Team Blitz India
NEW DELHI: Public sector engineering giant Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) on March 19 announced that it had won an order for setting up 1,600 MW Singrauli Supercritical Thermal Power Plant (STPP) Stage-III from NTPC through the global competitive bidding route.
The plant, comprising 2×800 MW units, will be set up adjacent to the existing 2,000 MW thermal power station at Singrauli in Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh, according to a BHEL statement.
Set up by BHEL in 1982, Singrauli plant was NTPC’s first power plant in the state. The machines installed earlier by BHEL at Singrauli have been performing exceedingly well since commissioning, it said.
The project for setting up the new plant will be implemented on an Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC) basis.
