Areva Transmission & Distribution reports award of first turnkey order in India

Areva Transmission & Distribution (T&D) India has bagged its first turnkey AIS sub station contract from Essar Steel Ltd. The project is estimated at Rs63 crore.

This 3.9-million tonne per annum expansion project at Hazira entails the complete design, supply, erection, testing and commissioning of 220 kV switchyard on a turnkey basis and also the supply of 160 MVA, 220 kV, 90 MVA, and 220 kV power transformers.

Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission Co. Ltd. (MSETCL) has also placed its first complete turnkey solutions order for a gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) to improve the power quality and reliability for the Infotech city of Pune. The order is valued is at nearly Rs34 crore.

The scope includes turnkey execution of the 132 / 22 / 11 kV Rasthapeth substation involving design, supply, civil work, erection, testing and commissioning of multiple bays of 132 kV GIS, 50 MVA and 25 MVA transformers, control relay panels and numerical bay control system.

Areva offers state-of-the-art GIS technology along with spring operating mechanism and aluminium enclosure. The product offering also provides an undoubted advantage of compactness, modularity and reliability for the customers.

"Areva is a market leader in the evolving GIS market segment in India and has the highest number of references, and we also have a distinction of supplying in hydro Power plants, transmission substations, and to IPP''s in India", said Rathin Basu, country president.