Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) has reported the winning of an order valued at Rs.10,800 crore from Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL).
In a brief stock exchange filing, BHEL said that this order is its largest ever. The order relates to EPC of turbine island for six units of 700-mw each.
These six units will be distributed over NPCIL’s upcoming projects. Four units are meant for the GHAVP project in Haryana while two are destined for the Kaiga project in Karnataka.
In July this year, BHEL had clinched an order worth Rs.1,405 crore to supply 12 steam generators to NPCIL. This order was won under NPCIL’s “Fleet Mode” procurement programme and mandates supply of 12 steam generators for India’s highest rated indigenously-developed 700 MWe Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors (PHWR) to be set up at four different locations in the country.
The current order for six turbine islands is also on the same lines. In July itself, BHEL had announced that it had emerged as the L1 bidder in a Rs.10,800 crore tender of NPCIL for 6×700 MWe turbine island packages, which is the current order in discussion.
This turbine island package order is understood to be the third major supply order secured by BHEL through competitive bidding for the Fleet Mode implementation programme of 10×700 MWe nuclear projects by NPCIL. The first equipment order secured by BHEL under this programme, for the supply of 32 reactor header assemblies, is currently under execution.
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L&T also a supplier
Larsen & Toubro is also a supplier of key equipment to NPCIL’s upcoming nuclear power generation stations based on 700 MWe PHWRs. In April 2021, L&T said that it had won the mandate to supply 12 steam generators to be used across three units of 700MWe-rated PHWRs. L&T is also supplying end-shields for such PHWRs to NPCIL.
Fleet mode procurement
Under its fleet mode procurement programme, NPCIL is sourcing key equipment – steam generators, turbine islands, etc – for 10 PHWRs of 700 MWe rating. These will be used across various projects like GHVAP, Kaiga, etc.
GHAVP (Gorakhpur Haryana Anu Vidyut Pariyojana) is an upcoming nuclear power plant to be equipped with four units of 700-mw PHWRs. The project is taking shape on 550 ha of land at Gorakhpur, in Faridabad district of Haryana.
(Featured photograph is a schematic representation of the turbine island of a typical nuclear power plants. Source of photograph unknown.)
