Power generation equipment manufacturer Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) has commissioned a second 500 MW unit at the Tuticorin Thermal Power Station (TPS) in Tamil Nadu. The first unit was commissioned on March 10.

Tuticorin TPS has been set up by NLC Tamil Nadu Power Ltd (NTPL), a joint venture of Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) and Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO). The project is situated near Thoothukudi (Tuticorin) port, on the shores of the Bay of Bengal. Earlier stages of the Tuticorin TPS comprised five units of 210 MW, all installed by BHEL in three phases between 1979 and 1992.

Recently, the capital goods major commissioned a second unit of NLC’s 250 MW circulating fluidised bed combustion (CFBC) based power plant in Neyveli. The other project being executed by the company for NLC is the 2x500 MW pulverised lignite fired thermal power plant, also coming up at Neyveli.

Notably, BHEL commissioned 8,230 MW in the power sector utility segment during the financial year 2014-15, surpassing by 19 per cent the Government’s capacity addition target of 6,914 MW set for it. In all, BHEL commissioned and synchronised 11,941 MW in the domestic and international markets in the last fiscal besides making a major contribution to another 1,600 MW by commissioning two boilers of 800 MW each.

Significantly, BHEL’s installed capacity has crossed 155 GW, including 132 GW of domestic utility sets. The company has joined the elite club of international manufacturers to have supplied power generating equipment of more than 150 GW.

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