Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited has signed up with the Telangana State Power Generation Corporation Limited for supply of fuel flexible supercritical boilers for projects coming up in Telangana.

In view of the uncertainty of coal supply, BHEL has decided to supply its in-house developed fuel flexible boiler capable of firing 100 per cent domestic to 100 per cent imported mix of coal. This has been designed and developed by BHEL drawing from over five decades of experience and working on different types of coal sourced by power plants.

Supercritical plant

BHEL has signed up with the Telangana government for construction of new thermal power plants with total installed capacity of 6,000 MW over the next three years to bridge the demand-supply gap in the newly carved out State.

As a part of the memorandum signed with Telangana, BHEL has announced it would supply first supercritical thermal power plant worth ₹3,810 crore for setting up of a 800 MW coal based thermal power plant on EPC mode at Kothagudem in Khammam district.

B Prasada Rao, Chairman and Managing Director of BHEL, who recently met Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, was handed over a cheque of ₹350 crore as advance for the project. The project is targeted to be implemented within 36 months on a fast-track mode with both BHEL and TSGENCO setting up teams to work. The power gear maker BHEL has a long association with the erstwhile State of Andhra Pradesh having developed majority of the power plants in Ramagundam, Vijayawada, Kothagudem, and Rayalaseema plants.

New orders

According to BHEL, the scope of the work includes design, engineering, manufacture, supply, construction and erection of the 800 MW supercritical project on EPC mode. The equipment for the project would be developed at BHEL’s Tiruchi and other units with civil works to be handled by BHEL’s western region. With this, BHEL now has won orders for supply and installation of 36 supercritical boilers and 31 turbines of 660/700/800 MW ratings.

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