Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (Powergrid) said that its board of directors has sanctioned an INR 327.71 crores for a transmission project in Gujarat, which involves linking one of its pooling stations with the Jamnagar oil refinery of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL). The pooling station is the Jam khambhaliya ISTS PS located in Khambhalia […]
Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (POWERGRID) has prevailed as the successful bidder for a power transmission project that will evacuate 8.1GW power from solar energy zones in Rajasthan. According to the Indian government-owned power transmission company, the award is under tariff based competitive bidding to set up a transmission system for “System Strengthening Transmission […]
Hitachi ABB Power Grids in India said that it has commissioned a 6GW ultra-high voltage direct current transmission link (UHVDC project) for Power Grid Corporation of India (POWERGRID). The company, which trades on Indian stock exchanges as ABB Power Products and Systems India Limited, said that the +/-800 kilovolt (kV) transmission line can handle the […]
Power Grid Corporation of India (POWERGRID) has acquired the holding companies for two transmission projects in Rajasthan – Sikar New Transmission Limited (SNTL) and Fatehgarh Bhadla Transco Limited. Sikar New Transmission Limited was acquired for about INR 18.54 crores. It was created to take up a transmission system strengthening scheme for evacuating the 8.1GW power […]