DVC to start exporting power to Bangladesh

DVC to start exporting power to Bangladesh

Context:

Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) would soon begin exporting power to Bangladesh.

Details:

• DVC would soon begin exporting power to Bangladesh on the basis of a bid it had won, for supplying 300 MW
• It has won the bid through its power trading partner NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam Ltd.
• This is the first time that DVC had won a global tender for cross-border power supply
• DVC would supply power to Bangladesh from January 2020 to May 2033.
• The short-term supply would commence from June 2018 and end in December 2019.
• The line would be commissioned in June 2018
• The power would be evacuated through the 500 MW HVDC transmission line through Baharampur in West Bengal and Behrammara in Bangladesh.

Additional Information:

• DVC has an installed capacity of 7,237.2 MW
• DVC supplies power to six States (Karnataka, Kerala, Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh), apart from its two holding States (West Bengal and Jharkhand).