What counts as power plant construction equipment?
A power project needs two kinds of equipment. The plant itself, meaning turbines, boilers, solar modules, transformers and towers, comes from the power equipment makers. The machines on this page do the site work around it: they clear and grade the land, cut the access roads, dig the foundations and cable trenches, lift the parts into place and keep coal and ash moving once a thermal station runs.
On a solar park that means dozers, motor graders, compactors and small excavators. A wind farm adds deep foundations and long access roads. Hydroelectric projects need large excavators and dozers for the dam, the tunnels and the powerhouse, and transmission lines and substations need excavators, backhoe loaders, transit mixers and pick and carry cranes. Some of the work runs on machines DesiMachines does not list: crawler cranes for wind turbine erection, piling and ramming rigs for solar mounting structures, tippers, and the stringing machines that pull conductors on transmission lines.
Where is power project work concentrated in India?
Renewable work follows the sun, the wind and the rivers. According to the state-wise capacity figures of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Rajasthan and Gujarat have the most solar capacity, followed by Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. Gujarat and Tamil Nadu lead on wind, ahead of Karnataka, Maharashtra and Rajasthan. The same ministry says most of the country’s wind potential lies in eight states, which also include Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Telangana.
Hydroelectric capacity, as the ministry counts it, is largest in Himachal Pradesh, followed by Uttarakhand, Karnataka and Jammu and Kashmir. Hill states mean tunnel, dam and access road work, where dozers and large excavators earn the most. Solar parks in the desert states are mostly land grading, roads and trenches, which suits graders, compactors and small excavators.
Who builds and owns India’s power projects?
Power projects are built by public sector companies and by private developers. Both award the civil and site work to contractors, which is where a machine owner usually finds the job. The list is alphabetical, not a ranking.
| Company or body |
What it builds, owns or runs |
| Adani Green Energy |
Private developer of solar, wind and hybrid plants, including the renewable energy park at Khavda in Gujarat |
| NHPC |
State-owned hydroelectric power company that has added solar and wind projects |
| NTPC |
State-owned power company that began with thermal stations and now also builds renewable plants and runs coal mines |
| Power Grid Corporation of India |
State-owned company that builds and runs transmission lines and substations, including most of the inter-regional network |
| ReNew |
Private developer of solar, wind and hydro projects in several states |
| SJVN |
Power company set up by the Centre and the Himachal Pradesh government; runs hydro, thermal, solar and wind stations |
| Solar Energy Corporation of India |
Public sector company under the renewable energy ministry that runs the tenders that choose developers for solar and other renewable projects |
| Tata Power |
Private power company with hydroelectric and other power stations; its renewables arm builds solar and wind plants |
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41 models 
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66 models 
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11 models 
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