Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd has won the fourth successive order placed by Tamil Nadu power utility Tangedco for supercritical power generation equipment.
Kalpataru Power Transmission Ltd, in a stock exchange filing, announced the receipt of new orders worth Rs.875 crore for construction of transmission lines. The Mumbai-headquartered company said that Rs.278 crore worth of orders related to India, while the remaining Rs.597 crore were for works in Afghanistan, Ivory Coast and Bangladesh. The domestic orders include one from a private power transmission utility.
ABB India has received an order for an automation and electricial system for a 2 milllion tpa greenfield plant in Odisha by Emami Cement, part of the Kolkata-based Emami Group. The solution implemented will minimize energy consumption and enhance the overall plant performance helping the plant support infrastructure growth in the region, a release from ABB said.
Hartek Power, the EPC arm of the Hartek Group, has won a major order from Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam Ltd for executing a 132kV gas-insulated substation at the 31-acre National Cancer Institute of the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences in Jhajjar, Haryana.
Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd has won its single-largest order for 765kV substations, the PSU engineering firm said in a release.
KEC International Ltd. (KEC), in a release, announced the winning of new orders of Rs. 1,931 crore, in diverse segments. These orders span the company’s power T&D, cables, railways and solar EPC business.
The power T&D business has secured orders of Rs. 1,756 crore across India, SAARC, Middle East, Africa and the Americas, KEC said.
Kalpataru Power Transmission Ltd, in a stock exchange filing, announced the winning of overseas power transmission orders valued at Rs.913 crore.
Atria Brindavan Power Pvt Ltd has placed a 40-MW firm and unconditional order on Vestas for the first phase of its wind power project in Karnataka. For the Basavane Bagewadi wind farm in Bijapur district, Vestas would be supplying and installing 18 V110-2.2 MW turbines. The order also includes 15-year full-scope Active Output Management 5000 (AOM5000) service agreement as well as a VestasOnline® Business SCADA solution for data-driven monitoring and preventive maintenance.
Turbine delivery and commissioning is expected for the first quarter of 2018.
With more than 37 GW installed in 45 countries on six continents since its debut, Vestas’ 2-mw platform is the most widely installed platform in the industry. Vestas has installed more than 3 GW of turbines in India, a release from Vestas said.
GE Power India Ltd (formerly Alstom India Ltd) has reported the winning of an order worth Rs.327.50 crore from Doosan Power Systems India Pvt Ltd for the supply of four units of 660-mw electrostatic precipitators (ESP). These ESPs will be deployed at the 2×660-mw Obra and the 2×660-mw Jawaharpur supercritical power projects, being developed by state power generation utility Uttar Pradesh Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd. The precipitators will be equipped with latest GE controllers, a stock exchange filing of GE Power India said. Doosan Power Systems India Pvt Ltd (DPSI) is the EPC contractor for both the Obra and Jawaharpur projects. While Obra is a brownfield expansion, Jawaharpur (implemented by a wholly-owned subsidiary of UPRVUNL) is a greenfield project.
The technology would bring down the emission of particulate matters to 18mg/Nm3 in Obra C and to 17mg/Nm3 in Jawaharpur. These levels are around 40 per cent lower than the requirement of 30mg/Nm3 as defined in the new environmental norms released by Union ministry of environment & forests in December 2015.
GE Power is also supplying supercritical steam turbines for the same projects, which are being executed by DPSI on EPC basis.
GE, in a release, has announced that it has been selected by the Shapoorji Pallonji Group (SP Group) to supply the power generation equipment for the upcoming 220-mw combined cycle power plant in the Bhola district of Bangladesh. This will be GE’s second power plant in Bhola of the same capacity with the first being commissioned in 2015.