The company will establish two floating solar plants in India having cumulative capacity of over 150 MWac, in addition to a ground-mounted solar PV of 120 MWac capacity.
May 10, 2024
The power transmission and distribution business of Larsen and Toubro has recently won ‘major’ orders in India and overseas.
As per the company’s classification, orders in the range of INR 5,000 crore to INR 10,000 crore were classified as ‘major’. The company said in a stock exchange filing that the orders included establishing two floating solar plants in India having capacity of over 150 MWac, in addition to a ground-mounted solar PV of 120 MWac capacity.
It said floating solar projects involved mounting solar modules on structures that floated in a water body, such as a reservoir, quarry, or lake. In comparison to ground-mounted solar plants, the floating ones did not require land acquisition and usually involved less civil work. There were other site-specific merits too, besides reduction of water evaporation, it added.
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L&T’s power transmission and distribution business also received orders to establish 765 kV transmission lines and a gas-insulated substation to integrate solar energy zones in Rajasthan and Karnataka. These links will enable the evacuation of renewable energy to the load centres in different parts of the country.
The business also secured another order from Kuwait to build a 400 kV gas-insulated substation, which will be instrumental in powering the residential clusters being developed as part of the South Sabah Al-Ahmad City project.
The power transmission and distribution business of L&T also received orders to build a 400 kV overhead transmission line and two 400 kV grid stations as part of Oman’s interconnection and grid strengthening project.
Oman is integrating multiple of its standalone electricity networks into a 400 kV national grid. In the UAE, the L&T business has secured orders to build two 132 kV substations with associated works.
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L&T’s whole-time director and senior executive vice-president (utilities), T Madhava Das, said solar power and related hybrid technologies witness rapid innovations that were not limited to cell technologies but also encompassed project formulation, application areas, design and engineering, and construction methods.
“We are proud to be at the forefront of implementing such technologically advanced projects of critical nature,” he said.
Prior to this, L&T had reported in March that its subsidiary L&T GeoStructure had secured multiple orders across the country in the range of INR 1,000 crore to INR 2,500 crore.
