WCA January 2016

India

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Transforming power ALSTOM has delivered India’s first 800kV HVDC power transformer for the Champa-Kurukshetra UHVDC phase 1 link.

The 1,365km transmission line project will connect a power station, near Champa, to the demand centre in Kurukshetra, northern India. This is the first of nine power transformers needed for the project, built in Alstom’s transformer manufacturing and testing facility in India. The 13m-long, 5.3m-high and 5.1m-wide transformer weighs 310 tonnes. It has taken the unit over three months to cover a distance of over 2,000km to reach the project site at Champa. The second transformer, already dispatched, was expected to reach Champa by December 2015. Patrick Plas, senior vice president, grid power electronics and automation, Alstom Grid, said: “These massive transformers will substantially improve grid connectivity by seamlessly transferring power across five electrical regions of India. “Alstom has been a key player in HVDC for over 50 years and the company is currently executing two 800kV UHVDC bi-pole projects in India.”

Alstom has delivered over 40 HVDC projects worldwide, with current projects including DolWin3 in Germany and Rio ❍ First transformer for the Champa-Kurukshetra UHVDC phase 1 link

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