China's SGCC gets initial approval for new UHV line -exec

State Grid Corp of China won preliminary government approval for its plan to put up a second alternating current ultra-high voltage power line.The approval allows the country's dominant power grid operator to move a step closer toward establishing a network of UHV power lines that would connect energy-rich inland regions and coastal demand centres.

China has three UHV power lines in operation, with two run by the SGCC and one by smaller China Southern Power Grid Co Ltd .

SGCC will build a backbone network of "three horizontal and three vertical UHV power lines" in the coming five years and will expand it to "six horizontal and five vertical UHV lines" by 2020, General Manager Liu Zhenya told a conference in Beijing.

The full sotry is available at Reuters.