Bhel commissions 500-mw power plant

<g data-gr-id="20">Bhel</g> on Friday said that it has commissioned the second 500 <g data-gr-id="21">mw</g> unit at Tuticorin Thermal Power Station (TPS) in Tamil Nadu. "Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (<g data-gr-id="22">Bhel</g>) has successfully commissioned the second 500 <g data-gr-id="23">mw</g> unit at Tuticorin Thermal Power Station (TPS)," the company said in a press release.

The first 500 <g data-gr-id="27">mw</g> unit of the project was commissioned on March 10. Tuticorin TPS has been set up by NLC Tamil Nadu Power Limited (NTPL), a joint venture of Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) and Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO). The project is situated near the Thoothukudi (Tuticorin) port on the shore of the Bay of Bengal. Earlier stages of Tuticorin TPS comprise five units of 210 <g data-gr-id="28">mw</g>, all installed by <g data-gr-id="29">Bhel</g> in three phases between 1979 and 1992. 

Recently, <g data-gr-id="30">Bhel</g> had commissioned second unit of NLC’s 250 <g data-gr-id="31">mw</g> circulating fluidised bed combustion (CFBC) based power plant at Neyveli. The other project being executed by Bhel for NLC is the prestigious, 2x500 <g data-gr-id="32">mw</g> pulverised <g data-gr-id="33">lignite fired</g> thermal power plant, also coming up at Neyveli, which is the highest rating set of its kind in the country.

<g data-gr-id="16">Bhel</g> commissioned 8,230 <g data-gr-id="17">mw</g> in the power sector utility segment in the country during the financial year 2014-15, surpassing government's capacity addition target of 6,914 <g data-gr-id="18">mw</g> set for Bhel, by 19 per cent. In all, Bhel commissioned/synchronised 11,941 <g data-gr-id="19">mw</g> in domestic and international markets during 2014-15.