Alstom Grid and National Grid SA of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) under which the two companies will cooperate in developing and advancing electricity infrastructure in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on a long-term basis. This MOU was signed on the 21st of April
by Mr. Mohammad Al-Rafaa, Engineering Vice President of National Grid SA and Mr. Michel Augonnet, Senior Vice President Commercial Solutions of Alstom Grid during a ceremony organised at the Alstom Grid Headquarters in Paris.
According to the MOU, the two parties will cooperate in fields of standards and specifications, engineering and design, maintenance and operation, technical exchange forums and technology roadmap. This cooperation between Alstom and National Grid SA includes main equipment such as HV switchgear, power transformers, substation automation solutions including protection and measurement IEDs, digital substation, smart grid and supergrid applications, network management as well as maintenance.
Additionally, this MOU includes a range of training courses conducted by experts from the Alstom Technical Institute, providing National Grid SA engineers with the optimum level of technical information adapted to their day-to-day requirements.
About Alstom
Alstom is a global leader in the world of power generation, power transmission and rail infrastructure and sets the benchmark for innovative and environmentally friendly technologies. Alstom builds the fastest train and the highest capacity automated metro in the world, provides turnkey integrated power plant solutions and associated services for a wide variety of energy sources, including hydro, nuclear, gas, coal and wind, and it offers a wide range of solutions for power transmission, with a focus on smart grids. The Group employs 93,000 people in around 100 countries. It had sales of over €20 billion and booked €21.5 billion in orders in 2013/14.
Alstom Grid has one clear vision: to develop innovative solutions for a flexible, reliable, affordable and sustainable electrical grid, everywhere. We design, manufacture, install and service the power transmission and distribution products and systems that empower the planet's low carbon economy... for now and for the future.
Alstom Grid has over 130 years' experience and ranks among the top three in the electrical transmission sector with an annual sales turnover of €3.8 billion. Alstom Grid's 17,000 employees are spread across 87 manufacturing and engineering sites worldwide and have one common mission: be our customers' trusted partner, from the source to the city.
We are energising a smarter world... with Alstom.
National Grid Saudi Arabia
In the beginning of 2012, the National Grid SA, a limited liability company wholly owned by the Saudi Electricity Company was established and launched. Its tasks and responsibilities include electricity transmission in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the operation, control, and maintenance of the electrical grid. During that year, two more business lines were introduced: Engineering and Projects Management, and Supply Chain business lines.
POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORK
The lengths of electrical transmission networks grew by (4.7%) (54,318) km-circular by launching a number of new projects, and also strengthened enhanced projects, aiming for improvement and development of power transmission networks and increasing their operational efficiency. A total (38) new substations and (107) transformers were added. Eleven transformers were installed in current transmission substations and (8) were replaced, amounting to a total capacity of (15,565) MVA. Transmission networks measuring about (3,029) km-circular were also added.
The total voltage of the substations and ultra-high voltage substations reached (699) and (1,982) transformers with a total capacity of (203,006) MVA.
National Grid SA works to regularly improve and develop transmission networks (110 - 380) KV in all sectors of the Saudi Electricity Company (Central, East, West and South). The Company aims to raise the readiness of the network and ensure the continuity of its reliability.
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