L&T successfully commissions GMR's gas based power plant at AP

14 Dec 2011 Evaluate

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has successfully commissioned a 384 MW unit of GMR's gas based power plant at Vemagiri, near Rajahmundry in Andhra Pradesh (AP). Demonstrating its integrated execution capabilities, L&T completed the project in a record time of 24 months. The steam turbine for this Unit was synchronized on December 04, 2011 and the gas turbine on August 27, 2011.

In September 2006, the company had successfully commissioned the first unit of a similar capacity at the same location. Further, work for third unit of similar capacity, in which a gas turbine is expected to be synchronized soon, is in advanced stages. The complete unit is scheduled to be commissioned in the next few months. On completion of all three units, the national grid will benefit from a total capacity of 1,200 MW gas based power plant at a single location.

This project has been executed by the Gas Based Power Projects - Strategic Business Unit of L&T Power, based in Baroda. L&T's scope included design, detailed engineering, supply, installation and commissioning of the complete power plant on a turnkey basis. The plant incorporates state-of-art advance class gas turbines from General aectric and high efficiency Steam turbines from Alstom.

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