BHEL commissions 800 MW supercritical thermal power plant

Located at Gadarwara in Narsinghpur district of Madhya Pradesh, India, the greenfield project is being developed by NTPC Ltd. The first unit of this project was commissioned by BHEL in 2019 and is presently under commercial operation.

So far, BHEL has commissioned 24 sets of supercritical boilers and 20 sets of supercritical turbine generators of 660/700/800 MW rating, out of which 8 sets of supercritical boilers and 6 sets of supercritical turbine generators have been commissioned for NTPC Ltd.

BHEL’s scope of work in the project envisaged design, engineering, manufacture, supply and erection and commissioning of steam turbines, generators, boilers and associated auxiliaries, besides state-of-the-art controls and instrumentation (C&I) and electrostatic precipitators (ESPs).

The key equipment for the project was manufactured at BHEL’s Trichy, Haridwar, Bhopal, Ranipet, Hyderabad, Jhansi, Thirumayam and Bengaluru plants, while the construction of the plant was undertaken by the company’s Power Sector – Northern Region, Noida.

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