Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has won an order for setting up a 660 MW coal-based thermal power project with supercritical parameters in Maharashtra.

Valued at over INR 28000 million, the project will be set up as an expansion project (Unit 6) of Maharashtra State Power Generation Company (MAHAGENCO)'s Bhusawal Thermal Power Station (TPS) in Jalgaon district of Maharashtra.

BHEL's scope of work for this brownfield expansion project includes design, engineering, manufacture, supply, construction, erection, testing and commissioning of 1x660 MW supercritical thermal set and civil works.

The 1,420 MW Bhusawal TPS is presently equipped with 2 sets each of 210 MW and 500 MW ratings. Notably, all these sets have been supplied and commissioned by BHEL. Reposing its confidence in BHEL's technological and project execution capabilities, MAHAGENCO has entrusted BHEL with the contract for setting up the first supercritical set at Bhusawal TPS.

The key equipment for the contract will be manufactured at BHEL's Trichy, Haridwar, Bhopal, Ranipet, Hyderabad, Jhansi, Thirumayam and Bengaluru plants while the company's Power Sector — Western Region shall be responsible for civil works and erection and commissioning of the equipment.