Siemens has bagged an order worth over Rs 978 crore to set up a high voltage direct current (HVDC) link to connect power supply networks of India and Bangladesh. The power link is scheduled to come on line in the second half of 2018. On a turnkey basis, Siemens will be responsible for engineering, installing and commissioning of the complete HVDC system. The customer is Power Grid Company of Bangladesh (PGCB).

Vestas is to supply 24 V110 2MW wind turbines to China Longyuan Power Group Corp for an unnamed wind farm in the Asian country. The deal includes a three-year active output management 4000 service contract and a Scada VestasOnline Business for data-driven monitoring and preventive maintenance. Delivery and commissioning of the turbines is expected in the last quarter of 2016.

Alstom T&D India, a part of the GE Group, has won two contracts worth Rs. 202 crore from Power Grid Corporation of India for execution of projects in Madhya Pradesh. Under the first contract worth Rs. 119.7 crore, Alstom T&D will set up a 400/220 kV AIS substation in Rewa, Madhya Pradesh. The contract also includes supply of three 500 MVA power transformers and one shunt reactor at 500 kV level. The substation will evacuate power from the 750 MW solar park coming up in Rewa. In the second contract, worth Rs. 82.8 crore, Alstom T&D India will install, test and commission 16 shunt reactors of 110 MVAR, 765 kV, 1-ph and two shunt reactors of 80 MVAR, 400 kV, 3-ph as part of Gadarwara Part (A) transmission system project in Madhya Pradesh. The project will evacuate power from NTPC’s 1,600 MW Gadarwara Supercritical Thermal Power Station.