Author: PPD Team Date: 04/04/2025
Rajasthan Part I Power Transmission, a subsidiary of Adani Energy Solutions, has awarded a major contract to a consortium of Hitachi Energy and Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) for the development of a high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission system.
The project will support evacuation of 6 GW of renewable energy from the Bhadla renewable energy zone in Rajasthan to Fatehpur in Uttar Pradesh.
The ±800 kV, 950 km bi-pole, bi-directional HVDC transmission line falls under the “Transmission system for evacuation of power from REZ in Rajasthan (20 GW) under Phase-III Part I.” It will enable controlled two-way power flow, essential for balancing the growing share of renewable energy in India’s power grid.
BHEL will supply major components including converter transformers, shunt reactors, filter bank capacitors, MV switchgear, and instrument transformers from its Bhopal plant, and thyristor valves from its Electronics Division in Bengaluru. These valves will convert alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC) at the Bhadla end, enabling long-distance transmission, before conversion back to AC at Fatehpur.
BHEL’s Transmission Business Group will also design, supply, and install the 765 kV/400 kV power evacuation system at Fatehpur and the 400 kV AC substations at Bhadla and Bhadla Extension.
This is the consortium’s second award for this project. On February 9, 2025, the same consortium received a Letter of Intent (LoI) for the design and execution of two ±800 kV HVDC line commutated converter (LCC) terminal stations of 6,000 MW capacity at Bhadla and Fatehpur, with four 1,500 MW converter units each.
The project is scheduled for completion by 2029.