To cater to the anticipated
growth in demand for power
transformers, several domestic
players have embarked on capacity
expansion plans. PME Power
Solutions and Prime Electric are two
prominent projects in this reckoning,
according to information sourced
from ProjectsToday.
PME Power Solutions (India) is
investing
229 crore in a power
transformer unit at Moradabad in
Uttar Pradesh. The unit, scheduled to
commission by February 2014, will
produce transformers with an annual
capacity of 315 MVA.
Prime Electric is in midst of setting
up a large export-oriented unit in
Nayadupet special economic zone,
Nellore district, Andhra Pradesh. The
greenfield unit is designed to produce
power transformers of up to 1,000
MVA/500kV rating with an annual
capacity of 10,000 MVA. The unit is
expected to partly commission in the
coming months.
Voltamp Transformers is also
planning to set up a new unit at
Haripura in Gujarat for the
manufacture of distribution
transformers. In Gujarat itself, two
more units are coming up, including
that of Chinese company TEBA
(Tebian Electric Apparatus Stock
Company). TEBA will make
power transformers with an
investment outlay of
250 crore.
Posco-Poggen Amp Electrical Steel
Pvt Ltd is also understood to be
setting up a transformer unit in the
western state.