Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has bagged a contract for setting up a 1,200 MW thermal power plant (2x600 MW) in Chhattisgarh.

This order placed by Dainik Bhaskar Power Limited (DBPL), an Independent Power Producer (IPP), is worth Rs26.65 billion for supplying and installing the main plant package for their upcoming coal-based thermal power project, located at Baradarha in Janjgir district of Chhattisgarh.

The work of BHEL ranges in the contract which envisions design, engineering, manufacture, supply, erection, testing and commissioning of Boilers, Steam Turbines and Turbo-Generators along with high-tech Controls and Instrumentation (C&I) and other associated auxiliaries.

BHEL has managed to obtain a large number of orders from Private Power Utilities in fiscal 2009-10. During the year, Out of the total orders of 16,489 MW for Power Plant Equipment received by BHEL the orders received from IPPs alone accounted for 14,689 MW. This forms nearly 90% of the total orders booked by BHEL’s Power Sector.

The company has established modern technology for the manufacture of thermal sets up to 1,000 MW rating and has introduced new rating thermal sets of 270 MW, 525 MW, and 600 MW, in addition to 250 MW and 500 MW thermal sets. With this, the company has so far secured orders of 17 units of 600 mw sets.