Centre allows Adani Power to link Godda plant with Indian grid, reports ‘The Indian Express’

The Union government has allowed Adani Power to connect its power plant in Jharkhand’s Godda district, which was so far supplying electricity only to Bangladesh, with the Indian grid, The Indian Express reported on Friday.

In 2018, the Narendra Modi government framed guidelines on generators that supply power exclusively to a neighbouring country. Adani Power’s plant in Godda was the only one that had a contractual obligation to supply all the electricity it generated to another country – in this case, Bangladesh.

The Union government’s decision allowing linking of the Godda plant with the Indian grid through a line-in-line-out arrangement would enable the Adani Group company to sell power to domestic distribution companies.

The line-in-line-out is an arrangement where a new line is connected to an existing transmission line, allowing the branching of power from the existing line to supply a new load.

The Adani plant will be connected to the Indian grid through a transmission line that will be laid over 56 villages of Godda and Poreyahat tehsils in Jharkhand, according to The Indian Express.

To this end, the Union government issued an order on September 29, giving Adani Power the same powers that the country’s telegraph authority has under the 1885 Indian Telegraph Act, reported the newspaper.

The Act allows the telegraph authority to place...

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