The opening up of the power industry with the concept of IPPs (Independent Power Producers) taking shape, a host of such private power producers were established about two decades ago, throwing up all at once the need for evacuation of the generated power through the established countrywide transmission grids, and facilitating the possibility of selling the power on a country wide basis to consumers near and far.

EMPOWERTRANS had been privileged to be chosen by Sterlite Energy Limited (of the Vedanta Group) for its first 4 x 600 MW IPP in Odisha, to construct the LILO link line for connection with the Central Transmission Utility agency- Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL), back in 2009. Satisfied with the execution capabilities and the excellent rapport built up with POWERGRID, this was followed up by two separate repeat orders in 2010 and 2013 from the same group for its BALCO Power plant, which had by then also gone into sale of power on a commercial basis, in addition to catering to its own in-house production facilities. Meanwhile, other IPPs in the region had also by then taken notice of EMPOWERTRANS’s expertise in building transmission lines for power evacuation and linking up the same with Central Transmission Utilities like POWERGRID, and the extensive co-ordination needed with these agencies to complete the process.

Thus, quite expectedly, in 2011, keeping up with the trend in boosting the quantum of evacuated power, EMPOWERTRANS was not only awarded the construction of the first QUAD Moose 400 KV, Double Circuit Transmission Line at Kamalanga, Odisha, for the GMR group, but also a similar power evacuation Line for the MONNET group at a nearby location, with both Transmission Lines ending up at the Power Grid substation at Angul. EMPOWERTRANS’s expertise in this specialised segment was also drawn upon by other smaller power producers like Vandana Vidyut and KVK Neelachal Power.

Side by side, EMPOWERTRANS also got involved into delivering power for the in-house production units of industrial customers like the HINDALCO Group, from their own captive power plants.