80 per cent of thermal plant equipment in India are manufactured by BHEL
At a time when most of under construction power plants are running behind the schedule and the governments aim to scale the power generation capacity is turning into something difficult to achieve a silver line is emerging.
India's leading public sector engineering giant BHEL has contributed 79% of the country's total thermal power generation Power stations equipped with BHEL equipment win Maximum Productivity Awards.
Power generation in the country received a boost with BHEL-built thermal sets generating over 4% more power in fiscal 2008-09, compared to the previous fiscal.
During the year, these sets registered a record generation of 403.43 Billion Units of electricity against 387.71 Billion Units in the year before. Significantly, this constituted 79% of the total power generated in the country from coal-based thermal sets.
Consistently exceeding the national average efficiency parameters, in 2008-09 also, BHEL-manufactured thermal sets achieved the highest-ever Operating Availability (OA) of 88.2%, while the Plant Load Factor (PLF) at 80.1% was 3.1% higher than the national average.
BHEL-make 200-500 MW thermal sets, which form the backbone of the country's thermal generating capacity, operated at an all-time high OA of 91% and an impressive PLF of 84.3%. Notably, 77BHEL-make thermal sets of various ratings operated at a PLF of over 90% and 141 sets achieved an OA of more than 90%.
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