If the proposed power grid interconnection finalized then this would be the second cross-border electricity transmission link between India and Bangladesh, reported bdnews24.com.
The two countries are already developing a grid interconnection between India’s Berhampur and Bangladesh’s Bheramara with up to 500MW power transmission capacity.
The proposed second grid interconnection would have a capacity to transmit about 130MW power, according to Bangladesh’s High Commissioner to India Tariq A Karim.
This transmission link was one of the several power grid interconnections proposed in a January 2005 study prepared for the US Agency for International Development.
Meghalaya chief minister Dr. Mukul M Sangma told Karim that several power projects would come up in the state in future and the grid interconnection would facilitate supply of surplus power across the border.
