BHEL bags Rs 2,665-cr order from Chattisgarh

TIRUCHIRAPALLI: Engineering major BHEL has bagged a Rs 2,665-crore order for supply and installation of a 2x600-MW thermal power plant in Raigarh in Chattisgarh.

The order by Visa Power Ltd, an Independent Power Producer (IPP), includes design, engineering, manufacture, supply, erection, testing and commissioning of boilers, steam turbines and generators, along with controls and instrumentation besides associated auxiliaries.

A BHEL press release said the PSU has so far secured orders for 19 of the relatively newer rated 600-MW sets.

It added that orders from IPPs accounted for a record 90 per cent of total orders for 16,489-MW power plant equipment booked by BHEL in the last fiscal.