Bharat Heavy Electricals has bagged order worth Rs.842 crore from Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Utpadan (RVUNL) for setting up a 250 MW unit Suratgarh thermal power station and a 195 MW unit Kota thermal power station in Rajasthan.

BHEL's scope of work includes design, engineering, manufacture, supply, erection, testing and commissioning of main plant equipment along with associated auxiliaries. The turbine generators and steam generators will be manufactured at BHEL's Haridwar and Trichy plants respectively while BHEL's electronics divisions, Bangalore will supply the state-of-the-art Controls & Instrumentation (C&I).

Work on both the project is scheduled for completion by 2008-09.

With these contracts, BHEL has maintained its record of bagging all the orders placed by RVUNL for power generating equipment in Rajasthan. BHEL has so far commissioned over 2,400 MW of power generating sets in Rajasthan. These include thermal and gas based units of various ratings at Suratgarh & Kota TPS and Ramgarh Combined Cycle Power Plant (CCPP).

For RVUNL, the company is presently executing contracts for setting up two units of 125 MW each at the lignite-based power project at Giral; 330 MW CCPP at Dholpur and 2x250 MW TPS at Chhabra.