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 CMD B P Rao told PTI.
He, however, refused to name the private power players which have placed orders with BHEL after scrapping contracts with the Chinese vendors saying as per corporate agreement "we cannot disclose the names."
Chinese companies have often drawn flak for cheap quality equipment due to which various projects have suffered.
Asked what triggered this change, Rao said, "Performance of our equipments made the change," helping BHEL receive orders worth 11,000 MW from April to December, 2009.
Some of the power projects included in 11,000 MW are two orders of Rs 640 crore (Rs 6.4 billion) each from Adhunik Power and Natural Resources for supplying equipment for the company's thermal power project in Jharkhand during the previous calender year.
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