Another major US nuclear order for MHI

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 80 KB
• Volume: 2003
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1359-6128
• DOI: 10.1016/s1359-6128(03)00309-4

✦ Synopsis

Alstom

is supplying Jaiprakash Power Ventures Ltd India with 50 million worth of equipment for a new 4 x 100 MW Vishnuprayag hydro power plant being built on the Alaknanda river in Uttaranchal state.

The build-own-operate plant is one of the few large independent power plants in the hydro sector in India. Civil works are well advanced, and the plant should be completed by December 2006.

Alstom will supply and supervise the erection of the turbines, governing systems, spherical valves, butterfly valves, generators, static excitation system, bus ducts and computerized power plant control and monitoring systems. The company's manufacturing facilities in Grenoble and Belfort, France, and in India will supply the equipment and components.