Bharat Heavy Electricals has bagged a contract for the supply and installation of the electrostatic precipitator package for NTPC's 2x660-mw Solapur super thermal power project in Maharashtra.

BHEL's scope of work in the contract involves design, engineering, manufacture, supply, erection and commissioning of the complete electrostatic precipitator package. According to a statement by BHEL, the ESP shall be manufactured at the company's Ranipet plant. BHEL's Power Sector - Western Region will be responsible for erection and commissioning of the ESP, the statement added.

Main plant package: It may be recalled that NTPC formalized orders for the main plant equipment of the Solapur project in April this year. The Rs.1,855-crore order for the boiler package (including a foreign exchange component of 109.79 million euros) has been placed on BGR Energy Systems Ltd. Alstom Bharat Forge Ltd, a joint venture between Alstom and Bharat Forge has won the mandate to supply the turbine-generator islands. The order for two TG sets of 660-mw is around Rs.1,570 crore.