BHEL plans to re-enter wind turbine manufacturing business

Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) is planning to re-enter wind turbine manufacturing space in the next three months. The public sector power equipment major said it was planning to join hands with a foreign technology partner for the re-entry.

BHEL also said it was in the final stage of finalising another foreign partner to bid for water desalination projects in the country, according to a senior official.

A Chandrababu, general manager in-charge, BHEL Ranipet unit, through which BHEL will re-enter the wind turbine manufacturing, said the company was likely to finalise the technology partner in the next three months.

The unit’s existing fabrication facility will be used to manufacture towers and nossels, while it will take another two years to set up a wind blade manufacturing facility near the existing unit in Ranipet.

BHEL that used to manufacture 250 Kw wind turbine generators earlier and discontinued it due to drop in the demands. The company is now looking at manufacturing 1.5-2 Mw machines.

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