BHEL once again outbids Indian and Multinational Companies, Bags EPC contract for 345 MW Captive Power Plant from Reliance Industries

In the face of stiff competition from Indian and multinational companies, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited BHEL has won an order for setting up a captive power plant in Maharashtra on Engineering Procurement and Construction, EPC basis, involving supply and commissioning of an Advanced class Fr.9FA Gas Turbine.

Valued at Rs.866 Crore, Reliance Industries Limited RIL has placed the order for a 345 MW Gas Turbine based Combined Cycle Power Plant CCPP to be installed at Nagothane in district Raigad of in Maharashtra.

Significantly, this is the first commercial order on BHEL for an Advanced class Fr.9FA Gas Turbine and will open up a new line of business for the company.

The project is being set up to meet the power requirement of Reliance Retail and other RIL ventures and is expandable up to 1,000 MW in future. The project is slated for completion in a tight schedule of 26 months by BHEL.

For RIL, BHEL has already supplied and commissioned several STG sets of various capacities, which have been operating successfully and meeting the captive power needs of the customer, efficiently.

BHELs scope of work in the current project envisages design, engineering, manufacture, supply, erection and commissioning of one Frame 9FA Gas Turbine Generator set, one Steam Turbine Generator set and one Heat Recovery Steam Generator with state of the art Controls and Instrumentation, associated auxiliaries and balance of plant, in addition to complete civil works and select spares.

While the Gas Turbine Generator will be manufactured at BHELs Hyderabad plant, the HRSG and state of the art control system will be manufactured at the companys Trichy plant and Electronics Division, Bangalore, respectively.

BHEL has emerged as the market leader in cogeneration and captive power plants, offering units from 10 MW onwards for both steam turbine based and gas based combined cycle power projects for total power and process steam requirements of various industries. So far, the company has supplied and commissioned more than 700 Steam Turbine and Gas Turbine based plants for a host of industries like metal, paper, sugar, cement and process industries like refineries, petrochemicals, fertilizer etc, in India and abroad.