CG bags two orders to set up power substations overseas

Avantha Group firm Crompton Greaves (CG) on Monday said that it has bagged orders to set up two power substations overseas.

"CG has bagged two important orders, one for 8 bays of 138kV, 60Hz, AIS Switchyard in the Philippines for MINERGY Coal Corporation and the other for 30 MVA, 132kV mobile substations for Wellington Turbines, a Venezuelan enterprise," the company said in a BSE filing.

The company secured the orders through competitive international bidding process.

The scope of work for both projects includes design, manufacture, supply, construction and installation and commissioning of the substations.

The project in Philippines will be executed by September 2015. It will facilitate power transmission to the Philippines grid through 3 X 55MW coal fired thermal power projects, being installed by MINERGY Coal Corporation.

A switching substation or switchyard is used mainly for connections and interconnections and are essential for transmission, distribution, collection and controlling the flow of electricity.

It delivers power generated at the power plant to the electrical grid. Crompton Greaves is among the few companies to offer solutions in 60Hz.

The mobile substations' project for Venezuela will facilitate electricity transmission for the floating type oil fired power plant being set up by Wellington Turbines, 100km from Caracas port.

With CG's short-track delivery of mobile units, these mobile substations will assist in power supply during emergency or planned outages, moving loads and integration of distributed or renewable generation, it said.

Crompton Greaves is a global pioneering leader in the management and application of electrical energy, with more than 15,000 employees across its operations in around 85 countries.