GE Energy teams up with L&T for power plant automation equipment

16 May 2008

Mumbai: Engineering and construction major Larsen and Toubro (L&T) has entered into a strategic alliance with GE Energy to tap the Indian power generation market.

"L&T was looking to provide reliable control systems offering for the rapidly developing power generation sector in order to complete its electrical and automation suite," R N Mukhija, president operations and member of the board of L&T, said.

Atlanta, US-based GE Energy is a leader in power plant automation solutions and these ''were the key areas we were looking for in order to complete our electrical and automation suite,'' Mukhija said in a statutory filing with the Bombay Stock Exchange.

"This agreement with GE for the OC4000 series DCS, fulfills this need and is an important step in serving the power plant automation space," Mukhija added.

Under the agreement signed between the two companies, GE Energy will provide its power plant control systems to L&T which, in turn, will tap the Indian market.

The deal will help GE Energy showcase its power plant automation products as ''L&T has a strong presence in the Indian market,'' said GE Energy's Jayaraman Kishore.