Hitachi ABB Power Grids India wins Rs 120-crore order

• The business has landed an order from state-run Chittaranjan Locomotive Works to supply transformers for products and guest locomotive engines.

Hitachi ABB Power Grids India has actually gotten a Rs120-crore transformer supply order from the Government of India's electric engine producer Chittaranjan Locomotive Works (CLW).

These transformers will certainly be utilized by CLW for 400 passenger and also freight locomotive engines.

Hitachi ABB Power Grids India will provide 6,531 kVA transformers for products locomotive engines and 7,775 kVA transformers for passenger. The transformers will feed power to important train features like grip, lighting, home heating as well as air flow, brakes, signaling and also communication.

" The order from CLW ... reinforces a two decades-long collaboration with the client as well as enables us to contribute further to India's objective to advance the economic climate in a responsible way," claimed N. Venu, Managing Director, India business of Hitachi ABB Power Grids-- a joint venture developed after Swiss-Swedish business ABB divested 80% of its Power Grids organisation to Japan's Hitachi.

" Railways are the backbone of environmentally-sustainable transport and also our pioneering modern technology will assist efficiently equilibrium power growth with the decrease of emissions."

Transformers are an essential link in the grip chain, driving train performance and also operator solutions: For railways, electric energy is provided as high voltage to the catenary feeder substations. The transformers reduce the voltage to a suitable degree before feeding it to the train catenary conductors used by engines.

Various railway electrification systems require various sort of transformers.

Headquartered in Switzerland, Hitachi ABB Power Grids offers utility, sector and also infrastructure clients across the worth chain, and arising areas like sustainable mobility, smart cities, power storage and data centers.