Siemens has bagged an order worth 130 million euro (over Rs978 crore) to set up a high voltage direct current (HVDC) link to connect power supply networks of India and Bangladesh.
“Siemens has received an order for an HVDC (high-voltage direct-current) back-to-back link to connect the power supply networks of India and Bangladesh,” Siemens said in a press release here on Thursday.
The order value is about Euro 130 mn and the power link is scheduled to come on line in the second half of 2018, it said. On a turnkey basis, Siemens will be responsible for engineering, installing and commissioning of the complete HVDC system.