"Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has added one more coal-based power plant to the grid by successfully commissioning the 500 MW Unit-l3 of Vindhyachal Super Thermal Power Station (STPS), Stage-V of NTPC," the company said in a regulatory filing.
The project is located in Vindhyanagar in Singrauli district of Madhya Pradesh, it added.
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BHEL has earlier commissioned six units of 500 MW each at Vindhyachal power station, it said.
"With the commissioning of this unit, BHEL has now commissioned 7 sets of 500 MW aggregating to 3,500 MW, the highest by BHEL in a power project," it added.
BHEL's scope of work in the contract envisages design, engineering, manufacture, supply and erection besides, commissioning of steam generator and steam turbine generator along with associated auxiliaries, controls and instrumentation, it said.
The equipment for the project was manufactured at BHEL's Trichy, Ranipet, Haridwar, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Bhopal plants, while the company's power sector-western region undertook erection and commissioning of the equipment.