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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

BHEL wins thermal power plant contract from SCCL

Tue,Oct18, 2011

Singareni Collieries Company Limited has placed a major order on Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited for supply and installation of the main plant package for a power project in Andhra Pradesh, involving two thermal power generating units of 600 MW each.

Valued at INR 40,710 million, the contract envisages setting up a 2x600 MW thermal power generating unit for SCCL’s upcoming coal based super thermal power project, located at Adilabad in Andhra Pradesh.

BHEL's scope of work in the contract envisages design, engineering, manufacture, supply, erection, testing and commissioning of Steam Turbines, Generators and Boilers, along with state of the art Controls and Instrumentation and auxiliaries including associated civil work.

Significantly, only two orders for coal based Boiler Turbine Generator packages, namely 2x660 MW - DB Power and 2x600 MW - SCCL, have been finalized in the country in the current financial year, since April, 2011 and both have been secured by BHEL.
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 250 MW and 500 MW thermal sets. Notably, BHEL has so far secured orders for 23 numbers of 600 MW thermal sets.

The company has also equipped itself to produce thermal sets with supercritical parameters of 660/700/800 MW unit rating suited to Indian coal and Indian conditions. Significantly, the company has established the capability to deliver 15,000 MW per annum and further augmentation to 20,000 MW per annum is underway.

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