Bharat Heavy Electricals bagged a turnkey order valued at Rs.68 crore for a 400 kV substation in Uttar Pradesh from Power Grid Corporation.

The order entails setting up a new 400 kV switching substation at Balia and extending the 400 kV Mau substation of UP Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL), associated with Kahalgaon Stage-II, Phase-I Transmission System.

This pooling station, at Balia, is being set up to transfer power from the 2x500 MW Kahalgaon Stage-II Phase-I thermal power station to the Northern Region through one 400 kV D/C line to Mau and another line to Lucknow. On the Eastern side, the Balia station will be connected to Patna and Biharsharif through 400 kV D/C lines to receive power from Kahalgaon. Aimed at improving the power supply in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, the project will be commissioned by BHEL in a tight schedule of just 20 months.

BHEL's scope of work in the contract envisages design, engineering, manufacture, testing, supply, erection and commissioning of 400 kV circuit breakers, 400 kV instrument transformers, control and relay panels, disc insulators and other associated auxiliaries, in addition to complete civil works. The equipment will be manufactured and supplied by BHEL's plants at Hyderabad, Bhopal and Bangalore.

BHEL & PGCIL: For PGCIL, BHEL has earlier set up 400 kV substations at Gazuwaka, Kanpur, Allahabad, Trivandrum and Siliguri, besides undertaking extensions of existing 400 kV substations at Jamshedpur, Rourkela, Farakka, Malda, Jeypore, Vijaywada, Madurai and Sriperumbdur. Similar substations presently being set up for the same customer include those at Muzaffarpur, Bareilley and Baripada, besides extensions of substations at Lucknow, Kanpur, Bina, Khandwa & Nagda.