Valued at INR57.78bn, the order for the greenfield power projects located at Nasik (5x270MW) and Amravati (5x270MW) 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, associated auxiliaries and electricals, besides controls and 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. The company’s Ranipet plant will manufacture and supply the ESPs.
BHEL has established technology for the manufacture of thermal sets up to 1,000MW rating. The company has also introduced new rating thermal sets of 270MW, 525MW and 600MW, in addition to 660MW and 800MW thermal sets with supercritical parameters.
