The two firms will cooperate on standards and specifications, engineering and design, maintenance and operation, technical exchange forums and technology roadmap.
The scope of the partnership will include equipment such as HV switchgear, power transformers, and substation automation solutions, including protection and measurement IEDs.
Digital substation, smart grid and supergrid applications, network management as well as maintenance are covered under the cooperation.
Alstom Technical Institute will provide training courses to National Grid engineers.
Alstom Grid designs, manufactures, installs and services the power transmission and distribution products and systems.
The company manufactures equipment for long-distance transmission at voltages up to 1200kV, switchgears for air-insulated substations or gas-insulated substations, instrument transformers, circuit breakers, disconnectors, power transformers and substation automation solutions.
