Energy solutions provider Apraava Energy and Jyoti Structures, an engineering, procurement, and construction firm, have announced the commissioning of two transmission projects in Rajasthan and Karnataka.

Apraava commissioned a 22-km, 400 kV Fatehgarh-IV transmission line along with a 400/220 kV pooling substation in Barmer, Rajasthan, as part of the transmission program for evacuating power from Rajasthan’s renewable energy zones (REZs) under Phase-III Part A1.

The new line connects to Apraava’s Fatehgarh-III substation, strengthening the evacuation of renewable power from the Jaisalmer–Barmer region.

The Fatehgarh-IV transmission line has an evacuation capability of 2.5 GW, enabled through five 500 MVA transformers at the pooling substation.

The company operates three transmission assets (~516 km) with 3.5 GW of substation capacity, and three greenfield projects under construction (~470 km) with nearly 8 GW of combined capacity.

Rajiv Ranjan Mishra, Managing Director at Apraava Energy, said that the Fatehgarh-IV transmission project is the company’s first greenfield transmission project of this scale.

Additionally, the company also operates three wind power projects with a combined capacity of over 250 MW in the state, while three solar projects with a total capacity of 550 MW are under construction.

Separately, Jyoti Structures commissioned the 400 kV Gadag–II transmission line project for ReNew in Karnataka.

The project includes 100 circuit kilometres of twin HTLS transmission lines connecting Gadag and Koppal power stations.

Rajesh Kumar Singh, Chief Executive Officer at Jyoti Structures, said the commissioning of the transmission line comes closely on the heels of the charging of a project for Torrent Power.

Strategically, the line is part of an interstate transmission system designed to evacuate renewable energy from the Koppal Solar Energy Zone (estimated at 1.5 GW).

Recently, the Rajasthan Electricity Regulatory Commission allowed Apraava Power to claim compensation on a change-in-law event arising from expenses incurred on installing bird flight diverters at its 151.2 MW wind projects located in the Great Indian Bustard habitat.

In December last year, Apraava secured ₹8.01 billion (~₹92 million) from impact investor British International Investment and Standard Chartered to expand its advanced metering infrastructure footprint.