ANDRITZ to rehabilitate Kopili hydropower plant in Assam

The project is expected to be finished by the third quarter of 2023.

ANDRITZ has received an order from Central Government-owned utility, North Eastern Electric Power Corporation Ltd. (NEEPCO Ltd.) for the complete rehabilitation of the electro-mechanical equipment of the 200 MW Kopili hydropower plant located on the Kopili River in Dima Hasao district of Assam, India. 

ANDRITZ’s scope of supply includes detailed design and engineering, manufacture, transportation to the project site, supervision of the assembly, erection, testing as well as commissioning of the entire electro-mechanical equipment to be installed in the powerhouse of the Kopili hydroelectric plant.  It also included the training of NEEPCO’s personnel in the design, engineering, operation, and maintenance of the plant. 

The rehabilitation works will be executed by the India hydro subsidiary of ANDRITZ with its state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in Mandideep (near Bhopal) and Prithla (near Faridabad).

This will be the second contract from NEEPCO to ANDRITZ. Previously, In 2011 ANDRITZ won the contract for the supply of the complete electro-mechanical equipment for the greenfield hydropower project Pare HEP (110 MW).

The award of this contract further strengthens ANDRITZ’s leading position in the Indian hydropower market.