New Delhi: Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) has secured a major order for setting up two Thermal Power Projects (TPP) in Maharashtra, involving five new-rating units of 270 MW each.

Valued at Rs 5,778 crore, the order for the greenfield power projects, located at Nasik (5x270 MW) and Amravati (5x270 MW), both in Maharashtra, has been placed on BHEL by Elena Power & Infrastructure, a company of the Indiabulls group.

 
BHEL’s scope of work in the contract envisages design, engineering, manufacture, supply, erection and commissioning of steam turbines, generators and boilers, along with associated auxiliaries and electrical, besides state-of-the-art controls & instrumentation (C&I) and electrostatic precipitators (ESPs).
 
The turbine generators and boilers will be manufactured at the company’s Haridwar and Trichy plants respectively, and the C&I systems will be supplied by BHEL’s Electronics Division, Bangalore.

The company’s Hyderabad plant will manufacture the coal mills and boiler feed pumps, while the Electricals will be supplied by BHEL's Bhopal and Jhansi plants. BHEL's Ranipet plant will manufacture and supply the ESPs.
 
BHEL has fully established state-of-the-art technology for the manufacture of thermal sets up to 1,000 MW rating. To meet customer demand, the company has introduced new rating thermal sets of 270 MW, 525 MW and 600 MW, in addition to 660 MW and 800 MW thermal sets with supercritical parameters.
—iGovernment Bureau