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L&T Commissions 384 MW power project for GMR in record time

Source: Capital Market, Wednesday, December 14th, 12:28 PM

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has successfully commissioned a 384 MW unit of GMR's gas based power plant at Vemagiri, near Rajahmundry in Andhra Pradesh. Demonstrating its integrated execution capabilities, L&T completed the project in a record time of 24 months. The steam turbine for this unit Was synchronized on 04 December 2011 and the gas turbine on 27 August 2011.

In September 2006 L&T had successfully commissioned the first unit of a similar capacity at the same location. Work is also in its advanced stage for the third unit of similar capacity in which a gas turbine is expected to be synchronized soon. The complete unit is scheduled to be commissioned in the next few months. On completion of all three units, the national grid wilt benefit from a total capacity of 1200 MW gas based power plant at a single location.

This project has been executed by the Gas Based Power Projects - Strategic Business Unit of LT Power, based in Baroda. L&T's scope included design, detailed engineering, supply, installation and commissioning of the complete power plant on a turnkey basis. The plant incorporates state-of-art advance class gas turbines from general aectric and high efficiency steam turbines from Alstom.

The company made this announcement on 14 December 2011.

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