The Hindu Business Line : BHEL's power generating sets achieve record output

Power equipment major Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) on Friday said its electricity generating sets produced a record 402.6 billion units during 2005-06, up five per cent over the previous year.

Its thermal sets achieved a high plant load factor (PLF) of 75 per cent during the year — better than the national average by 1.5 per cent, the company said in a statement here.

As many as 39 BHEL thermal sets achieved a PLF of over 90 per cent, the State-owned firm said. The company, which enjoys a 65 per cent market share in the country's total installed capacity of 1,18,561 MW, added 13 utility and 15 captive/industrial sets of 2,365 MW in the country during the course of the last fiscal. With this, the total installed capacity of BHEL-made utility sets went up to 76,741 MW, it said.

Tech ready

BHEL has the technology for design, manufacture, erection and commissioning for thermal sets up to 500 MW ratings and has the capability to manufacture sets up to 1,000 MW ratings, it said.

The company is equipping itself to cater to the Government's power capacity addition programme, including the proposed ultra-mega thermal power projects.

BHEL has tied up technology for 800 MW thermal sets with super critical parameters, besides taking steps to enhance its annual manufacturing capacity from the present 6,000 MW to 10,000 MW per annum, the statement said.

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