BHEL bags Rs 3,588 cr turnkey contract

Combined Cycle Power Plant produces electricity and the waste heat is used to make steam to generate additional electricity via steam engine.      

The order has placed by Pragati Power Corporation Ltd and also involves supply and commissioning of four gas turbines for Pragati-III CCPP, a company release said.     

The company had earlier won similar Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC) contracts for 700 MW gas turbine-based CCPP from GSPC Pipavav Power Company, 350 MW gas-turbine based at Hazira and 345 MW at Nagothane in Maharashtra.     

It had earlier set up 330 MW Pragati CCPP on a turnkey basis.     

BHEL would take up designing, engineering, manufacture, supply, erection and commissioning and civil works in the project. The company would commission two steam turbine generator sets and four heat recovery steam generators.    

The company has raised its manufacturing capacity to 10,000 MW per annum and is working towards taking it to 15,000 MW in the next two years with an investment of Rs 4,200 crore.