Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd has received a Rs.630-crore order from Abhijeet Group for setting up a power project in Andhra Pradesh. Placed by Abhijeet Projects Ltd, the contract relates to a 300-mw coal-fired power plant at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh.

This is the first order bagged by BHEL for its new-rating 300-mw thermal set where it has to design, engineer, manufacture, supply, erect, test and commission boilers, steam turbines and turbo-generators along with state-of-the-art controls and instrumentation (C&I) and other associated auxiliaries.

Repeat order: BHEL is already in the midst of executing a contract for supply and installation of the main plant package for Abhijeet Group's 1,080-mw Matrishri Usha Jayaswal mega power plant in Jharkhand. The order relates to two phases, each of 2x270-mw.