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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).