BHEL establishes state of the art technology

BHEL has fully established state of the art technology for the manufacture of thermal sets up to 1,000 MW rating suited to Indian conditions using Indian as well as imported coal. It has also introduced new rating thermal sets of 270 MW, 525 MW and 600 MW to meet customer demand and orders for 86 numbers of 500 MW to 600 MW rating sets have been won by the company, so far.

Significantly, major private sector customers have been reposing confidence in BHEL and in fiscal 2008-09 itself, orders worth over INR 13,000 Crore were placed on the company by Jindal Power, Jaiprakash Power Ventures, GVK Power, Hindalco, HPCL Mittal Energy Ltd., Adani Power, TATAs and ACC, among others.

In fiscal 2008-09, BHEL won orders worth INR 44,407 crore, in its Power Sector business segment, for 17,020 MW of power plants. This included the first ever orders for 800 MW supercritical boilers, 660 MW supercritical turbine generator sets and largest number of orders for 8 sets of 600 MW.

Significantly, 100% share of the R&M market for thermal sets was retained for the third successive year with orders of INR 2,770 Crore including supply of spares and services.

It is reported that BHEL has bagged an order worth INR 1,75 crore from Korba West Power Company Limited for the main plant package of the upcoming Avantha Bhandar thermal power project in Raigarh district of Chhattisgarh, involving one new rating unit of 600 MW.

However, the scope of work includes design, engineering, manufacture, supply, erection and commissioning of steam turbine, generator, boiler along with associated auxiliaries and state of the art controls and instrumentation for the power plant.

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