Mumbai-based Bajel Projects, an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) company specializing in power transmission and distribution infrastructure, has secured an order to set up a 2×500 MVA, 400/220 kV air-insulated switchgear (AIS) substation at Saswad, Pune district, Maharashtra, from Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission Company (MSETCL).

The order’s value is over ₹7 billion (~$75.8 million).

Bajel must provide the complete turnkey EPC of the AIS substation. This will include the substation’s design, erection, testing, and commissioning.

The company must also provide the associated transmission lines and undertake the substation’s civil works.

The substation will include a 1×125 MVAr bus reactor at the 400 kV voltage level. Bajel must design the substation with provisions for future expansion. Its scope of work includes providing bays at three other substations to help the Saswad substation integrate into the existing transmission grid.

The company must construct multiple new 400 KV and 200 KV transmission lines and line-in-line-out configurations to connect the substation to the state’s broader grid.

Bajel works in both the power transmission and power distribution sectors. It also provides international EPC services and monopole manufacturing.

The company also secured an EPC order from Tata Power Company to install a 220 kV transmission line using monopoles for the Kalwa Kalyan Pal Line transmission project in Mumbai. The company will execute this order within 10 months.

Bajel’s power transmission portfolio includes transmission lines, extra-high-voltage (EHV) substations, and EHV underground cables. It has laid over 7,000 circuit kilometers of EHV transmission lines and more than 40 EHV AIS/gas-insulated switchgear substations.

The company has over 25 power transmission projects under execution with state, central, and private utilities.

Last July, Bajel Projects secured an EPC order for package TL04 of the Siwani-Jind 400 kV double-circuit (quad) transmission line from Power Grid Corporation of India. The order’s value was estimated to be between ₹3 billion (~$34.88 million) and ₹4 billion (~$46.51 million).

In the same month, Bajel announced it would invest ₹1.7 billion (~$19.78 million) in more than doubling its galvanizing capacity at its Ranjangaon facility in Maharashtra. Galvanized steel is widely used in mounting structures and frames for solar panels, as well as in transmission infrastructure. The investment will also be utilized to enhance its production capabilities in transmission towers, monopoles, lighting towers, and high masts.