Systems – engineering and management of transmission and special power supply projects
Alstom Grid’s Systems business unit is its second largest, specialising in engineering and project management for large turnkey transmission projects, and special power supplies for electro-intensive industries. The Systems business unit accounts for 34% of sector sales. Projects include the supply of a 765 kV extra high voltage substation for the Anpara power station in India and the completion of the Gulf’s largest HVDC converter station (3 x 600 MW) and the network management system that connects the Gulf Cooperation Council International Authority’s (GCCIA) six member states’ energy systems.
Alstom Grid’s Systems business unit’s solutions provide the safest, most secure and most efficient way of transmitting large quantities of electricity over very long distances, making Alstom Grid a world leader in HVDC solutions. HVDC is the only way of interconnecting two asynchronous alternating current networks.
The quality of these alternating-current grids has also now grown significantly because of the FACTS (flexible alternating-current transmission systems) technologies in which Alstom Grid is one of the global specialists.
Local Expertise
Alstom Grid Systems business unit in Australia carries out all electrical design and drafting activities in-house for all of its substation projects. The engineering team comprises approximately 80 persons covering all aspects of electrical design.