Archive · 5 Aug 2026
PM Narendra Modi dedicates POWERGRID transmission projects in Andhra Pradesh
India's Prime Minister visited the state of Andhra Pradesh to celebrate new electricity projects.
These projects are like giant power highways that carry electricity made from wind and sunlight.
Two of the projects are finished, and the Prime Minister officially opened them.
He also placed a special foundation stone to start work on a third project.
The projects carry clean energy from places called Kurnool and Ananthapuram.
That clean energy travels across India so homes and cities can use it.
The projects cost thousands of crores of rupees to build.
India wants to get 500 gigawatts of its power from clean sources by the year 2030.
The company that runs the power lines, POWERGRID, keeps them working more than 99.80% of the time.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated two POWERGRID transmission projects and laid the foundation stone for one project in Andhra Pradesh.
The Kurnool wind/solar energy zone transmission system (part-A & B) was dedicated, developed at an investment of approximately ₹3,547 crore.
A transmission system for the solar energy zone in Ananthpuram (2,500 MW) and Kurnool (1,000 MW) was also dedicated, at roughly ₹823 crore.
The foundation stone was laid for the Kurnool-IV renewable energy zone (REZ) integration transmission system, phase-I (4.5 GW), at an investment of about ₹5,550 crore.
The projects support India's target of 500 GW of non-fossil fuel-based capacity by 2030; POWERGRID operates 291 substations and 1,86,595 ckm of lines as of June 30, 2026.
- Who
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi, along with Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, Deputy Chief Minister K. Pawan Kalyan, governors, state ministers and union ministers, for projects implemented by POWERGRID.
- What
- Dedication of two renewable energy transmission projects and the laying of the foundation stone for a third transmission project.
- When
- Not specified in the article; POWERGRID operational data cited as of June 30, 2026.
- Where
- Andhra Pradesh, India.
- Why
- To evacuate renewable energy from the Kurnool and Ananthapuram renewable energy zones into the National Grid and help India achieve 500 GW of non-fossil fuel-based installed capacity by 2030.
- Implementing agency
- Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (POWERGRID), a Maharatna PSU under the Ministry of Power
- Projects dedicated
- 2 transmission projects: Kurnool wind/solar energy zone part-A & B; Ananthpuram (2,500 MW) and Kurnool (1,000 MW) solar energy zone
- Foundation stone project
- Transmission system for Integration of Kurnool-IV renewable energy zone (REZ), phase-I (4.5 GW)
- Investment - dedicated projects
- Approximately ₹3,547 crore and ₹823 crore respectively
- Investment - foundation stone project
- Approximately ₹5,550 crore
- National target
- 500 GW of non-fossil fuel-based installed capacity by 2030
- POWERGRID network (as of June 30, 2026)
- 291 substations, 1,86,595 circuit kilometres of transmission lines, 6,34,516 MVA transformation capacity
- Transmission availability
- Over 99.80%