As part of its manufacturing capacity expansion to 15,000 MW per annum, Bharat Heavy Electricals has set up a new state of the art ultra high voltage transformer manufacturing facility at Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh.

BHEL has been committed to the nation’s power development program and has reaffirmed its commitment to the Indian power sector by equipping itself for the future, by way of technology, facilities and trained manpower to meet the country’s power forecast for the 11th plan and beyond. For this, it has already enhanced its manufacturing capacity to 10,000 MW per annum and is further augmenting it to 15,000 MW per annum which is proceeding apace and plans are afoot to hike it further to 20,000 MW by 2011-12.

The new UHV transformer block is another feather in BHEL’s cap and boasts of state of the art technology with the most modern and sophisticated equipment/machines, comparable with the best in the world. This new facility will enable BHEL to produce an additional 12,000 MVA of transformers per annum.

With this, the total installed transformer manufacturing capacity at BHEL’s Bhopal plant will go up to 30,000 MVA per annum while the total capacity of BHEL including its Jhansi plant will go up to a phenomenal 45,000 MVA. The UHV transformer block will enable BHEL to fulfil its commitment of making the country self reliant in power transmission through significant contribution towards UHV technology in particular.