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Driving the world’s largest lift irrigation project
ELECTRIC MOTOR MANUFACTURER, WEG, has supplied electric motors for the world’s largest lift irrigation project, the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme (KLIS) in Telangana, India.
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Following two years of construction, the project was completed in June 2020. The multi-purpose project that commenced in 2018 reinforced the storage of water available for irrigation in the region — 8,000 km 2 of land across 13 districts of the state — and increased groundwater levels in the Godavari River Basin. The increased river water supply is set to improve subsistence for the population through fishing and tourism.
To complete the project, WEG supplied 14 40MW 30-pole motors to Xylem India, one of the world’s largest hydraulic pump manufacturers. Xylem India coupled these motors to its high-capacity pumps, specified by Megha Engineering & Infrastructures, the company responsible for the engineering, procurement and construction of KLIS.
The electric motors were the largest ever manufactured in the WEG India factory, each weighing 262 tonnes and they were assembled and tested at the project site.
