BHEL commissions 2,400-MW OP Jindal Thermal Power Project

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has successfully commissioned the 4x600 MW OP Jindal Super Thermal Power Project (STPP) extension in Chhattisgarh with the commissioning of the fourth 600 MW thermal unit.
 
The unit has been commissioned at Jindal Power Limited (JPL)’s OP Jindal STPP located at Tamnar in Raigarh district of Chhattisgarh. BHEL has added three units of 600 MW aggregating to 1,800 MW capacity in Chhattisgarh in the last three months. BHEL’s scope of work in the contract includes design, engineering, manufacture, supply, erection, testing and commissioning of steam turbines, generators and boilers, along with associated auxiliaries and electricals, besides state-of-the-art controls & instrumentation (C&I) and electrostatic precipitators (ESPs).
 
For BARC, BHEL had earlier successfully executed 4 units of 250 MW each at Raigarh, which are in operation since 2007. Further, JPL has entrusted BHEL with setting up of another four units of 600 MW each.
 
BHEL has so far contracted 21 sets of 600 MW sets, out of which thirteen have already been commissioned.