Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited commissions 600 MW thermal power plant in Kadapa

Delhi: Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) successfully commissioned its 600-MW coal-based thermal power plant in Andhra Pradesh on March 14. The unit has been commissioned at the APGENCO’s Rayalaseema Thermal Power Project in Kadapa.

At present, BHEL is setting up two supercritical units of 800 MW rating in Andhra Pradesh, one each at Vijayawada and Krishnapatnam. Significantly, 600 MW sets are in-house engineered, higher rating units based on BHEL’s highly successful 500 MW rating units, which form the backbone of the Indian power sector. So far, BHEL has successfully commissioned 18 sets of 600 MW rating in the country.