BHEL completes construction of sub-station at Raichur.

State-run BHEL has completed building a transmission sub-station in Karnataka, a link that connects the southern and national electricity grids.

'BHEL has completed the construction of a sub-station at Raichur in Karnataka, the southern end of the Raichur-Solapur transmission link of PowerGrid,' the company said in a statement recently.

The Government had said on January 1 that the southern grid had been linked with the national grid following the commissioning of the Raichur-Solapur transmission line. The line had been commissioned five months ahead of the May 31, 2014, deadline at a cost of about Rs. 815 crore.

BHEL's work on the project include design, engineering, manufacturing, supply, erection, testing and commissioning of the substation.

HBL