Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (Bhel) on Wednesday said that it had secured an order for the main plant package for an upcoming thermal power project in Orissa, involving two new-rating units of 600 mw each.
An independent power producer?Jindal India Thermal Power Limited (JITPL) placed Rs 2,600-crore on public sector electric equipment behemoth for the greenfield power project, located at Derang in Angul district of Orissa.
Coming close on the heels of an order for a 600-mw thermal plant of Korba West Power Company in Chhattisgarh, this order is a testimony to the confidence reposed by Independent Power Producers (IPPs) in Bhel?s capabilities.
Significantly, private sector has been reposing confidence in Bhel and in the current fiscal, nearly 95% of the total orders bagged by Bhel, have come from private sector customers. Bhel?s scope of work in the present contract envisages design, engineering, manufacture, supply, erection and commissioning of steam turbines, generators and boilers, along with associated auxiliaries and electricals, besides state-of-the-art controls & instrumentation (C&I) and electrostatic precipitators (ESPs).
Bhel has fully established state-of-the-art technology for the manufacture of thermal sets up to 1,000 mw rating. It has also introduced new rating thermal sets of 270 mw, 525 mw and 600 mw. In 2008-09, the installed capacity of Bhel-supplied utility sets went up to 87,646 mw and the company maintained its share of 64% in the country?s total installed capacity of 1,38,175 mw. Bhel has been committed to the nation?s power development programme and has reaffirmed its commitment to the Indian power sector by equipping itself for the future, by way of technology, facilities and trained manpower to meet the country?s power forecast for the 11th Plan and beyond.
For this, it has already enhanced its manufacturing capacity to 10,000 mw per annum and is further augmenting it to 15,000 mw per annum which is proceeding apace and plans are afoot to hike it further to 20,000 mw by 2011-12.