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PGCIL to Invest INR 5800 Crores in Gujarat

Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL) will invest INR 5,800 crores for upgrading its network in Gujarat over the next three to four years to increase the number of Extra High Voltage (EHV) substations to twelve from the existing five. Investment will also be used for increasing the transmission capacity to 19,000 MVA from the existing 4,000 MVA. The transmission lines shall be expanded to 7,575 km in Gujarat from the existing 5,610 km.

For the country-level projects, eleven High Capacity Power Transmission Corridors (HCPTCs) have been planned to meet bulk power evacuation requirement of various independent power producers (IPPs), mainly coming up in resource-rich states like Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Sikkim, Jharkhand, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh at an estimated cost of INR 66,000 crores.

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