Valued at INR25.25bn, the contract envisages supplying and installing the main plant package for Phase-I (2x270MW) and Phase-II (2x270MW) of the upcoming coal-based Matrishri Usha Jayaswal power plant located in the Latehar district.
BHEL’s scope of work in the contract envisages design, engineering, manufacture, supply, erection, testing and commissioning of boilers, steam turbines and turbo-generators along with controls and instrumentation and other associated auxiliaries.
The company claims that it secured its highest ever orders from private power utilities in fiscal 2009-10. Out of the total orders of 16,489MW for power plant equipment during the year, the orders received from IPPs accounted for 14,689MW. This constituted nearly 90% of the total orders booked by BHEL’s power sector.
