Capacity Development for Monitoring of Hydropower Plant Safety



Contract partner: GNHC / RGoB - Gross National Happiness Commission - Royal Government of Bhutan Country: Bhutan Funding amount: € 1.287.420,00 Project start: 01.11.2014 End: 31.03.2019

Short Description:

Overall goal


Through this project it will be secured that the current power generation of 1.480 MW and the functionality of future hydropower plants will ensure reliable uninterrupted supply of electricity for more than 80.000 Bhutanese households and maintain at least 18 percent of total revenues of the state earned from export of electricity to India.

Geotechnical monitoring systems for the safety of hydropower has not been considered to date. This project will safeguard and minimize risks to existing hydropower plants, provide a prudent foresight and early warning system and will ultimately ensure the reliability of the energy supply. And the in-house capacity of Druk Green Power Corporation will be strengthened with the aim to monitor the safety of hydropower projects and to manage underground structures to ensure that catastrophic accidents are prevented by timely implementation of remedies.

The main results will be

- the development and implementation of guidelines for the safety management of hydropower plants including parameters for monitoring;

- the implementation of a training programme by providing training to 2 engineers in Austria on basic principles of monitoring; training of 2 DGPCs survey engineers on precision measurement of settlement, movement of civil and other structures; training of 8 engineers for measurements and their interpretation and Master’s programme in Austria for 2 DGPC engineers in the area of New Austrian Tunneling Method and

- the Development of a curriculum for the College of Science and Technology in Bhutan on geotechnical monitoring systems.

The main beneficiaries are DGPC, 14 trained engineers, electrical, geological engineering students and relevant teachers of the College of Science and Technology.

The contribution is in line with the Austria – Bhutan Country Strategy 2014-2018 and projected under the 11th Five Year Plan of the Royal Government of Bhutan.

project number 2296-00/2014
source of funding OEZA
sector Energiegewinnung /erneuerbare Energiequellen
tied
modality
marker
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    • 1= policy is a significant objective of the activity
    • 2= policy is the principal objective of the activity
  • Donor/ source of funding: The ADA is not only implementing projects and programmes of the Austrian Development Cooperation , but also projects funded from other sources and donors such as
    • AKF - Foreign Disaster Fund of the Austrian federal government
    • BMLFUW - Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water
    • EU - Funds of the European Commission
    • Others - various other donors are listed in ADA’s annual business report.
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  • Purpose/ sector code: classifies the specific area of the recipient’s economic or social structure, funded by a bilateral contribution.
  • Tied/Untied: Untied aid is defined as loans and grants whose proceeds are fully and freely available to finance procurement from all OECD countries and substantially all developing countries. Transactions are considered tied unless the donor has, at the time of the aid offer, clearly specified a range of countries eligible for procurement which meets the tests for “untied” aid.
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