India and Saudi Arabia sign agreement to connect their power grids through subsea cables

India and Saudi Arabia signed an agreement on Monday, September 11, to connect their power grids via subsea cables.

Furthermore, the agreement was signed by India’s Union minister for new and renewable energy, RK Singh, and his Saudi Arabian counterpart, minister of energy, Abdulaziz bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.

This comes as part of India’s exploration to join grids with the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia to the west, as well as Singapore to the east and later on with others, under the One Sun One World One Grid (OSOWOG) plan, aiming to form one global power grid, reducing the need of storing renewable energy.

However, the signed agreement focuses on other things as well. More specifically, the two countries aim to collaborate and invest in areas like renewable energy, energy efficiency, hydrogen, electricity, petroleum, natural gas, strategic petroleum reserves, and energy security.

To this day, there are 485 operational undersea cables in the world, with the longest one being the Viking link joining Britain and Denmark, which is 764 kilometers long.