Transco gets award for lowest transmission losses in Southern Region

TG-Transco Director G. Sampath Kumar showing the award to Special Chief Secretary (Energy) Navin Mittal - with CMD D. Krishna Bhaskar on his right, in Hyderabad, on Monday.

The Transmission Corporation of Telangana Limited (TG-Transco) has received an award for achieving the lowest transmission losses in the Southern Region for FY 2025–26 at the Power Line TransTech India Utility Awards 2026 presented in New Delhi.

According to officials, the TG-Transco recorded transmission losses of 2.20% in FY 2025–26, compared with 2.19% in FY 2024–25 and 2.30% in FY 2023–24. The transmission utility has received the award for the second consecutive year.

Director (Grid and Transmission Management) G. Sampath Kumar received the award on October 14 at the hands of Alok Batra, CEO of Power Line, and founding CEO of POSOCO, now known as Grid-India, S. K. Soonee.

Telangana met a record peak demand of 20,018 megawatt on October 16 with the TG-Transco more than doubling its network capacity since its formation in 2014 and is continuously expanding and strengthening the system to meet growing demand.

The works include establishing new substations and transmission lines, augmentation of existing capacity, bus bifurcation and measures to improve voltage and reactive power management in coordination with the Discoms.