State-run BHEL on Friday said it has developed and tested India's first very high voltage transformer to be supplied to the central transmission utility Power Grid Corporation.
"BHEL has indigenously developed, manufactured and tested 1,200-kV Ultra High Voltage Alternating Current Transformer at its Bhopal facility," a company release said.
Auto Transformer successfully developed by BHEL shall be installed in India's first experimental 1200 kV National Test Station at Bina (MP) being set up by PowerGrid, it said.
BHEL manufactures transformers, shunt reactors, instrument transformers, capacitors, extra high voltage circuit breakers and medium voltage switchgear at its facilities located at Bhopal, Hyderabad and Jhansi.
It is the biggest transformer manufacturer in India with a capacity to manufacture 45,000 MVA of transformers/reactors per annum.
The company has set up a manufacturing plant of 12,000 MVA at Bhopal to manufacture large sized EHV, HVDC and UHVAC transformers and reactors.
ref:
http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/bheldevelopsindias1stultrahighvoltagetransformer_547175.html
Friday, May 27, 2011
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