Valued at INR26.65bn, the order is for supplying and installing the main plant package for DBPL’s upcoming coal-based thermal power project at Baradarha in Janjgir 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.
BHEL 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 received by the company during the year, the orders received from independent power producers accounted for 14,689MW. This constituted nearly 90% of the total orders booked by BHEL’s power sector.
