Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) has won an order for setting up a 25 MW Floating Solar Photovoltaic (SPV) Power Plant on Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) basis, at Simhadri in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Valued at over Rs 100 crore, the order has been placed on BHEL by NTPC.
The plant will be set up on the raw water reservoir of NTPC's Simhadri Thermal Power Plant. Notably, this is the second order of floating SPV plant from NTPC, the earlier being 100 MW floating SPV plant at Ramagundam in the state of Telangana. With this order, BHEL has emerged as the largest EPC player in the floating solar PV segment in India with a portfolio of 130 MW.
BHEL is India’s largest engineering and manufacturing company of its kind. It is a power plant equipment manufacturer and operates as an engineering and manufacturing company.
