KEC Secures ₹10.5 Billion Orders Across Wind, Transmission Projects
The company won its first balance-of-plant order for a 100 MW wind project
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Engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractor KEC International has received orders totalling ₹10.5 billion (~$116.63 million) across various business verticals.
Foraying into the wind energy segment, KEC won a balance-of-plant package for a wind project exceeding 100 MW in Southern India from a private developer.
SAE Towers, a subsidiary of KEC, won orders for the supply of towers, hardware, and poles to the Americas. A major portion of the deliveries will be made to Mexico, showcasing an uptick in the North American transmission and distribution market.
It also won contracts to supply various types of cables and conductors in India and the overseas market.
To date, the company has won orders estimated at ₹193 billion (~$2.14 billion).
KEC’s offerings include EPC for solar projects developed by private players and rooftop solar solutions for commercial and industrial consumers. The company is also empanelled with the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) under the solar on-grid program.
Within its power transmission and distribution sector, KEC designs, manufactures, and erects transmission lines up to 1,200 kV, and provides end-to-end solutions for underground high-tension and extra-high-voltage cabling works. It specializes in the execution of gas-insulated transmission lines up to 380 kV.
KEC also executes turnkey EPC projects involving high-voltage electrical switching and distribution substations worldwide.
In December 2025, KEC won orders worth ₹11.5 billion (~$127.74 million), including a 765 kV transmission line and a 765/400 kV air-insulated substation, on a lump-sum turnkey basis.
Last November, the company won orders for the supply of transmission towers, hardware, and poles in the Middle East and the Americas, and for 400 kV transmission lines in the United Arab Emirates.
The company’s foray into wind comes amid the continued expansion of India’s wind power capacity.
As per data from the Central Electricity Authority, the MNRE, and Mercom’s India Research, India had a total installed wind capacity of 53.1 GW, accounting for nearly 10.7% of the country’s cumulative installed power capacity as of September 2025.
