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BHEL bags contract for Bela Power Project

TIRUCHI: Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has bagged an order for the main plant package at the upcoming Bela Thermal Power Project (TPP) in Maharashtra, involving a new rating unit of 270 MW.

Valued at Rs.703 crore the order for the greenfield power project, located at Bela in Nagpur district, has been placed on BHEL by Ideal Energy Projects Limited.

Coming close on the heels of an order for a 600 MW thermal power plant of Korba West Power Company Limited in Chhattisgarh, this order is testimony to the confidence reposed by Independent Power Producers in BHEL’s capabilities, a release from the BHEL here said.

Major private sector customers too have been reposing confidence in BHEL and in fiscal 2008-09 orders worth over Rs.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.

BHEL’s scope of work in the present contract envisages design, engineering, manufacture, supply, erection and commissioning of boiler, steam turbine and turbo-generator, along with associated auxiliaries and state-of-the-art controls & instrumentation including generator and unit transformers.

BHEL has fully established state-of-the-art technology for the manufacture of thermal setups to 1,000 MW rating.

It has also introduced new rating thermal sets of 270 MW, 525 MW and 600 MW to meet customer demand, the release added.

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