The Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) has commissioned second unit (800 MW) of the two x 800 MW Gadarwara Super Thermal Power Project Stage-l. Located at Gadarwara in Narsinghpur district of Madhya Pradesh, the greenfield project is being developed by NTPC. 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 eight sets of c and six sets of supercritical turbine generators have been commissioned for NTPC.
BHEL’s scope of work in the project envisages design, engineering, manufacture, supply and erection and commissioning of steam turbines, generators, boilers and associated auxiliaries, besides state-of-the-art controls & instrumentation (C&l) 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 construction of the plant was undertaken by the company’s Power Sector-Northern Region, Noida. The company has so far contracted 58 sets of supercritical boilers and 53 sets of supercritical turbine generators from various customers in domestic as well as overseas markets.