Bhel starts 2,730-mw power projects in 1st half of FY16

State-owned Bharat Heavy Electricals (Bhel) on Monday said it has commissioned 2,730 <g data-gr-id="25">mw</g> of utility power projects in the first six months of 2015-16. “Bhel has once again demonstrated its project execution prowess with the commissioning of 2,730 <g data-gr-id="26">mw</g> of utility power projects in the first half of the current financial year (2015-16)... It is also more than double the power project commissioning achievement of 1,167 <g data-gr-id="27">mw</g> in the corresponding period of last year,” the company said. 

The company further said power generation has also commenced from the <g data-gr-id="28">Bhel</g>-supplied 660-mw unit at Lalitpur thermal power station (TPS) in Uttar Pradesh. Significantly, the 11 utility sets commissioned by <g data-gr-id="29">Bhel</g> have been with projects across the country. Projects in the North include two units each of 200 <g data-gr-id="30">mw</g> at Koldam <g data-gr-id="32">hydro electric</g> project (HEP) in Himachal Pradesh and four units each of 82.5 <g data-gr-id="31">mw</g> at Shrinagar HEP in Uttarakhand, it said. 

Also, two thermal sets of 500 <g data-gr-id="33">mw</g> each -- one at Anpara in Uttar Pradesh and another at Vindhyachal in Madhya Pradesh -- have been commissioned during the year.

The 660-mw Lalitpur unit was synchronised 3 months ahead of schedule. Notably, this is the first supercritical set to be commissioned in Uttar Pradesh. Bhel has started the 250-mw Bongaigaon Unit-1 in Assam. It also commissioned the 500-mw Tuticorin-2 in Tamil Nadu and the 250 <g data-gr-id="18">mw</g> Unit-4 at Sikka TPS in Gujarat. The hydro sets commissioned by <g data-gr-id="19">Bhel</g> in the first <g data-gr-id="21">two quarters</g> total 730 <g data-gr-id="20">mw</g>, which is nearly the same as the total hydro capacity added in the country during 2014-15.