Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) has added one more coal-based power plant to the grid by successfully commissioning the 500 MW Unit-13 of Vindhyachal Super Thermal Power Station (STPS), Stage-V of NTPC. The project is located in Vindhyanagar in Singrauli district of Madhya Pradesh. Significantly, company has earlier commissioned 6 units of 500 MW rating each at Vindhyachal power station. With the commissioning of this unit, company has now commissioned 7 sets of 500 MW aggregating to 3,500 MW, the highest by BHEL in a power project.
The company’s scope of work in the contract envisaged design, engineering, manufacture, supply and erection & commissioning of Steam Generator and Steam Turbine Generator along with associated Auxiliaries and state-of-the-art Controls & Instrumentation. The equipment for the project was manufactured at BHEL's Trichy, Ranipet, Haridwar, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Bhopal Plants, while the company’s Power Sector - Western Region undertook erection and commissioning of the equipment.
BHEL is the largest engineering and manufacturing organization of its kind in the country. It is also among the world's few integrated power plant equipment manufacturers with the capability to manufacture the entire range / type of power equipment and also to undertake projects on EPC basis.
