Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd has commissioned a 250-mw unit at Harduaganj Thermal Power Station (TPS), in Uttar Pradesh. State power utility Uttar Pradesh Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd had placed the order for supplying two units on BHEL. The first unit was commissioned in September 2011. The new unit will generate 6 million kwh per day, to be fed to the state grid.

For the same utility, BHEL is currently executing contracts for a 250-mw unit at Parichha and two units of 500-mw each at Anpara thermal power station.

BHEL's scope of work in the Harduaganj contract envisaged manufacture, supply, erection, testing and commissioning of the main plant package along with associated auxiliaries and civil works for the main plant package for this power project.

The equipment for the project was supplied by BHEL's Haridwar, Trichy, Ranipet, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Bhopal and Jhansi plants, while BHEL's Power Sector - Northern Region is undertaking erection and commissioning of the equipment, a BHEL release noted.

BHEL currently has capacity to manufacture 20,000 mw of power equipment annually.