Tala starts export to India
Tala, August 14: The Tala hydroelectric project that begun commercial production on July 31 has exported 22 million units of electricity to India as of 10 August, earning a revenue of over 36m ngultrums.
The plant is connected to eastern region grid of West Bengal in Siliguri through the Malbase substation in Pasakha, 20 km away from the plant.
Earlier, Bhutanese officials even did not know how far the power from Tala gone to. It has reached as far as New Delhi after a substation in the outskirts of Mandila, which is about 1,500 km away from the Siliguri dispatch center.
Bhutan expects to complete the construction of the 1020 MW plant by July 2007. Bhutan News Service