With the revised letter of intent now in hand, Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd has commenced worked on building the 4,000-mw Yadadri supercritical thermal power plant for state utility Telangana State Power Generation Corporation Ltd (TSGENCO). The project is coming up at Damaracherla in Nalgonda district of Telangana.
The EPC order, which includes five sets (boilers and turbine-generators) of 800-mw power units, is valued at Rs.20,400 crore. This is believed to be the single-largest order in the history of India’s power sector.
The revised letter of intent, it is believed, was necessitated due to a fresh clearance from the ministry of environment, forests and climate change. The project will take shape on 2,800 acres of land out of which nearly 2,100 acres is forest land falling under the Veerlapalem forest block, it is learnt. BHEL had to seek fresh forest clearance as the original environmental impact assessment (EIA) report had inadequacies. BHEL subsequently appointed a new consultant and had the EIA prepared afresh.
The Yadadri power plant will run on both domestic and imported coal. While the domestic coal will be supplied by Singareni Coal Collieries Ltd, the imports component will be contracted from Indonesia, Australia and South Africa.
Performance in FY17
In FY17, BHEL commissioned 8,570 mw of power generation equipment that included three supercritical sets of 660 mw and one of 800 mw. In the XII Plan period (April 2012 to March 2017), BHEL commissioned a total of 45,274 mw that surpassed the government-set target by 9 per cent.
Supercritical orders
BHEL has so far received orders for 48 supercritical steam generators (boilers) and 41 supercritical turbine-generators. Out of these, 15 supercritical boilers and 13 supercritical turbine-generators have already been commissioned.
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