Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL), through one of its empowered committees, has approved investment of over Rs.900 crore for procuring transformers and reactors.
In a brief stock exchange filing, PGCIL said that its “Committee of Directors on Investment on Projects,” in its meeting held on January 20, 2026, approved a total investment of Rs.913.99 crore on procurement of cold spare transformers and reactors.
The overall procurement is divided into three separate proposals that have already been approved by earlier meetings of regional power committees.
Accordingly, one proposal relates to the western region (WR) grid and is worth Rs.401.88 crore. The remaining two proposals relate to the northeastern and southern regions, and are valued at Rs.166.33 crore and Rs.345.78 crore, respectively.
The procurement is scheduled to be completed in 30 months, which is by July 20, 2028.
According to information available with tndindia.com from other official sources, the procurement of these spare transformers and reactors is in line with recommendations made by Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) in 2018.
CERC, in March 2018, had set up a committee consisting of representatives from CERC, National Load Dispath Centre (NLDC), Central Electricity Authority (CEA) and PGCIL to assess the requirement of regional spares, such as bus reactors, line reactors, interconnecting transformers, etc, to minimize downtime in case of any failure or outage.
The procurement transformers and reactors discussed in this story will be kept as spare for the three regional grids – western, northeastern and southern.
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