Green Energy Corridor Project
A Green Energy Corridor project for evacuation of renewable energy from generation points to the load centres by creating intra-state and inter-state transmission infrastructure is under implementation in renewable resource rich states for the likely renewable power capacity addition during 12thFive Year Plan period, i.e., by March 2017. This was stated by Sh. Piyush Goyal, Minister of state for Power, Coal & New and Renewable Energy (IC) in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today. The intra-state transmission component of the project is being implemented by the respective states and the Power Grid Corporation of India (PGCIL) is implementing inter-state transmission component.
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