ZURICH, Switzerland, May 7 (UPI) -- Swiss power and technology company ABB announced it has won $100 million in orders to supply power substations to five areas in India by 2011.
The substations will help increase India's power capacity and reliability, ABB said.
Areas where the substations will be built are Agra, Wardha, Bilaspur, Seoni and Palakkad.
"These substations for the national grid are an integral part of the country's plans to develop an ultrahigh-voltage transmission network, improving transmission efficiency and addressing growing demand for electricity," said Peter Leupp, head of ABB's Power Systems division.
India's PowerGrid Corp., which awarded the substation orders, has a goal of strengthening the national transmission grid and increasing inter-regional power transfer capacity to 37,000 megawatts by 2012.
