Alstom has been awarded a contract by Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), to supply components and services for the 2x800 MW Gadarwara super thermal power plant at Gadarwara, Narsingpur, Madhya Pradesh, India. This contract is worth approximately €100 million.
Under the scope of the contract, Alstom will co-operate with BHEL in designing the boilers and supply pressure parts for the 800 MW supercritical boilers along with pulverisers and airpreheater components. It will also assist BHEL with technical advisors during the erection and commissioning of the two units. Key components will be manufactured from Alstom's facilities in Wellsville and Concordia in the USA as well as in Durgapur and Shahabad, India. Unit I is expected to be commissioned in 2016, with unit II in 2017.
The new Gadarwara contract is a confirmation of the strong co-operation established since 2005 with BHEL. It comes in addition to seven contracts signed with BHEL between 2008 to 2012 for supercritical boilers in Barh II, Krishnapatnam, Bara, Yeramarus, Bellary, Mouda and Nabinagar in India.
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