Bharat Heavy Electricals bagged an order worth Rs.129 crore from Hindustan Zinc for setting up a captive power plant at Jawar Mines in Udaipur district of Rajasthan.

BHEL's scope of work envisages design, engineering, manufacture, supply, installation, erection, testing and commissioning of the power plant. Major equipment to be supplied includes 80 MW steam turbine generator and 320 tph pulverised fuel fired boilers with state-of-the-art controls and instrumentation (C&I) and all associated auxiliaries.

The steam turbine generator will be manufactured at BHEL's Hyderabad plant, the boiler will be manufactured at its Trichy plant. BHEL's electronics division, Bangalore will supply the control system and the auxiliaries will be supplied by its Ranipet plant. The erection and commissioning of the equipment will be carried out by the company's power sector - Western region, Nagpur.

BHEL has earlier executed a turnkey order for two units of 77 MW each at HZL's CPP Chanderia lead zinc smelter plant in Chittorgarh district of Rajasthan. Presently, for HZL, the company is executing another order for one unit of 80 MW at the same captive power plant.