bags NEW DELHI: In a critical breakthrough, country's largest powerequipment maker Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd has won first evercontract worth Rs 2,500 crore for supplying 800 MW supercriticalboilers.
The company has received the Rs 2,500 crore contract from AndhraPradesh Power Development Co for supply of 800 MW supercriticalboilers, BHEL said in a statement here.
It would set up 1,600 MW (2x800) steam generator at KrishnapatnamPower Project of Andhra Pradesh Power Development Company Ltd(APPDCL).
The contract includes manufacture, supply, erection, testing andcommissioning of the steam generators and other auxiliaries likeElectrostatic Precipitators (ESPs).
The supercritical boilers would be manufactured by BHEL at itsTiruchirapalli unit, coal mills and ESPs would be supplied by thecompany's Hyderabad and Ranipet plants respectively.
The company has recently formed a joint venture with Tamil NaduState Electricity Board (TNEB) for setting up 2x800 MWSupercritical Thermal Power Project in the state.
The project would be the first supercritical project in the state.
The company has also won a Rs 200 crore order for a hydro-electricpower project in Vietnam. The contract which marks company's maidenentry into that country was awarded by state-owned Nam ChienHydropower.
Major equipment to be supplied for the project comprises hydroturbines, generators, transformers, controls, monitoring andprotection system and switchgear.
As per the contract, the company would design, engineer,manufacture, supply and supervise installation as well ascommissioning of electro-mechanical equipment.

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