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Saturday, Jun 18, 2005
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Power PowerGrid to enhance capacity to 12,000 MW Our Bureau
New Delhi , June 17 STATE-owned transmission utility Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd plans to enhance its grid infrastructure capacity to allow inter-regional transfers of around 12,000 MW by the end of this year, enabling additional regional transfers of around 2,500 MW. "At present, we have an inter-regional capacity of 9,500 MW and by December or so we would have a capacity of 12,000 MW," the PowerGrid Chairman and Managing Director, Mr R.P. Singh, said at a workshop here. The central transmission utility aimsto take the inter-regional electricity transfer capacity to 30,000 MW by the end of the 11th Plan in 2012. The task of setting up this country-wide electricity grid, termed the National Grid project, will require an investment of nearly Rs 70,000 crore. PowerGrid will chip in with Rs 50,000 crore, while the rest is expected to come from private players. Mr Singh said the 30,000-MW National Grid would help save about Rs 52,000 crore which is necessary to add about 13,000 MW of generation capacity. To strengthen its transmission network, PowerGrid is also modernising its load dispatch centres, said Mr Singh
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