BHEL wins Rs144-crore PowerGrid project in Maharashtra

27 February 2007

BHEL bagged the World Bank-funded turnkey contract outbidding European MNCs and Indian companies.

The projects involve the setting up a new 400 kV substation at Wardha and extensions of 400 kV substations at Seoni, Akola Aurangabad, associated with the Sipat super thermal power project stage-II supplementary transmission system.

BHEL`s scope of work in the contract envisages design, engineering, manufacture, testing, supply, erection and commissioning of auto transformers, shunt reactors, circuit breakers, 400 kV and 220 kV instrument transformers, control and relay panels, string insulators and other associated auxiliaries, in addition to complete civil works.

The project would be commissioned by BHEL in a schedule of 19 months, BHEL said in a statement.

BHEL had earlier set up 400 kV substations at Gazuwaka, Kanpur, Allahabad, Trivandrum and Siliguri, besides undertaking extensions of existing 400 kV substations at Jamshedpur, Rourkela, Farakka, Malda, Jeypore, Vijaywada, Madurai and Sriperumbdur for PowerGrid.