VS Hydro

VS Hydro Pvt Ltd
Type	Private company
Industry	Hydropower
Founded	2003;19 years ago
Headquarters	Colombo , Sri Lanka
Area served	Hydropower
Products	Turbines, construction.
Website	http://www.vs.lk

Last updated February 15, 2022

VS Hydro is a company developing hydropower projects.

VSHydro is part of VS Group of companies which includes VSIS (IT), Innova (IT), VST (Turbine Manufacturing), VSC (Design Consultancy), VSE (Project Management & QS), RemediumOne (Medical Research), VSA (Control, Automation & Switch Gear Panel Manufacturing).

VSHydro traces its roots back to 1972, when Premasiri Sumanasekera, a graduate in physical science from the University of Colombo, who later became a teacher and meteorologist, started Vidya Silpa in the backyard of his residence, essentially to manufacture laboratory science equipment which was previously imported at great cost from the developed Western countries.

Manufacture of these intricate measurement instruments were started with two artisans using basic equipment and technology.

Soon the company grew from a backyard workshop to be the foremost supplier of laboratory equipment for all schools in Sri Lanka. The two man workshop in the Sumanasekera backyard grew to a large factory with 150 workers.

Projects: VS connected more than 100MW to grid in Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda) and Asia (Sri Lanka). They are expanding their operation in to other regions in Africa.

Uganda; 1. Mpanga Hydropower Project (18MW), Uganda [^[1]]^{[ better source needed ]} 2. Siti(1&2) Hydropower Project (21.5MW), Uganda [^[2]] 3. Lubilai Hydropower Project (5.4MW), Uganda [^[3]] 4. Nyamughasani 1&2 Hydropower Project(22MW), Uganda. VS is doing pre-implementation works for some other projects which are having capacity over 5MW.

Rwanda; 1. Gisenyi, Mukungwa, Ghasashi (6MW), Rwanda [^[4]]. VS is doing their pre-implementation works for several other projects in Rwanda including Rukurara, Mushishito projects.

Kenya; 1. Gura Hydropower Project (6MW), Kenya [^[5]]. VS is doing their pre-implementation works for several other projects in Kenya including Nithi, Chania projects.

Now VS Hydro expands their operations to Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Ethiopia and some other African countries too.

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[1] |http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpanga_Power_Station Mpanga SHPP

[2] |https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siti_Hydroelectric_Power_Station

[3] |https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubilia_Hydroelectric_Power_Station

[4] |https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubilia_Hydroelectric_Power_Station

[5] "Firm to construct Sh1.3 billion power plant in Central Kenya". 29 June 2020.

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