Bharat Heavy Electricals has bagged orders valued at Rs.3,900 crore for the supply and installation of the main plant package at two power stations in Maharashtra, involving three units of 500 MW each.

The orders have been placed by Maharashtra State Power Generation Co (MAHAGENCO), for a 500 MW unit at Khaperkheda thermal power station expansion project and 2x500 MW units at Bhusawal thermal power station expansion project.

BHEL's scope of work involves design, engineering manufacture, supply, erection and commissioning of steam turbines, generators, boilers, state-of-the-art controls & instrumentation for the entire main plant and electricals, besides associated auxiliaries.

Work on the project is scheduled for completion in the XI Plan, these units will add 36 million units every day to the grid on commissioning. Significantly, with this, the BHEL's power sector order booking has crossed the Rs.20,000 crore mark in a single year, for the first time in the history of the company.

Khaperkheda TPS is already equipped with four BHEL-built units of 210 MW each, whereas Bhusawal TPS is equipped with two BHEL built units of 210 MW each. Notably, the Bhusawal units were commissioned more than 25 years ago. All these units have been performing exceedingly well since commissioning. For MAHAGENCO, the company is presently executing orders for the main plant package for 4x250 MW units - two each at their New Parli TPS and Paras TPS expansion project.

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 for power projects, suited to Indian conditions, using Indian as well as imported coal. So far, orders for 47 numbers of 500 MW rating sets have been won, of which 27 have been commissioned.