Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has commissioned a 195 MW thermal unit at Muzaffarpur Thermal Power Station (TPS) plant of Kanti Bijlee Utpadan Nigam Limited (KBUNL), a joint venture of NTPC Ltd and BSPGCL, in Bihar. This is the first 195 MW unit to be commissioned by BHEL at the 2x195 MW Muzaffarpur TPS plant.
BHEL is the leading supplier of main plant equipment to NTPC and its joint ventures, with a 72% share in their installed capacity. BHEL’s scope of work in the Muzaffarpur project envisaged design, engineering, manufacture, supply, erection and commissioning of steam turbines, generators and boilers, along with associated auxiliaries and electricals, besides controls & instrumentation (C&I) and electrostatic precipitators (ESPs).
The second 195 MW unit is expected to be commissioned in FY 2015-16. Earlier, in the first week of March, 2015, a 660 MW supercritical thermal unit was commissioned by BHEL at Barh in Bihar.
BHEL is the leading supplier of main plant equipment to NTPC and its joint ventures, with a 72% share in their installed capacity. BHEL’s scope of work in the Muzaffarpur project envisaged design, engineering, manufacture, supply, erection and commissioning of steam turbines, generators and boilers, along with associated auxiliaries and electricals, besides controls & instrumentation (C&I) and electrostatic precipitators (ESPs).
The second 195 MW unit is expected to be commissioned in FY 2015-16. Earlier, in the first week of March, 2015, a 660 MW supercritical thermal unit was commissioned by BHEL at Barh in Bihar.