Alstom India bags Rs 1,070 cr order for Neyveli thermal power project

Alstom India Ltd today informed BSE that Alstom has been awarded a contract worth close to €125 million (around Rs 1,070 crore) by BHEL for the 2X500 MW Neyveli New Thermal Power Project (NNTPP) located at Neyveli in the state of Tamil Nadu in India.

Under the scope of the contract, Alstom will co-operate with BHEL in conceptualising, designing, engineering and supplying two tower boilers and the complete lignite milling and firing equipment, and critical components.

Out of the entire aforesaid contract, Alstom India Limited's scope of work would be €65 million (Rs 556 crore).

In a press release Andreas Lusch, SVP of Alstom's Steam business commented that the project will showcase the combustion technologies of Alstom with difficult fuels such as lignite, which the company believe has an important part to paly in the Indian enegery landscape.

The 1,000 MW greenfield project being developed by Neyveli Lignite Corporation, with the first lignite-fired 2X500 MW power plant in the country.