L&T Bags NTPC Order For Thermal Power Plant In Madhya Pradesh

L&T will set up flue gas desulphurisation system at NTPC’s Vindhyachal Super Thermal Power Station in Madhya Pradesh.

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26 Aug 2019, 11:57 AM IST

An excavation site, managed by Larsen & Toubro and Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Co. (L&T-STEC), for the construction of the Mumbai Metro. (Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg)

Larsen & Toubro Ltd. on Monday said its power business has bagged a "significant" order from NTPC Ltd. to set up flue gas desulphurisation system at Vindhyachal Super Thermal Power Station in Madhya Pradesh.

L&T has received an engineering, procurement and construction order to set up flue-gas desulphurisation system at Vindhyachal Super Thermal Power Station at stage-I & II (6x210 mega watt (MW) & 2x500 MW, the company said in a BSE filing. This is in continuation to the order received for Stage III 0 IV (2x500 MW 0 2x500 MW) in September last year, it added.

L&T did not provide value of the contracts but said that they fall under "significant" category which ranges between Rs 1,000 crore and Rs 2,500 crore as per its classification of contracts.

L&T said installation of FGD systems in existing and upcoming thermal power plants has been made mandatory by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India, to curtail S02 emissions.