Male, Maldives (CU)_ According to Indian media reports, the India and the Maldives governments intend to construct an interconnection for the transmission of sustainable energy between the two nations. RK Singh, India’s Minister of Power and New and Renewable Energy, and Aminath Shauna, Maldives’ Minister of Environment, Climate Change, and Technology, met in New Delhi to discuss the renewable energy transfer project proposal.
Singh also lauded the Maldives’ initiatives to become carbon neutral by 2030. The two ministers also suggested memoranda of understanding (MoUs) for energy cooperation and transmission connectivity as part of the One Sun, One World, One Grid (OSOWOG) program during their meeting.
A memorandum of understanding on transmission interconnection is now being drafted, under which an Indian technical team will pay a visit to the Maldives to assess the project’s technical viability. In the next stage, authorities from both nations will develop a detailed project report (DPR) that will include an underwater cable route survey and network extension in Male. The Indian government said last month that it intends to build 10 nuclear power facilities in fleet mode during the next three years.
The nuclear power stations will be constructed over a five-year period beginning with the first pour of concrete (FPC). The FPC is slated to take place in 2023 at the 700MW Kaiga atomic power plant in the Indian state of Karnataka. It will mark the commencement of nuclear power reactor construction from the pre-project stage, which includes excavation works on the nuclear facility site.
India presently operates 22 nuclear reactors with a combined capacity of more than 6.7GW. The government authorized the Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) In 2017 to construct 10 units of indigenously built pressurized heavy water reactors (PHWRs) each with a capacity of 700MW.
