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BHEL commissions 500 MW thermal unit in Maharashtra

| | Apr 01, 2016, at 08:43 pm
# Maharashtra # BHEL commissions 500 MW thermal
Mumbai, Apr 1 (IBNS) Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) announced on Friday that it has successfully commissioned its fifth 500 MW set at Chandrapur Super Thermal Power Project (STPP) in Maharashtra.
With this, nine coal-based sets aggregating to 3,340 MW, all supplied and commissioned by BHEL, are now operational at Chandrapur STPP of Maharashtra State Power Generation Co. Ltd (MAHAGENCO). 
 
The commissioned unit is the second 500 MW unit of Stage-III (2x500 MW) of the project being executed by BHEL. 
 
BHEL said it has been a major partner in the power development programme in Maharashtra and has contributed more than 15,500 MW of generating capacity to the state, which is the highest capacity added by BHEL in a single state. 
 
The company has supplied over 85% of the coal-based sets installed by the state utility. 
 
BHEL’s scope of work in the Chandrapur STPP Stage-III contract envisaged design, engineering, manufacture, supply, erection and commissioning of Steam Turbines, Generators and Boilers, along with associated Auxiliaries and Electricals, besides state-of-the-art Controls & Instrumentation (C&I) and Electrostatic Precipitators (ESPs). 
 
BHEL had earlier commissioned the first set of this project in March, 2015. 

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