Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has received a major order from Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) for supply and installation of the main plant package for a power project in Andhra Pradesh, involving two thermal power generating units of 600 MW each.

The contract, valued at Rs.40,710 mn, envisages setting up a 2×600 MW thermal power generating unit for SCCL’s upcoming coal-based super thermal power project, located at Adilabad in Andhra Pradesh.

BHEL’s scope of work in the contract envisages design, engineering, manufacture, supply, erection, testing and commissioning of Steam Turbines, Generators and Boilers, along with state-of-the-art Controls and Instrumentation (C&I) and auxiliaries including associated civil work.

Significantly, only two orders for coal-based Boiler Turbine Generator (BTG) packages, namely 2×660 MW – DB Power and 2×600 MW – SCCL, have been finalised in the country in the current financial year, since April, 2011, and both have been secured by BHEL.

BHEL has fully established state-of-the-art technology for the manufacture of thermal sets up to 1,000 MW rating. To meet customer demand, the company has introduced new rating thermal sets of 270 MW, 525 MW and 600 MW, in addition to 250 MW and 500 MW thermal sets. Notably, BHEL has so far secured orders for Twenty Three (23) numbers of 600 MW thermal sets.

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