Our first foray into Brazilian territory notwithstanding, we attained financial closure for the project within a short period of time. We generated ^~800 jobs through the course of the project in the region. We obtained the required environmental license in record six-and-a-half months. What’s more, we successfully completed the project a whopping 28 months ahead of the schedule set by ANEEL. Not only did this exemplify our project execution capabilities, it helped us showcase how power infrastructure can serve the country’s grid.

Rapid urban evolution has spurred exponential demand for power. Ageing infrastructure and lack of space to set up greenfield projects is a key constraint in expanding power transmission to meet this growing demand.

The project doubled power transfer capacity of the transmission line. Uninterrupted power was ensured during execution and changeover by using bypass technique on the towers, using 'bare-hand' and 'hotstick' methods. The high-performance conductor installed in the lines provides better clearance from the ground and nearby buildings. We believe this revolutionary new solution can be scaled up and customised to address the needs of states in India with similar challenges.

Working through heavily forested lands and constructing a fully automated gas insulated substation adds to the complexity of the project.

More than 136 km line once commissioned will deliver over 3,000 MVA to parts of Gurugram and connect other substations located at Palwal, Rangla, Rajpur and adjoining areas of Meerpur and Kurah in Haryana. The aim is to satisfy the growing demand for power in the rapidly developing cities of Gurugram and Palwal – which being the manufacturing and service hubs are key to India’s economic development. Innovation in design and engineering enabled us to reduce the space footprint and preserve forested land.

Initially, our proposed transmission line overlapped with the existing lines for an industrial urban corridor. This corridor supplied power directly to vital industries in the region. Additionally, some sections of the transmission line also had severe rightof- way issues. We encountered resistance from native communities, where the line passed through tribal regions.

We obtained in all 86 statutory approvals, visiting 247 various government and private utility offices. This was the first time that a right-of-way compensation circular was released by the Odisha government for any transmission utility. Also, the OGPTL project was included in Project Monitoring Group of the Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure (CCI). In the end, we successfully commissioned the project in April 2019, three months ahead of its scheduled delivery date of July 2019, helping fulfil the state’s critical need for power infrastructure.

The existing inter-city underground fiber infrastructure in Maharashtra is along the national & state highways and are always prone to frequent cuts due to constant road expansion & maintenance activities.

MSETCL is utilizing the MTCIL OPGW network for seamless voice, data, remote monitoring, tele protection, asset management and SCADA connectivity between substations, thereby providing higher value to its end customers, i.e., Distribution Utilities. MTCIL network which rides on existing transmission corridors is highly secured, has minimum on ground RoW challenges, provides a superior alternative with unmatched uptime & service assurance.

Due to the network’s inter-operability, OPGW network can be connected to other networks within and outside the state. The network has connected nine major cities in Maharashtra with 25 districts, 208 towns, and 994 gram panchayats. It has enabled service providers in the region to provide superior end customer experience by promising uninterrupted data flow.

Smart cities needs to have reliable data connectivity to support their smart infrastructure elements. The key challenge in front of smart city authorities is to create an ecosystem of partners who can design, build, finance, operate & maintain such infrastructure through a long term public private partnership model.

Sterlite Convergence is addressing the smart city needs with its superior fiber network design, build, operations and management skills. The smart city will benefit from the faster development of the telecom grade network, low cost of ownership, and higher uptime with a reliable network. Convergence has also created an open fiber network which can be utilized by telecom service providers, ISPs and MSOs thereby minimizing environment impact as it avoids multiple digging and laying of fibers.