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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).
