In what is termed as India's largest and the world's second biggest transmission project, this `East-South' link will transport 2,000 mw of electricity, with a direct voltage of 500 KV, over a distance exceeding 1,400 km from Talcher in Orissa to the industrial areas around Bangalore in Karnataka. This East-South HVDC connection is scheduled to go online in 2003.Siemens India, in association with Siemens AG, Germany has recently won an order of Rs 820 crore to execute India's largest and the world's second largest power transmission project, using HVDC technology, financed from kFw Bank of Germany.

PowerGrid, with the approvals from the government and Central Electricity Authority, decided to build a 2000 mw HVDC bipole link between Talcher, in Orissa and Kolar in Karnataka covering a distance of approximately 1400 kms. u ``This order to build converter stations in India is the single largest contract our group has ever won,'' Uriel sharien president of Siemens' power transmission and distribution group, Siemens AG Germany said.