Regulatory Filings • Dec 18, 2013
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December, 18th 2013
Alstom has been awarded a contract worth close to €125 million1 by BHEL to supply components and services for 2X500 MW Neyveli New Thermal Power Project (NNTPP) located at Neyveli in the state of Tamil Nadu in India.
Under the scope of the contract, Alstom will co-operate with BHEL in conceptualising, designing, engineering and supplying two tower boilers, the complete lignite milling and firing equipment, and critical components. It will be engineered and manufactured in Alstom's world class facilities in Stuttgart (Germany) as well as in Durgapur and Shahabad (India).
Andreas Lusch, Senior Vice President of Alstom's Steam business, said: "The Neyveli project will showcase the leading combustion technologies of Alstom with difficult fuels such as lignite, which we believe has an important part to play in the Indian energy landscape. Our extensive local manufacturing footprint and resource capability will be mobilised along with BHEL teams to make the project a success".
The 1000 MW greenfield Neyveli New Thermal Power Project (NNTPP), being developed by Neyveli Lignite Corporation Limited, will be the first lignite–fired 2X500 MW power plant in the country and major source of power to the southern states.
Alstom is a global leader in the world of power generation, power transmission and rail infrastructure and sets the benchmark for innovative and environmentally friendly technologies. Alstom builds the fastest train and the highest capacity automated metro in the world, provides turnkey integrated power plant solutions and associated services for a wide variety of energy sources, including hydro, nuclear, gas, coal and wind, and it offers a wide range of solutions for power transmission, with a focus on smart grids. The Group employs 93,000 people in around 100 countries. It had sales of over €20 billion and booked close to €24 billion in orders in 2012/13.
1 The contract was booked in Q3 of current fiscal year.
Alstom is a global leader in power generation, power transmission and rail infrastructure. Present in India since 1911, Alstom has strong capabilities in engineering, manufacturing, project management and supply of products and solutions for infrastructure. Alstom has four R&D centres in India: Transport in Bengaluru, Hydro Global Technology Centre in Vadodara and Grid R&D centres in Hosur & Padappai. It has two engineering centres for Power in Noida and Kolkata and eleven manufacturing units dedicated to: Power - Hydro in Vadodara, Boilers in Durgapur, auxiliary components and air-pre heaters in Shahabad, Steam turbines in Gujarat, Transport at Coimbatore and SriCity and Grid in Padappai, Pallavaram, Hosur, Vadodara and Naini.
Virginie Hourdin / Claire Biau - Tel. +33 1 41 49 21 36 / 39 95 [email protected] ; [email protected] Sapna Lalwani (Alstom Thermal Power) – Tel: +41 56 55 63342 [email protected] Aparna Srivastava (Alstom India) – Tel: +91 120 473 2535 / +91 956 064 6622 [email protected]
Delphine Brault, Anouch Mkhitarian – Tel. +33 1 41 49 26 42/25 13 [email protected], [email protected]
Website www.alstom.com
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