Today, when the BHEl Bhopal is celebrating its Diamond Jubilee, appreciation received from one of our esteemed customer M/s GETCO, wherein one of our transformer 40 MVA, 132 / 66 kV Auto Transformer commissioned on 10/07/1965 at Vadodara substation has completed 51 years of operation successfully.
This symbolized the BHEl strength of engineering and manufacturing and commitment to quality of equipment’s manufactured at BHEl Bhopal.
BHEl is the first Indian company to design, manufacture and test 1200 kV Transformer. The Transformer is successfully synchronized with Grid at National Test lab Bina. BHEl has been the leader in the evolution of EHV technology in India with number of firsts to its credit, starting from the development of 66 kV transformers to 400 kV transformers, reactors and bushing and now to Controlled Shunt Reactors, Phase Shifting Transformer, 765kV Transformers and Reactors and 1200 kV Transformers.
Notably, BHEl, Bhopal is celebrating Diamond Jubilee on successful completion of 60 years of its establishment. The mother plant of BHEl, then HE (I) l (Heavy Electricals (India) limited), started its operations in 1960. The first product manufactured and supplied by BHEl Bhopal was 1 MVA, 33 kV Transformer to Madhya Pradesh Electricity Board in 1961. The first EHV class 400 kV transformer of 240 MVA rating was manufactured by BHEl Bhopal in 1976.
Since then BHEl has kept the pace with the development and adoption of new technologies and requirements in transmission and generation system for higher KV class and MVA Ratings.