NEW DELHI:
Bharat Heavy Electricals has bagged a Rs 291 crore order to set up a 101 MW Combined Cycle Power Plant for Tamil Nadu Electricity Board.

BHEL, which will execute the project at Kuttalam in Tamil Nadu on Engineering Procureement Construction contractor basis, would complete the project in 21 months, a company statement said here.

Besides BHEL, bidders for the project included L&T and Sumitomo Corporation who had offered the proven state of the art Advanced Class Gas Turbine (Fr6FA) of GE, USA technology.

While the gas turbine and steam turbine will be manufactured at BHEL's Hyderabad plant, the HRSG will be manufactured at the company's Trichy plant.

The controls and instrumentation will be supplied by BHEL's Electronics Division, Bangalore, and the electrics will be supplied by the company's Jhansi plant.BHEL has won similar contracts, involving the manufacture and supply of Advance Class Gas Turbines (Fr6FA) for 108 MW Kovilkalappal CCPP, followed by 95 MW Perungulam CCPP of TNEB and 107 MW Dhuvaran CCPP of GSECL, on EPC basis.

While Kovilkalappal CCPP was commissioned in March 2001, Perungulam CCPP is in an advanced stage and is likely to be commissioned shortly, the release added.