BHEL Trichy plans to increase plant capacity

BHEL, Trichy, would increase the plant capacity from 4000 mw to 5750 mw with an investment of Rs 190 crore. The capacity expansion has already started and would be completed in 18 months, by mid 2007.

The boiler maker had orders worth Rs 4,300 crores for the current financial year. Apart from this, the highest-ever outstanding orders worth Rs 8200 crore was resting with Trichy complex.

The major orders include 1 x 500 mw for NTPC at Korba, 1 x 500 mw thermal power station each at Vijayawada and Bhoopalapalli in Andhra Pradesh, 2 x 250 mw power plant at Chabbra in Rajasthan and other units for Nalco and Angul and Hindustan Zinc Ltd at Chanderiya.

On the exports front, it secured an order worth Rs 314 crore for 4 x 125 mw steam turbine based thermal power plant from the National Electricity Corporation at Kosti, Sudan. Other orders included oil field equipment supplies to Syria and supplies to a new customer in Australia.

The thrust area for the current year will be marketing pro-actively for the super critical boilers of 800 mw and larger boilers. This will be keeping in mind the country's requirement for large scale capacity addition to bridge the growing power shortfall.

For the super critical technology, BHEL, Trichy, had tied up with France-based Alstom and the engineering and design of the super critical thermal sets were already available at the Trichy complex, Gopalakrishnan said.