As a company, Puri Oil Mills Limited (the parent company of POM Hydro Energy Limited) has always adopted contemporary best practices, innovation and technology. It has always moved with the times. It was, in fact, this very outlook that enabled the company to take the right step of diversifying into the Hydropower Sector, anticipating the global energy demand. The foray into hydropower generation proved to be both lucrative as well as a robust business decision.

The experience of commissioning three micro hydropower projects, gaining competence in both run-of-the-river and irrigation canals in the process, was invaluable. We realized that we had repaid most of our debt. Our bottom lines grew and so did our confidence and we decided to move away from micro to small projects and were allotted a 14MW project at Uhl in the Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh.