Power plant equipment major BHEL has bagged a Rs 2,665 crore order for supply and installation of the main plant package for Dainik Bhaskar Power Limited's 2x600 MW coal-based thermal power project at Baradarha, in Janjgir district of Chhattisgarh.
As per the contract, BHEL would be entrusted with design, engineering, MFR, supply, erection, testing and commissioning of boilers, steam turbines and turbo generators, along with state-of-the-art controls and instrumentations and other associated auxiliaries, for the project, a company statement said.
While the BHEL complex in Tiruchirapalli will take care of boiler production, its Bangalore unit will handle the installation of controls and instrumentation systems and its Ranipet unit will manufacture the auxiliaries.
BHEL said independent power producers accounted for 90 per cent of the orders it received in 2009-10 for power plant equipment with a total generation capacity of 16,489 MW.