Power Sector Trusts BHEL

In what could be seen as a testimony of the quality of its work, a staggering 94 per cent of the orders received by state-run power equipment manufacturer BHEL last year came from the private sector.

The private power generation companies, which till recently patronised Chinese equipment makers, have come back to BHEL only due to its quality and performance parameters offered by the public sector undertaking (PSU).

BHEL received equipment orders worth 11,700 MW in 2009.
"Private power companies which earlier gave the contracts to the Chinese firms are coming back to us... In fact, some of them have scrapped their contracts with the Chinese vendors and are approaching us for supply of equipments," BHEL Chairman and Managing Director B P Rao said here today.