BHEL to supply equipment to supercritical thermal project

BHEL will supply power equipment for setting up the 1,980 Mw thermal power project at Lalitpur in Uttar Pradesh. The deal worth Rs 5,450 crore came from a Bajaj group company.

“The order has been placed on BHEL by Lalitpur Power Generation Company Limited, a Bajaj group company, for setting up the 1,980 Mw Lalitpur Supercritical Thermal Power Station in Uttar Pradesh,” BHEL said in a statement. The company has bagged the main plant package contract for three coal-fired thermal units of 660 Mw each with supercritical parameters, it said. BHEL has commissioned about 9,900 Mw of power generating sets of various ratings in the state so far.

BHEL is already executing five major contracts for supply of main plant equipment with supercritical parameters for various power projects in the country. The projects are — 2×660 Mw Barh Thermal Power Project Stage-II of NTPC, 3×660 Mw Bara Thermal Power Project of Jaypee Group company, 2×800 Mw Yeramarus and 1×800 Mw Edlapur Thermal Power Projects of Raichur Power Corporation Limited and the 1×700 Mw Bellary Thermal Power Project  of Karnatak Power Company Ltd.

BHEL is also executing a contract for supply of supercritical Steam Generators to APGenco’s 2×800 Mw Krishnapatnam Thermal Power Project, which is in an advanced stage of completion. BHEL has established the capability to deliver 15,000 Mw of power equipment per annum and further augmentation to 20,000 Mw per annum is underway.