JPS Accepts Gap Type ACSR Order from Indian Power Company

J-Power Systems (JPS), a fifty-fifty joint venture company between Sumitomo Electric Industries and Hitachi Cable to manufacture ultra high voltage power cables, announced on Monday JPS accepted an order for GTACSR (gap type thermal resistant aluminium alloy conductor steel reinforced) from Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL) at 2.5 billion yen.

Total 2,200-kilometer conductor will be delivered to up-rate existent 400kV overhead power transmission lines. The construction is undertaken by Indian contractor, KEC International Limited and scheduled to complete in February 2012.

The up-rate targets to transmit electric power generated at a hydropower station under construction in Assam, India to Prunier City in Western Bengal, India. PGCIL solicited bids with financial support by World Bank.

On the land where the transmission line is existed, infrastructures are concentrated such as roads, railways, water and sewage systems, and power transmission lines. It is difficult to prepare new land to construct new power lines.

JPS’s unique GTACSR enables double up-rate of the power transmission line by only ACSR replacement on existing towers.