India has approved a high-capacity power transmission corridor to transport clean electricity from renewable energy hubs in the western region to expanding industrial and urban centres in the east. 

India’s national transmission panel has approved a project to build a 1,150-kilovolt (kV) power network, which would be the country’s highest-voltage power network system. The project is estimated to cost nearly 688 billion rupees ($7.34 billion) and take about six years to complete. 

The new network would allow much larger volumes of electricity to be dispatched nationwide than the present 765-kV lines, which would need more transmission corridors and land to carry the same load. By contrast, a 1,150-kV network can move substantially more power along fewer lines and less land, with smaller transmission losses. 

The plan comes as India adds renewable energy at a record pace, along with battery storage, in its push to reach 500 gigawatts of non-fossil power generation by 2030, up from more than 300 GW now. It also reflects a regional mismatch: renewable capacity is expanding rapidly in western states such as Rajasthan, while electricity demand is rising in eastern industrial hubs such as Odisha. 

The first phase will link Chhattisgarh, Odisha and West Bengal and connect with a 6,000-megawatt high-voltage transmission system carrying renewable power from Rajasthan’s Bhadla solar region.

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