Information Tool (MIS) and also provides inputs for informed decision making.