Bhel bags its 1st commercial order for CSR

NEW DELHI: Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (Bhel) has received its first commercial order for an indigenously developed Controlled Shunt Reactor (CSR), a device to be used in high voltage transmission lines.

The order was received for supply, erection, testing and commissioning of an 80 MVAR, 400kv CSR at Karad Substation on Karad-Lonikand line on a turnkey basis from the Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission Company Limited.

The contract would be completed in 18 months and the CSR's reactor transformer would be manufactured at Bhel's Bhopal plant.

As CSRs can be taken out of the circuit even in loaded line conditions, 25-30 per cent more power can be transmitted through improvement in voltage profile as compared to a fixed shunt reactor configuration.