BHEL Next Move

 

The country's largest power generation equipment manufacturer Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. has been in focus on their plans to pushing government’s ‘Make in India’ initiative. The company has plans to seek global partners who wish to manufacture in India and could emerge as an engineering R&D services provider, a contract manufacturer, or a lessor of urban-area industrial land.

 

BHEL said they will diversify beyond power and thermal sectors. “We will grow from a power Sector Company to a global engineering organization. The company can look to diversify into sectors like Railways, Defence, Aerospace and Oil & Gas.

 

BHEL has won a prestigious order for the supply of state-of-the-art Electric Buses along with charging infrastructure of these buses for Gorakhpur City. The order has been placed on BHEL by the Urban Transport Directorate (UTD), Lucknow. These low floor, disabled-friendly Electric Buses will be deployed by UTD at the Gorakhpur airport. This is in line with the company’s transformation initiative of expanding into new markets/businesses. Further, as part of the transformation journey, BHEL is consolidating and reinvigorating the initiatives taken in Defence & Aerospace, Water, E-mobility, Batteries, Renewables and Transportation businesses.

 

Amidst stiff competitive bidding, BHEL has won its first commercial order for state-of-the-art Battery Energy Storage Systems from The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI). The company has signed a contract agreement with TERI for setting up of a cumulative 410 kWh Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) in the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi. The tender was issued by TERI on turnkey basis under UI-ASSIST (US-India Collaborative for Smart Distribution System with Storage) initiative with BSES Rajdhani Power Limited (BRPL).

BHEL’s scope of work in the contract includes design, supply, testing, installation & commissioning along with a comprehensive five-year AMC of the systems at three different locations. The project will be executed by BHEL’s Electronics Division, Bengaluru. BHEL has a focused approach in the emerging field of BESS and has already commissioned a 1 MWh BESS at its Corporate R&D Centre located in Hyderabad. The state-of-the-art system is commissioned with three different battery technologies viz. Lithium-Ion, Advance Lead-Carbon and Flow batteries.

BHEL has embarked upon a transformation journey and is actively pursuing diversification of its portfolio in non-coal segments viz. Energy Storage, E-Mobility, Oil & Gas, Transportation, Defence and Aerospace, etc. With its vast experience of more than five decades of indigenized manufacturing, BHEL is geared to provide tailor-made solutions for Battery Energy Storage Systems to meet different kinds of customer requirements.

 

BHEL, the country’s largest and oldest capital goods manufacturing company has successfully manufactured and tested (short circuit) India’s highest rating Auto Transformer at the National High Power Test Laboratory (NHPTL) at Bina in Madhya Pradesh. Significantly, this is a new benchmark in the global transformer industry. Short circuit test is the most stringent, special type test for power transformers which is conducted to prove the adequacy for power transformers to withstand abnormal conditions of a short circuit to ensure reliability during their operations in the field.

Incidentally, this is BHEL’s 21st 400 kV class transformer, which has successfully passed the short circuit test, indicating the company’s prowess in the sector. This 500 MVA 400/220/33 kV Autotransformer has been designed and manufactured at BHEL’s Bhopal plant for UP Power Transmission Corporation Limited. These high rating transformers play a crucial role in bulk power transmission to load centres and bigger cities.

 

BHEL is the largest manufacturer of power transformers in India and a pioneer in the indigenous development of higher rating and specialized transformers, with voltage levels going up to 1200 kV class. BHEL’s Transformer Plant at Bhopal has a world-class, state-of-the-art facility, which is at par with its global peers and is fully equipped to meet the expectations of utilities in India as well as abroad in the entire range of Power Transformers and Shunt Reactors.

 

In line with its objective of achieving excellence in project execution, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited has implemented an innovative boiler cleaning process for coal-fired thermal units, at NTPC’s 3x660 MW North Karanpura Super Thermal Power Project, being executed by BHEL on EPC basis. The boiler commissioning cycle will reduce from 100 days to 80 days by successfully completing the main ‘Boiler Acid cleaning’ without its light-up, by using an Auxiliary Boiler. This innovative method is a major change in the commissioning process followed so far and will aid in early synchronization of the unit.

 

BHEL has a proven track record in the supercritical segment and has successfully commissioned 23 boiler packages and 19 turbine packages in the ratings of 660 MW, 700 MW and 800 MW. BHEL has so far contracted 58 boilers and 53 turbine packages of supercritical sets including many on EPC mode, which is the most by any single domestic power plant equipment manufacturer.

 

BHEL is trading at a price of INR 35.85 on 12.11.2020. 

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