BHEL wins Rs.11,500 Million Turnkey Contract for a Captive Power Plant, Highest value single order for Captive Power Plant Business Segment

Under international competitive bidding, engineering major Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited BHEL has won a turnkey contract for setting up an energy efficient and environment friendly 153 MW captive power plant at the upcoming Guru Gobind Singh Refinery at Bhatinda in Punjab.

Valued at Rs.11,500 Million, the order has been placed on the company by HMEL, a joint venture of HPCL and L.N. Mittals, Mittal Energy Limited.

The customer has opted to source the captive power plant from BHEL in view of its techno economic superiority, a testimony to the customers confidence in BHELs capability. Significantly, this is the largest value single order secured by BHEL for a captive power plant.

The 153 MW gas turbine based combined cycle power plant will meet the power and process steam requirement of the upcoming refinery and is slated for commissioning in a tight schedule of 30 months.

BHELs scope of work in the project envisages design, engineering, manufacture, supply, erection and commissioning of the captive power plant, in addition to complete civil works. The equiment for the project will be supplied by BHELs plants at Hyderabad, Trichy, Ranipet, Bhopal, Jhansi and Electronics Division, Bangalore. Civil works and erection and commissioning of the captive power plant will be carried out by the companys Power Sector Northern Region.

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, fertiliser etc., in domestic and overseas markets.