BHEL BAGS RS 1360 CR CONTRACT FOR 1600 MW HVDC LINK

Raipur . Public sector Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) in partnership with ABB has bagged a Rs 1,360 crore contract from Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL) for setting up the 1,600 MW 'High Voltage Direct Current' (HVDC) link between the western region grid from Raigarh in Chhattigarh to Puglur in Tamil Nadu in the southern region grid. 
 
BHEL had been associated with the HVDC projects in India since its inception. For this project, among other equipment and systems, BHEL will significantly contribute by supplying convertor transformers, shunt reactors, filter bank capacitors and instrument transformers from its Bhopal plant and Thyristor vavles from its Electronics division in Bengaluru. Dailypioneer

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