28-05-08 India's state-run Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (BHEL) has won a contract to set up a 153-MW captive power plant in the city of Bhatinda in Punjab state. HMEL, a joint venture of HPCL and Mittal Energy, had placed the order on BHEL.
"Under international competitive bidding, the company won the contract to set up environment-friendly 153-MW captive power plant at the upcoming Guru Gobind Singh Refinery at Bhatinda," the company said.

The company said it would do designing, engineering, manufacturing, supply, erection and commissioning work of the captive power plant in addition to complete civil works.
The 153-MW gas turbine-based combined cycle power plant to be commissioned in a period of 30 months would meet the power and process steam requirement of the upcoming refinery.

The equipment for the project will be supplied by BHEL's plants in Tiruchi, Ranipet, Bhopal, Jhansi and the Electronics Division in Bangalore. The civil works, erection and commissioning of the plant will be carried out by BHEL's Power Sector-Northern Region, the company said.
BHEL so far has supplied and commissioned more than 700 steam turbine and gas turbine-based plants for industries such as metal, paper, sugar, cement and process industries like refineries, petrochemicals, fertilizer in both the domestic and overseas markets.