India approves $7.3 billion transmission corridor for renewable power

India's national transmission panel has approved a 1,150-kilovolt power corridor costing about $7.34 billion (688 billion rupees) to move western solar and wind power to eastern industrial states.

Why it matters: Transmission, not generation, is the binding constraint on India's renewable buildout, with curtailment rising as solar and wind capacity outruns the grid; the corridor would be the country's highest-voltage link and take about six years to build.

Data as of Reuters reporting carried by OilPrice.com on November 11, 2026, read in full in this run; the transmission panel's own approval document was not located in this run, so the figures rest on that single wire route. Developing item.

India’s national transmission panel has approved a high-capacity power corridor built to 1,150 kilovolts, the country’s highest voltage level, at an estimated cost of $7.34 billion (688 billion rupees), Reuters reported. The first phase would connect Chhattisgarh, Odisha and West Bengal and link into a 6,000-megawatt high-voltage system, carrying solar and wind power from western states such as Rajasthan to industrial demand centres in the east. The project is expected to take about six years to build; most of India’s existing transmission network runs at 765 kilovolts.

The approval addresses a widening mismatch in the world’s third-largest electricity market: India passed 300 gigawatts of non-fossil capacity this year on its way to a 500-gigawatt 2030 target, but grid and storage constraints forced curtailment of as much as 118.6 gigawatts of solar and wind capacity in September, according to JMK Research & Analytics data cited in the report.

India approves $7.3 billion transmission corridor for renewable power

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