NHPC signs MoA with CSIR-CSIO Chandigarh for R&D collaboration

New Delhi: NHPC Limited, India's premier hydropower company has signed a memorandum of agreement (MoA) with CSIR-CSIO Chandigarh on September 10, through video-conference for research and development (R&D) collaboration.

The MoA has been signed by NHPC Limited's  General Manager (Incharge, R&D Division) RR Yadav and Dr Surender S Saini, Senior Principal Scientist & Head (BDPM), CSIR-CSIO Chandigarh in the presence of NHPC Limited's Director (Technical) YK Chaubey and CSIR-CSIO Chandigarh's Director Prof. SA Ramakrishna.

The agreement details the terms and conditions, modalities for providing research, development and consultancy services by CSIR-CSIO Chandigarh in its areas of expertise to NHPC as mutually agreed.

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Each assignment under the MOA given by NHPC to CSIR-CSIO Chandigarh will be considered in the form of the individual project and the terms and conditions for the same would be finalized on case to case basis.

Speaking about the importance of this collaboration, Chaubey said, "We are entering into this partnership for research areas of application of remote sensing at a different stage of project development, a monitoring system for online measurement of turbine efficiency and study of reservoir triggered seismicity due to hydropower projects."

Speaking about the Ramakrishna said, "I am very happy that NHPC has come with the shared vision and this collaboration will help in finding solutions to the practical problems of hydropower sector through scientific research by NHPC and CSIR-CSIO Chandigarh."

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