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India Approves $7.3 Billion High-Capacity Power Link to Back Renewables
- India has just approved plans for a high-capacity power transmission corridor to help bring electricity from generation to demand centers.
- The 1,150-kilovolt (kV) system, which will be India’s highest-voltage power corridor, is expected to cost about $7.34 billion (688 billion Indian rupees).
- At present, most of India’s transmission network consists of 765-kV lines.
- The plan, approved by the national transmission panel this week, is estimated to take about six years to build.
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