L&T commissions 384 MW power project

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) on Wednesday said it 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 December 4 and the gas turbine on August 27.

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 will 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 L&T 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 Electric and high efficiency steam turbines from Alstom.

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) is a USD 11.7 billion technology, engineering, construction, manufacturing and financial services conglomerate, with global operations.