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Bharat Heavy Electricals limited (BHEl) has added another feather in its cap by successfully commissioning the 500 MW Kosti Thermal Power Station (TPS) in Sudan. Significantly, Kosti TPS (4x125 MW) is now Sudan’s largest power plant.

 BHEl has executed this project on engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) basis, having designed, manufactured, supplied and installed the complete power project (four units of 125 MW each) including associated civil works.

The project uses crude-oil from South Sudan as fuel, for which BHEl has designed special boilers. All the major equipment for the project like boilers, steam-turbines, generators, controls and instrumentation (C&I), transformers, et al. have been manufactured in-house. The company has also constructed a canal from the White Nile river to supply water for the project. The project is funded by Government of India’s line of Credit of USD 350 million.

Notably, Kosti TPS is BHEl’s largest oil-fired thermal power plant in the overseas market. It is also the company’s first crude-oil fired thermal power plant in Africa and comes close on the heels of the successful completion of the company’s 28 MW Nyaborango Hydro project in Rwanda which was recently inaugurated by the President of Rwanda. Also, BHEl has commissioned the 2x20 MW steam turbine and generators for cogeneration application at Tendaho sugar factory in Ethiopia.

BHEl is an integrated power plant equipment manufacturer with over 50 years of experience having installed over 153 GW globally. The company caters to core sectors of industry like power, transmission, industrial systems and products, transportation (railways), renewable energy, oil and gas, water and defense and produces power plants for all fuel types like coal, oil, gas, hydro, nuclear and solar with the entire range.

The company is presently executing several major projects outside India like 64 MW Grand Katende Hydro Project in DR Congo; 18 MW HFO fired power plant in Comoros; 8x183 MW Keban Hydro rehabilitation project in Turkey; 6x200 MW PHPA-I, 6x170 MW PHPA-II and 4x180 MW MHPA hydro projects in Bhutan.