DEVELOPING AN INTERCONTINENTAL ELECTRICITY GRID BETWEEN INDIA AND AFRICA
India’s Moonshot
On 2nd October 2018, Prime Minister Modi announced a grand vision of creating the "one world, one sun, one grid" network. This mega project, once completed, will create a massive single grid network that will power every continent through day and night by transferring the power of the afternoon sun almost instantaneously to any part of the world. Sterlite Power echoed this vision with an idea championing the development of the IEG (Intercontinental Electricity Grid) that proposed a connector between Asia and Africa using a submarine HVDC network. The proposed connector offers a practical, simple yet challenging & futuristic solution to bring this vision to life.