BHEL commissions 800 MW Wanakbori Unit 8 in Gujarat

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has successfully commissioned 1x800 MW Wanakbori Unit 8 Expansion Project in Gujarat. Located in Kheda district of Gujarat, the project is owned by Gujarat State Electricity Corporation Limited (GSECL), a state-owned power generation company.

BHEL has been a major partner in the development of Gujarat's power sector with BHEL-supplied sets contributing over 86 per cent to the installed capacity of GSECL.

Notably, this 800 MW set is the highest rating set of GSECL. Previously, BHEL has set up seven units of 210 MW at Wanakbori, the oldest of which has been in operation for more than 35 years.

BHEL has executed the order for setting up the 800 MW coal-based power plant on Engineering, Procurement, Construction (EPC) basis and its scope of work in the project envisaged design, engineering, manufacture, supply, erection and commissioning of the steam turbine-generator, boiler, associated auxiliaries and electricals, state-of-the-art Controls & Instrumentation (C&I) and Electrostatic Precipitators (ESPs), besides other equipment of the EPC package.

The key equipment for the project has been manufactured at BHEL's Haridwar, Trichy, Hyderabad, Ranipet, Bhopal, Bengaluru, Thirumayam and Jhansi plants, while the construction of the plant has been undertaken by the company's Power Sector - Western Region, Nagpur.

BHEL is India's largest manufacturer of power generation equipment with an installed base of over 1,85,000 MW of power plant equipment globally. BHEL has contracted 58 sets of supercritical boilers and 53 sets of supercritical turbine generators ordered on it by various customers, in domestic as well as overseas markets.

The company has secured an order inflow of Rs. 15,490 crores in power sector, including the highest ever ordering levels of Rs. 3,851 crores from spares and services and R&M business segment. With the commissioning of this unit, positive impact on the order flow might be seen.

On Tuesday, stock of BHEL opened at Rs. 55.50. In the early morning session, it sustained the level but later dipped by 3.3 per cent to Rs. 52.65 from previous close of Rs. 54.45.