Order book of BHEL crosses ₹1.80 lakh crore

BHEL secures big orders for high pressure boilers, boosting order book to ₹1.80 lakh crore, ensuring timely delivery.

Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (BHEL), a premier Central Public Sector Enterprises, has geared up to meet its commitment on delivering high pressure boilers to various State-owned power corporations and private entities for their thermal power plants.

According to sources, BHEL, which was struggling with dwindling orders for a few years until recently due to various factors, has made a significant turnaround in terms of securing some big ticket orders from various domestic companies for producing boilers to erect thermal power plants in recent months.

As on December 31, 2024, BHEL reported a total order book worth ₹1,60,157 crore. Of it, the power segment alone constituted ₹1.21,413 crore, which is 76% of the total order book. The industry segment constituted ₹35,063 crore and the value of export order stood at ₹3,682 crore. The company has further received orders to the tune of over ₹20,000 crore during the last three months, thereby increasing the total order book value to ₹1.80 lakh crore.

It has 39 boilers in its order book so far. Of them, Adani Power stands first in placing the maximum number of boilers with an installed capacity of 800 MW producing thermal power plants. The private company has placed 14 boilers followed by National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) with 11 boilers. The State-owned companies from Chhattisgarh, Gujarat and Maharashtra have also placed orders for boilers. The number of boiler orders placed by Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) and Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) stands at three and four respectively. Of the 39 boilers, 31 were for 800 MW each and eight were for 660 MW each.

Buoyed by the pouring orders, the company has put in place the maximum utilisation of its installed capacity and all its resources to fulfil its order commitment to various companies within the stipulated time, says sources.

The volume of order, which is unprecedented in recent years, is said to have energised BHEL, which has a High Pressure Boiler Plant in Tiruchi and a Power Plant Piping Unit at Thirumayam in Tamil Nadu.

Sources added that a systematic plan had been put in place at the Tiruchi plant and BHEL’s other plants across the country to execute the orders. Going by the present orders and the upcoming big ticket orders, which were on the pipeline, BHEL had jobs for the next five to 10 years. While focusing on maximum utilisation of its installed capacity, the company had taken steps to make use of its ancillary units in Tiruchi and other parts of the country. It had already placed orders to its number of vendors to produce various components of boilers.