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Alstom to implement Kochi metro power supply

Alstom has been awarded a contract worth US$9.7 million from Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) to provide receiving and auxiliary main substations for the Kochi metro. The contract includes high voltage cabling from the state grid for the new 25 kilometre long metro line. Under this new contract, Alstom is responsible for the supply, installation, testing and commissioning of 110kV cabling incoming from the grid, including civil works, intake power substations and their associated power transformers a
April 2, 2015 Read time: 1 min
Alstom has been awarded a contract worth US$9.7 million from Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) to provide receiving and auxiliary main substations for the Kochi metro. The contract includes high voltage cabling from the state grid for the new 25 kilometre long metro line.

Under this new contract, Alstom is responsible for the supply, installation, testing and commissioning of 110kV cabling incoming from the grid, including civil works, intake power substations and their associated power transformers and auxiliary transformers.

"With this new contract which is by the way the first metro receiving sub-station in India, we are supplying most of the Kochi metro line. It reaffirms the trust that the customer has in our products, technology and capability to provide a complete metro system” said Bharat Salhotra, managing director, Alstom Transport India.

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