Alstom opens electrical shop in facility

Alstom Projects India Limited, part of the Alstom group, has opened an electrical shop at its Vadodara-based hydro equipment manufacturing facility.

The new electrical shop would further strengthen Alstom's hydro electric equipment manufacturing capability in India.

Inaugurating the shop, Philippe Joubert, president, Alstom Power, said, "the Vadodara facility would cater to nearly 70 per cent of the global demand for equipment in the hydro power sector while around 30 per cent of the capacity would be used for the domestic projects."

The company has undertaken the 2,000-Mw Subansiri project in Arunachal Pradesh. The project will have eight units each consisting of 250 Mw capacity.

The Vadodara plant is the third largest hydro equipment manufacturing facility of the group. Two other similar facilities are located in Brazil and China.

The company is now focusing on gas-based power projects. "We have executed a couple of gas-based power projects but with the possible increased availability of natural gas from the KG Basin, more such projects are expected to come up on the west coast, " Frederic Lalanne, vice-chairman and managing director of Alstom Projects, said, adding that the company would bid for more gas-based power projects and bring in heavy duty gas turbines from its Switzerland-based gas turbine manufacturing facility.