India, Singapore eye 2,000 MW power corridor

New Delhi: India and Singapore are exploring options for a proposed 2,000 MW cross-border power interconnection, Minister of State for power and renewable energy Shripad Yesso Naik said on Thursday.

One of the options under consideration is a land-based transmission corridor of around 3,000 km connecting Imphal in India to Singapore through Myanmar, Thailand and Malaysia, Naik said while addressing the East Asia Summit energy ministers' meeting in Manila.

The proposed interconnection has the potential to facilitate reliable cross-border electricity trade, support clean energy integration and strengthen regional energy security, he said. Naik said India was ready to share its experience in large-scale renewable energy deployment, grid integration, transmission planning, energy storage, green hydrogen and clean energy technologies with the participating easy Asian countries.


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He called for greater institutional linkages between the ASEAN Centre for Energy and Indian institutions, including NTPC, Power Grid Corporation, Central Electricity Authority, among others. There are opportunities for cooperation on strategic petroleum reserves, electricity system resilience, LNG and gas supply security, renewable energy forecasting, battery energy storage, green hydrogen and other emerging energy technologies in the region, he said.