LEH: The government on Wednesday approved construction of 713-km transmission line at an investment of Rs 20,773 crore for wheeling electricity from a 13 gigawatts (GW) solar power-cum-12 GW-hour battery storage project proposed to be built in Ladakh, first reported by TOI on January 13, 2019.
According to the decision taken by the Cabinet’s panel on economic matters, the Centre will provide viability gap funding of Rs 8,309 crore, or 40% of the project cost, to keep transmission tariff affordable.
The approval also includes building of an interconnect to link for feeding power from the project into the grid in Leh.
