BHEL wins Rs 369-cr order to revive NTPC's Barh project

The project was awarded to BHEL after NTPC terminated the contract of a foreign player

State-owned BHEL today said it has bagged a Rs 369-crore order for supply and installation of a power cycle piping (PCP) package for Barh project of NTPC.

"Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has bagged a contract for supply and installation of a PCP package for Barh Super Thermal Power Project (STPP), stage-I (3x660 MW), of NTPC," BHEL said in a press release.

The project is located in Patna district in Bihar.

"Valued at Rs 369 crore, BHEL has been awarded this package by NTPC for the revival of the Barh plant and to make it operational after NTPC terminated the contract of the foreign player who was awarded the job for the supercritical boiler, including PCP in 2005, but which has not yet been completed," it said.

Scope of work includes design, engineering, manufacturing, supply, installation and commissioning of the complete PCP package.

Notably, the two units of stage-II (2x660 MW) of Barh STPP for which supply and installation of supercritical boilers and turbines was awarded to BHEL in 2008 have already been commissioned.

The first 660 MW unit at Barh STPP stage-II was dedicated to the nation by Power Minister Piyush Goyal in November 2014.

The commissioning of these two units assumes significance as the country seeks to achieve self-reliance in contemporary, state-of-the-art supercritical technology and demonstrates BHEL's capability in the same, which is expected to lower coal consumption and facilitate eco-friendly and efficient power generation.

This is not the first time BHEL has been entrusted with the revival of a project that had initially gone to a foreign company, it said. Earlier, BHEL had received an order from Ratnagiri Gas & Power Private Limited (RGPPL) for restarting the 1,967 MW gas turbine-based Combined Cycle Project at Ratnagiri.