BHEL has won an order worth Rs 5,600 crore from Tamil Nadu Govt

Rs 5,000 cr order is for setting up a 1,600 Mw coal-based thermal power project with super critical parameters

The Tamil Nadu Government has handed over the Letter of Award (LOA) for setting up of the Main Plant Package for the 2X800 mega watt (Mw) Uppur Supercritical Thermal Power Project. The order is valued at around Rs 5,600 crore.

The letter was handed over by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa to BHEL Chairman and Managing Director Atul Sobti at Chennai and it was followed by the foundation stone laying ceremony for the project last week.

BHEL has bagged this major order for setting up 1,600 Mw coal-based thermal power project with super critical parameters, involving two units of the country's highest rating 800 MW sets in Tamil Nadu.

The order is for the main plant package for the greenfield project, which will come at Ramanathapuram district in Tamil Nadu and the order was placed by Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation. Scope of work includes design, engineering, manufacture, supply, erection, commissioning and civil works for the main plant package.

This is the second 800 Mw rating supercritical order awarded to BHEL from TANGEDCO in less than a month.

According to BHEL's release, the public sector company has a share of 83 per cent in TANGEDCO's cumulative coal-based generating capacity, including two 600 MW sets commissioned in 2013 at North Chennai TPP.

The project is slated to be commissioned by September 2019.