Končar – Power Plant and Electric Traction Engineering Inc.

Končar – Power Plant and Electric Traction Engineering Inc. (in Croatian: Končar – Inženjering za energetiku i transport d.d.; abbreviated name KONČAR - KET) is a Croatian company with headquarters in Zagreb. Končar - KET is 100% owned by Končar – Electrical Industry Inc. (in Croatian: Končar - Elektroindustrija d.d.). It is the KONČAR Group's leading sales and marketing company that also manages all engineering activities within the Group. The main business activity of Končar – KET is designing and construction of complex facilities intended for generation, transmission and distribution of power, transport and industry at "turn-key" principle.^[2]

Products and services[]

• Hydro power plants;
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• Plants and equipment intended for Thermal power station;
• Plants and equipment intended for gas and crude oil industry, water treatment and irrigation systems;
• Other electric power plants and equipment;
• Electric traction line-side equipment;
• Equipment for railway lines and railway stations;
• Control Systems in Energy Transport and Industry (dispatching control centres (SCADA), network analysis systems, hydro power plant and transformer substation control and protection systems;
• Energy and Water Supply Market Business Process Supporting Systems
• Refurbishment, modernization and maintenance of existing plants made by Končar and/or other manufacturers
• Engineering services (designing, construction site organization, erection supervision, testing and inspections, commissioning, putting in operation, etc.) intended for electric power plants and equipment

Organisation charter[]

• Energy (Generation (Hydro power plants, Thermal power plants, Renewable energy sources), Transmission (Transmission, Gas transmission system), Distribution (Power distribution, Gas distribution system))
• Eco-cities and transport (Electric traction (Electric traction substations, reactive power compensation plants, overhead contact line sectioning plants), Railway traffic safety (Level crossing protection and signalling devices, switch heating systems, track circuits for control of section occupancy), Infrastructure facilities (Transformer substations next to infrastructure facilities and main roads))
• Water management and ecology (Water management systems (Water supply, drainage, irrigation and wastewater treatment plants))
• Industry (Oil & gas, Automation of production)
• ICT and digitalization (Dispatch centers (Generation, Power Transmission and Distribution, Gas transmission and distribution system, Transport), Data centres (Data centers – key IT infrastructure), Automation, Control and Protection, Software platforms and projects (PROZA NET integration platform, Cyber security, Research projects, Automatic Generation Control))

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References, buyers and export countries[]

The Company has been continuously present on the global market with:

• More than 100 hydro power plants, 50 thermal power plants and 100 diesel power plants in the world
• More than 300 transformer substations of 72.5 to 420 kV
• More than 3000 distribution transformer substations of up to 38 kV of various types
• More than 40 electric traction substations of 25 kV (50 Hz) and more than 40 sectionalising plants of 25 kV (50 Hz)
• Several reactive power compensation plants 25 kV, 1ph
• 14 micro-computer controlled level crossings
• More than 100 remote control systems
• More than 120 water pumping stations in Egypt, Iraq and Algeria
• Several industrial power generation plants
• More than 1000 vessels equipped with electrical equipment and complete electrical plants ^[4]

Largest domestic buyers:

• HEP (CROATIAN POWER AUTHORITY), ZET (ZAGREB ELECTRIC TRAMCAR)
• HŽ (CROATIAN RAILWAYS), INA (CROATIAN OIL INDUSTRY), HAC (CROATIAN MOTORWAYS)

Recent exporting countries: Albania, Austria, Bosnia And Herzegovina, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Egypt, France, Greece, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, India, Iraq, Kenya, Macedonia, Netherlands, Nigeria, Peru, Romania, Rwanda, Slovenia, Serbia, Turkey, Zambia.^[5]

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