GE T&D wins grid upgradation order from WBSETCL

GE T&D India Limited has received a grid upgradation order from West Bengal State Electricity Transmission Company (WBSETCL) that will address the growing energy demand of the state and provide the utility with latest state-of-the-art transmission infrastructure.

The order is worth Rs. 90 crores that GE won through a competitive bidding process. It includes construction of three new 132/33 kilovolt (kV) substations using GE’s advanced Gas Insulated Switchgear (GIS) technology in Ramnagar, Manbazaar and Birlapur. It also includes an extension of three existing substations at Hurand, Sirakole and Indus by adding two bays each.

GE’s GIS technology is one of the most advanced substation technologies in the world that reduces the land requirement to build a substation by up to 70 per cent compared with Air Insulated Substations (AIS).

This order will bring several benefits to West Bengal’s grid, including smarter networks, condition-based maintenance and greater load control to prevent outages.

With over 11 gigawatts (GW) of generation capacity, West Bengal is working towards improving the availability, reliability and quality of power supply, whilst minimizing transmission and distribution losses. The projects aim at contributing to the state government’s ambition to provide 24X7 supply to all electricity consumers and provide electricity access to all unconnected households of the state.

GE T&D India has a strong footprint in West Bengal and with the latest contract awarded, the company executes projects worth over Rs. 250 crore to upgrade the state’s grid infrastructure. It has been fully committed to modernise the state’s power infrastructure and has already completed projects worth approximately Rs. 750 crores over the last few years in partnership with the state’s transmission and distribution utilities like WBSETCL, Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC), and Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation.

On Wednesday, the stock of GE T&D made intra-day high and low of Rs. 156.55 and Rs. 147.20 respectively. Later it got closed at Rs. 149.