AREVA T&D India wins 1300 MINR eBOP contract for GMR Group’s Warora Thermal Power Plant
07/19/2010
Transmission and Distribution: AREVA T&D India wins 1300 MINR eBOP contract for GMR Group’s Warora Thermal Power Plant
AREVA T&D India has won a prestigious eBOP (electrical Balance of Plant[1]) contract for Warora Thermal Power Plant being set by GMR Group in Maharashtra.
This major contract, worth approximately 1300 MINR, is for the supply and installation of electrical Balance of Plant solutions for 2x300 MW thermal power plants in Warora Taluka, District Chandrapur, Maharashtra. The power project is coming up in two phases of 300-mw each in Warora.
Under the contract, AREVA T&D India will manufacture and install a 400/220 kV
Air-insulated Substation (AIS), as well as power and distribution transformers and switchgear equipments.
The Warora Independent Power Plant is scheduled for commissioning in September 2011.
Mr. Rathin Basu, Country President & Managing Director, AREVA T&D India said: “With leading Private and Public Utilities increasingly preferring cost effective, turnkey eBOP solutions for building and maintaining reliable power system installations, AREVA T&D India has established leadership across all Industry domains in this fast emerging segment”. The GMR Warora project contract is the fourth such eBoP contract for AREVA T&D India in the last 2 years.
[1] Electrical Balance of Plant: the internal power system or network within a power or industrial facility that transforms controls, protects and distributes electricity where it is required.
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AREVA T&D India is the industry leader, with a complete range of T&D Products, Systems, Services and Automation solutions. Around 70% of load flow in India is managed by AREVA T&D's Automation solutions. The company has been a trend- setter in the field of High-Voltage Switchgear; first to build the 765 kV Sub-station in India with NTPC at SIPAT, Chhattisgarh and has recently launched India’s first fully localized 765 kV Transformer. AREVA T&D India Ltd. currently has 13 manufacturing units and 22 sales offices and employs around 5000 people.
