December 03, 2008

Areva to set up substation at Hazira for Essar Steel

Areva T&D India Limited announced that it has received an order worth INR 630 million from Essar Steel Limited for designing, supplying and commissioning of switchyard and transformers of various ratings for Essar Steel's substation at Hazira in Gujarat.

Essar Steel’s expansion project at Hazira entails the complete Design, Supply, Erection, Testing & Commissioning of 220 kV Switchyard on Turnkey basis and also the supply of 160 MVA, 220 kV, 90 MVA, and 220 kV Power Transformers.

Mr Rathin Basu country president of Areva said "Areva T&D is a market leader in the evolving gas insulated systems market segment in India and has the highest number of references and we also have a distinction of supplying in hydropower plants, transmission sub-stations and to independent power producers in India.”

Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission Co Ltd has also placed its first Gas Insulated Switchgear complete turnkey solutions order on AREVA T&D India. This order is valued is at INR 339 million. This project endeavors to improve the power quality and reliability for the Infotech city of Pune. 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.