Siemens PTD bags 170 million euros order from Power Grid

New Delhi, Mar 14 (UNI) Siemens Ltd has announced that Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution (PTD) and consortium partner Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) have been awarded an order worth 235 million euros of which Siemens portion is about 170 million euros.

Of this, Siemens PTD India will be executing a portion of the contract valued at around 28 million euros (Rs 162.5 crore).

The order has been awarded by the Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd to construct 2500 MW HVDC Terminal stations for a 780-kilometer long high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) transmission route between the states of Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.

This project will be the fourth long-distance bulk HVDC transmission link in India and the second system that Siemens is building in the country. The first high-voltage direct-current transmission route was the 'East-South' long-distance link, which still currently ranks as the second longest HVDC transmission link in the world.

''This is the second HVDC project that we are implementing in India and are happy to support India's plans in the area of transmission and distribution. At the same time, since we have been present in India for more than 85 years, we know the local market and customer requirements. This unique combination gives us an unmatched advantage,'' Siemens Managing Director J Schubert said.

To enhance the power supply to the developing regions around New Delhi, Siemens will be providing a new HVDC transmission system for transporting the energy generated from the Barh power plant in Uttar Pradesh.

This bipolar 500-kV direct-current transmission system with a power rating of 2,500 MW will transport electrical energy with low loss from the pooling station at Ballia in Uttar Pradesh to Bhiwadi in Rajasthan, covering a distance of 780 km.

As leader of the consortium, Siemens has overall responsibility for the project, including the design of the complete HVDC transmission system. Siemens will deliver the bulk of the core components such as converter valves, converter transformers, smoothing reactors, protection and control systems, and the AC and DC filters.

The company is also undertaking transport functions, construction work and the installation and start-up of the HVDC transmission system.

The consortium partner BHEL is supplying converter transformers for the Bhiwadi converter station and components of the AC switchgear for both converter stations.

In 2006, the PowerGrid Corporation of India commissioned Siemens to upgrade the power rating of this HVDC transmission system from 2,000 MW to 2,500 MW.

UNI