Areva T&D Wins 4 major Substations orders from Power Grid

Areva T&D has recently won four orders worth approximately 350 crore to supply Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. (PGCIL), four extra high voltaga (765 KV) substations. AREVA will deliver these projects in Lucknow and Ballia (in Utter Pradesh) and Bina and Satna (in Madhya Pradesh), in partnership with Larsen and Toubro Ltd. AREVA will manufacture a portion of the 785 kV equipment for these substations at its three recently inaugurated manufacturing sites in India dedicated to Extra High Voltage Transmission Products.

The group had already deployed India's first substation of this kind for the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) at Sipat, in operation since 2007. Thanks to these recent major orders, AREVA T&D India has now won six of twelve 765 kV substation projects so far awarded in India. These substation projects demonstrate AREVA's proven expertise and leading position in the 765 kV domain In India.