PGCIL commissions Ranchi-Sipat transmission line

New Delhi: State-run transmission firm Power Grid Corporation of India (PGCIL) has commissioned the Ranchi-Sipat transmission line, a key link that would enhance power transfer to 3,000 MW between eastern and western regions.

PGCIL on December 31 commissioned Ranchi-Sipat transmission line enhancing power transfer capacity from 1,200 MW to 3,000 MW between eastern and western regions, a company statement said here.

With this achievement, total inter-regional power transfer capacity of the National Grid has been enhanced to 18,700 MW from 17,000 MW.

PGCIL plans to enhance it further to more than 37,000 MW by the end of Eleventh Plan at an investment of Rs 55,000 crore.