BHEL bags contract from KPCL

The Electronics Division of Bangalore-based Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has won a major contract for setting up an eco-friendly grid-connected solar power plant of 5 Mw capacity from Karnataka Power Corporation Limited (KPCL).

The contract is valued at Rs 62 crore. BHEL will be setting up the Solar Photovoltaic (SPV) power plant near Shivasamudram in Karnataka. BHEL’s scope of the work in the order envisages design, manufacture, supply, installation and operation and maintenance of the solar power plant. With this order, BHEL’s SPV-based power projects of various capacities totals to 16 Mw.

Significantly, KPCL has selected Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic (C-SI PV) technology for this solar power plant, which has the longest operational experience across the world.

The power plant will consist of arrays of thousands of photovoltaic panels made of crystalline silicon that will absorb sunlight and convert it into electricity that will be fed into the main grid. DC power generated by the solar panels will be converted into AC by inverters and fed into the grid through transformers.

BHEL is one of the selected players in the field of solar photovoltaics and SPV power plants in India. The SPV modules are manufactured at its manufacturing facility located at Bangalore.

Starting from small applications like solar powered street lighting, rural water pumping systems, railway signaling, and offshore drilling platforms among others. BHEL has supplied and commissioned large size stand-alone as well as grid interactive solar power plants in a number of major cities and remote areas of the country.

BHEL also exports solar cells and modules to Germany, Australia and Italy.