Powergrid secures bid for ISTS project under BOOT basis

Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (Powergrid) has been declared as the successful bidder under the TBCB mechanism to establish two interstate transmission system (ISTS) projects in build-own-operate and transfer (BOOT) mode. The first ISTS project – Transmission System for Evacuation of Power from Rajasthan REZ Ph-IV (Part-1) (Bikaner Com­plex): Part-A – co­m­prises the establishment of a new 765/400/220 kV pooling station at Bikaner-III, two 400 kV D/C and one 765 kV D/C transmission lines traver­sing the state of Rajasthan and associated bay extension works. The second project – Transmission System for Evacua­tion of Power from Rajasthan REZ Ph-IV (Part-1) (Bikaner Complex): Part-D – comprises the establishment of a new 765 kV D/C transmission line traversing the states of Raj­asthan and Uttar Pradesh along with associated bay extension works.