Setting up a transnational grid interconnection system will make round-the-clock (RTC) clean energy supply cheaper and reduce the dependence on storage, Union Minister of PowerR K Singh said on Wednesday at a conference on ‘Transnational Grid Interconnections for One Sun, One World, One Grid (OSOWOG)’. The initiative aims at connecting energy supply across borders.
Special Secretary & Financial Adviser, Ministry of Power, Ashish Upadhyaya; CEA Chairperson Ghanshyam Prasad; Additional Power Secretary Ajay Tewari; Grid-India CMD S R Narasimhan and CMD of POWERGRID K Sreekant were among those who attended the conference.
India has already established cross-border interconnections with its neighbors and strengthening of various cross-border links is under process, Singh said.
Public sector enterprise Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (POWERGRID) organized the summit in the run up to the G20 Summit which is scheduled to be held from September 8-10, 2023.
The idea for the One Sun One World One Grid (OSOWOG) initiative was put forth by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the first assembly of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) in October 2018.
