Alstom Grid announced it has been awarded three major high voltage direct current (HVDC) contracts valued at €800 million. The contracts related to projects in India, South Korea and Canada.
Half of the order value was booked in the first quarter of the current fiscal year, and the remainder will be booked in Q2, Alstom said.
In South Korea, Alstom has been awarded a HVDC Line Commutated Converter (LCC) project through its joint venture, KEPCO-Alstom Power Electronics Systems (KAPES).
The project includes the design and supply equipment for a 33 km ±500 kV HVDC link with a power capacity of 1.5 GW in the Seoul region. The system will transmit energy produced by the Dangjin power plant in the west of South Korea, to the densely populated Pyeongtaek area, which lies to the east of Dangjin.
In Canada, Alstom has secured a turnkey contract from Nalcor Energy for the design, supply and installation of a ±350 kV bi-pole HVDC LCC.
The link will stretch 1 100 km from the 824 MW Muskrat Falls hydropower project in Labrador to Soldiers Pond, Newfoundland.
Finally, Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL) has contracted Alstom for the second phase of its ±800 kV 3000 MW Ultra-High Voltage Direct Current (UHVDC) project, which will connect Champa to Kurukshetra. Alstom won the contract for the first phase of this project in 2012.
With the two contracts, Alstom lines will enable transfer of up to 6 000 MW of power from central India to the north of the country.
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