BHEL commissions 270 MW thermal unit in Maharashtra

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has successfully commissioned another 270 MW coal based thermal power plant in Maharashtra on March 11, 2015. Incidentally, on the same day, BHEL has also commissioned the second 660 MW supercritical thermal unit at NTPC Barh in Bihar.
 
The unit was commissioned at RattanIndia Power Limited’s (formerly Indiabulls Power Limited) upcoming thermal power project located at village Nandgaonpeth in Amravati district of Maharashtra. This is the fourth 270 MW unit commissioned by BHEL in Phase-1 of the project. The project is being executed in two phases, each of 1,350 MW.
 
Significantly, the commissioning of Amravati Unit 4 comes close on the heels of the commissioning of Amravati Unit 3 which was commissioned on January 29, 2015. The fifth and last unit of Phase I of the project is also in an advanced stage of execution.