Hitachi Energy and Adani Energy Solutions (AESL) have successfully commissioned one of the world’s largest high-voltage direct current (HVDC) city center infeed in Mumbai, increasing power supply coming from outside the city by 50 percent. Injecting up to 1,000 megawatts (MW) of reliable, secure, and clean power directly into one of the world’s most densely populated megacities, the new HVDC link delivers a step-change in Mumbai’s energy resilience. The Kudus-Aarey connection significantly strengthens the city’s transmission infrastructure, supporting the daily needs of more than 20 million people.

The project is supplied through the Kudus grid connection with power imported from outside the city, including renewable energy from generation regions of Maharashtra and renewablerich nodes across India’s national grid. With its compact footprint, ability to transmit power through underground cables in constrained corridors, and inherent advantages in managing power congestion, pollution, acoustical and electrical noise, power quality, and control, the in-city HVDC application provides a scalable model for other Indian cities and global megacities facing similar multiplying power demand as well as land permitting and grid integration challenges.

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