The Tata Power, on Wednesday finally uprated the existing transmission line between Kalwa (belonging to MSETCL) and Salsette (belonging to Tata Power). For long, Mid-day has been highlighting the lack of capacity that prevents power companies from getting more electricity to Mumbai, in case of increase in demand.

During summers, during peak hours demand surpasses 3,500 MW, although there is sufficient capacity to haul electricity from other states at this time. The entire stretch is 8 km wherein they have replaced the existing conductor with high capacity ones. Last year, there was load shedding in Mumbai for a couple of days as one of the Tata Power's plants experienced technical faults and the power distributors could not manage to procure more electricity into Mumbai due to constraint in the transmission line.