BHEL bags hydroelectric project in Nepal
Published: Feb 03, 2020
By TIOLCorplaws News Service
NEW DELHI, FEB 03, 2020: IN face of stiff competition, the BHEL has won an order for the Electro-Mechnical (EM) works for the 40MW Rahughat Hydroelectric Project in Nepal. Such order has been on BHEL by the Raghuganga Hydropower Limited (RGHPL), a company 100% owned by Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) the sole public power utility in Nepal and owned by the Government of Nepal. The project is majority funded by EXIM Bank of India in the form of a soft loan, along with funding from NEA and the Govt. of Nepal. WAPCOS, India is the project consultant.
The order for Rahughat HEP, located in the Raghuganga municipality of Myagdi district of Nepal, envisages design, engineering, manufacturing, supply, erection and commissioning of the complete electro-mechanical package involving supply of two Vertical Pelton Turbines (20 MW each) along with associated equipment, matching generators, governors, controls & instrumentation, protection system, transformers, 220 KV switchyard and balance of plant (BoP) packages. Major equipment for the contract would be manufactured and supplied by BHEL's plants at Bhopal, Jhansi, Rudrapur and Bengaluru, while the installation activities on-site would be carried out by the company's Power Sector - Northern Region division, Noida.
This is the second consecutive success for BHEL in the hydro power sector of Nepal. Last year, BHEL had won a prestigious order for the largest Hydropower project in Nepal - 900 MW Arun-3 HEP, which is presently under construction. The BHEL has been contributing to Nepal's hydro sector with the commissioning of 2x30 MW hydro generating sets at Kulekhani-I HEP in 1980, followed by the 3x5 MW Devighat Hydro Power Project in 1983, which was successfully renovated, modernized and uprated by BHEL in 2011.
The BHEL's portfolio of over 500 hydroelectric generating sets with a cumulative capacity of more than 30,000 MW across the world, is a testament to BHEL's dominance in the hydro sector.
