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Adani Power to start exporting electricity from India to Bangladesh

Adani Power Ltd. will commission a 1.6 gigawatt facility in Jharkhand state and a dedicated transmission line for the exports by Dec. 16, Adani said in a Twitter post late on Monday

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Adani’s project has been criticized due to the high costs of transporting the coal by sea from places like Australia and South Africa and then by train to the plant.

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Tycoon Gautam Adani plans to start exporting electricity from a coal-fired plant in eastern India to Bangladesh before the end of the year, helping to alleviate energy shortages in the South Asian nation.
 
Adani Power Ltd. will commission a 1.6 gigawatt facility in Jharkhand state and a dedicated transmission line for the exports by Dec. 16, Adani said in a Twitter post late on Monday after meeting Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in New Delhi. 

The project underscores India’s push to use infrastructure as part of its diplomatic outreach to neighbors. Adani -- Asia’s richest person controlling a business empire