The Heat Beneath Ladakh: ONGC’s Second Puga Well Revives India’s Oldest Clean Energy Promise
ONGC has completed drilling its second geothermal well in Ladakh's Puga Valley at 1,000 metres deep, at over 14,000 feet, in roughly a month — clearing the path for India's first 1 MW pilot geothermal power plant. For a Himalayan region that still runs on trucked-in diesel through brutal winters, the hole in the ground matters more than its modest megawatt suggests.































