Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (Bhel) has bagged the Rs 1,589 crore project for setting up a 500 mw capacity unit at Birsinghpur thermal power station in Madhya Pradesh. The project is expected to be commissioned in 42 months.
The contract envisaged design, manufacture, supply, erection, testing and commissioning of main plant equipment, comprising turbine generators and boilers with the associated auxiliaries and control and instrumentation system (C&I), said an official release here yesterday.
The turbine generators and boilers would be built by Bhel's Haridwar and Trichy plants, while C&I system would be supplied by its electronics division in Bangalore.
Bhel's Hyderabad plant would manufacture coal mills and boiler feed pumps and transformers would come from the Jhansi plant.
Earlier, Bhel had supplied and commissioned four thermal sets of 210 mw each at the Birsinghpur and the Satapura power stations. Two sets of 120 mw thermal sets were in operation at the Amarkantak thermal power station of the Madhya Pradesh State Electricity Board.
BHEL, having the capacity to build 500-1000 MW thermal sets, had so far bagged 27 orders for 500 MW. Of these, 20 included sets commissioned at Trombay, Singrauli, Ramagundam, Korba, Farakka, Chanrapur, Vindhyanchal, Simhadri and Talchar, the release said.
