Even as capacity addition in power transmission is crucial to support the upcoming renewable generation capacities and make transmission infrastructure more flexible to accommodate the evolving trends in power consumption, the pace of adding new electricity lines has hit a four-year low in FY19. A total of 22,437 circuit kilometre (ckm) of transmission lines have been added in the fiscal, 3% lower than in FY18.
Similarly, the addition of 72,705 mega volt amp (MVA) of sub-stations commissioned in FY19 is about 16% lower than that in the previous fiscal, and the slowest pace recorded since FY16. Contrary to their state-run counterparts, the private sector players have laid down 66% more transmission lines year-on-year (y-o-y) by commissioning 3,840 ckm in FY19.
