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BHEL wins Rs.2,030 Crore contract for 1000 MW
Nabinagar power project
New Delhi, March 17, 2008
Under International Competitive Bidding (ICB), Bharat Heavy
Electricals Limited (BHEL) has won orders for the supply and
installation of the Main Plant Package at the upcoming 1,000
MW Nabinagar Thermal Power Project in Bihar, involving four
units of 250 MW each.
Valued at around Rs.2,030 Crore, the orders have been placed
on BHEL by Bhartiya Rail Bijlee Company Limited (BRBCL), a
joint venture company of NTPC and Indian Railways.
Significantly, with this, BHEL has won all the thermal power
plant orders finalised by NTPC and its Joint Ventures, and is
a testimony to the customer’s confidence in BHEL’s
capabilities and proven technological excellence.
Slated for synchronisation during the 11th Plan, these units
will add 24 million units every day to the grid on
commissioning.
BHEL’s scope of work in the present contract envisages design,
engineering, manufacture, supply, erection and commissioning
of Steam Generators with Electrostatic Precipitators and
Associated Auxiliaries and Turbine Generators and Associated
Auxiliaries with state-of-the-art Controls & Instrumentation
(C&I) system.
BHEL has fully established state-of-the-art technology for
manufacture of thermal sets up to 500 MW rating and has the
capability to manufacture sets up to 1,000 MW rating.
BHEL is building Capacity and Capability to contribute fully
for meeting the power forecast for the 11th Plan and beyond.
For this, the company has already enhanced its manufacturing
capacity to 10,000 MW per annum and is further augmenting it
to 15,000 MW per annum in the next two years.
Having demonstrated its track record in successfully
establishing new technologies to serve the nation’s power
sector, BHEL has equipped itself to produce thermal power
equipment for 800MW sets with supercritical parameters, suited
to Indian conditions, using Indian as well as imported coal.
In addition, the company is shoring up its capability for
higher rating Hydro sets and advanced class Gas Turbines to
cater to upcoming market requirements.
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