OREANDA-NEWS. Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has successfully commissioned a 195 MW thermal unit in Bihar. This is the first 195 MW unit to be commissioned by BHEL at the 2x195 MW Muzaffarpur Thermal Power Station (TPS) Plant of Kanti Bijlee Utpadan Nigam Limited (KBUNL), a joint venture of NTPC Ltd. and BSPGCL, in Bihar.

BHEL is the leading supplier of main plant equipment to NTPC and its joint ventures, with a 72% share in their installed capacity. BHEL's scope of work in the Muzaffarpur project envisaged design, engineering, manufacture, supply, erection and commissioning of Steam Turbines, Generators and Boilers, along with associated Auxiliaries and Electricals, besides state-of-the-art Controls & Instrumentation (C&I) and Electrostatic Precipitators (ESPs).

The second 195 MW unit is expected to be commissioned in FY 2015-16. Earlier, in the first week of March, 2015, a 660 MW supercritical thermal unit was commissioned by BHEL at Barh in Bihar. As per a recent Central Electricity Authority (CEA) study on the performance of sub-critical sets in the country, BHEL supplied sets have demonstrated a better operating Heat rate resulting in less coal consumption per unit of power produced.