Larsen and Toubro gets $7.76B gas-based plant project

PPN Power Generating Company awarded Larsen and Toubreo with a INR350bn or $7.76 billion for the construction of a 1,080MW gas-based power plant in Tamil Nadu, India.

The three units of 360MW each will be set up as an expansion project in the same location where PPN is presently operating a 330.5MW combined-cycle power plant.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries of Japan will provide the advanced class gas turbines and high efficiency steam turbines to be installed in the plant.

L&T-Sargent and Lundy, a subsidiary of L&T, will be responsible for integration and detailed engineering of the plant, using the propriety technology of Sargent & Lundy.