Aconsortium of Bharat Heavy Electricals and
France's Alstom has won a
1,600-crore ($360
million) order for supply of steam turbine
generators for the upcoming 2x700-mw Kakrapur nuclear
power station in Gujarat.
BHEL, which has a
880-crore share in the contract, has
secured an additional
40-crore order for supply of
instrumentation for the 1,400-mw nuclear power project
being set up by Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd.
For BHEL, this is the first-ever order for steam turbine
generators for new rating 700-mw nuclear sets pressurised
heavy water reactors, a statement by BHEL noted.
India currently operates 20 nuclear power plants and nearly
70 per cent of NPCIL's installed capacity of 4,780 mw in the
country comes from equipment manufactured and
commissioned by BHEL, the PSU engineering firm said in the
statement. The project will contribute to India's plans to
increase its nuclear capacity to 20 GW by 2020.