Bharat Heavy Electricals bagged an order worth Rs.866 crore from Reliance Industries for setting up a 345 MW gas-based combined cycle power plant at Nagothane in Raigad district of Maharashtra.

BHEL's scope of work envisages design, engineering, manufacture, supply, erection and commissioning of one frame 9FA gas turbine generator set, one steam turbine generator set and one heat recovery steam generator with state of the art controls and instrumentation, associated auxiliaries and balance of plant, in addition to complete civil works and select spares.

While the gas turbine generator will be manufactured at BHEL's Hyderabad plant, the HRSG and state of the art control system will be manufactured at the company's Trichy plant & Electronics Division, Bangalore, respectively.

Significantly, this is the first commercial order on BHEL for an advanced class frame 9FA gas turbine. The project is being set up to meet the power requirement of Reliance Retail and other RIL ventures and is expandable up to 1,000 MW in future.

The work order is slated for completion within 26 months.

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