BHEL continues winning streak - Secures Rs.57,780 Million Mega Contract for installing 10 sets of 270 MW thermal units in Maharashtra

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has secured a major order for setting up two Thermal Power Projects (TPP) in Maharashtra, involving five new-rating units of 270 MW each.

Valued at Rs.57,780 Million, the order for the greenfield power projects, located at Nasik (5x270 MW) and Amravati (5x270 MW), both in Maharshatra, has been placed on BHEL by Elena Power & Infrastructure Limited (EPIL), a company of the Indiabulls group, and reflects the customer’s confidence in the company’s technological excellence and capability in executing projects of this magnitude.

The order is testimony to the confidence reposed by Independent Power Producers (IPPs) in BHEL’s capabilities. It also reinforces BHEL’s leadership status in the execution of thermal power projects involving supply of state-of-the-art equipment, suited to Indian coal and Indian conditions.

BHEL’s scope of work in the contract envisages design, engineering, manufacture, supply, erection and commissioning of Steam Turbines, Generators and Boilers, along with associated Auxiliaries and Electricals, besides state-of-the-art Controls & Instrumentation (C&I) and Electrostatic Precipitators (ESPs).

The Turbine Generators and Boilers will be manufactured at the company’s Haridwar and Trichy plants respectively, and the C&I systems will be supplied by BHEL’s Electronics Division, Bangalore. The company’s Hyderabad plant will manufacture the Coal Mills and Boiler Feed Pumps, while the Electricals will be supplied by BHEL's Bhopal and Jhansi plants. BHEL's Ranipet plant will manufacture and supply the ESPs.

BHEL has fully established state-of-the-art technology for the manufacture of thermal sets up to 1,000 MW rating. To meet customer demand, the company has introduced new rating thermal sets of 270 MW, 525 MW and 600 MW, in addition to 660 MW and 800 MW thermal sets with supercritical parameters.

BHEL has been committed to the nation’s power development programme and has reaffirmed its commitment to the Indian Power Sector by equipping itself for the future, by way of contemporary technology, state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities and skilled technical manpower to meet the country’s power forecast for the 11th Plan and beyond.