New Delhi, November 3: GE Vernova T&D India has received a formal Letter of Award (LoA) dated November 3, 2026, from Power Grid Corporation of India for the design and establishment of a 6,000 MW, ±800 kV high-voltage direct current (HVDC) terminal station to evacuate renewable power from Barmer II in Rajasthan to South Kalamb in Maharashtra, CNBC-TV18 reported, citing the company's regulatory filing.

Source: CNBC-TV18, via TradingView (Nov 4, 2026)

6,000 MWcapacity of the Barmer II–South Kalamb HVDC link
±800 kVvoltage of the HVDC system
2 × 3,000 MWtwo LCC converter terminal stations, one at each end
May 2025when the National Committee on Transmission approved the 6 GW project

The scope covers two 3,000 MW line-commutated converter (LCC) terminal stations — one at Barmer II and one at South Kalamb — with GE Vernova T&D India handling design, supply and execution. The formal award converts the company's lowest-bidder (L1) status, first disclosed in a September 7 filing, into an official order, Power Peak Digest reported. The filing states no contract value and says execution will run over multiple years.

Source: Power Peak Digest (Nov 4, 2026)

The corridor is designed to move solar and renewable electricity out of Rajasthan, one of India's biggest generation hubs, to high-demand regions — a bottleneck the grid operator has been racing to clear as renewable capacity grows faster than the transmission network. Power Grid itself won the wider Barmer HVDC scheme under tariff-based competitive bidding, with annual transmission charges of Rs 3,244.33 crore for the full system, according to its September exchange filing reported by Solar Quarter.

GE Vernova T&D India's shares fell up to 3 per cent on Wednesday, November 4, in line with a broader sell-off after the US midterm results, even as the award was announced, CNBC-TV18 reported.