L&T Construction wins significant orders in Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and India

Business Tuesday 25/July/2023 17:12 PM
By: Times News Service
L&T Construction wins significant orders in Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and India

Dubai: The Power Transmission & Distribution Business of Larsen & Toubro has secured new orders in Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and India.

The Business has received an order for the construction of a ±525kV High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) transmission segment. This link is part of a large capacity; Voltage Source Converter (VSC) based HVDC system that connects Neom Industrial City and Yanbu City in western Saudi Arabia.

In India, the Business has won an order to implement SCADA/DMS and related IT infrastructure for urban area power distribution systems in central Gujarat. The scope also involves Information Storage & Retrieval, Front End Processing, Outage Management, Network Management, Dispatcher Training Simulation, Local Data Monitoring etc. with the requisite security systems.

Another order has been secured to build a 400kV Double Circuit Transmission Line in Jharkhand. The 133 KM line is associated with the evacuation of power from a generating station. In the Sarawak region of Malaysia, the Business has bagged an order, in a consortium, to establish a 275kV Substation. Once completed, the project will help improve power supply reliability in major load centres on the northwest coast of the island of Borneo.