Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited announced that it has won a contract for setting up a combined cycle power plant, or CCPP, on an engineering, procurement and construction, or, EPC, basis, involving supply and commissioning of a fuel-efficient gas turbine, in Karnataka. Valued at INR 12.02 billion, the order for the 370 MW Gas Turbine-based CCPP to be installed at Yelahanka on the outskirts of Bengaluru city, has been placed on BHEL by Karanataka Power Corporation Limited (KPCL). BHEL's scope of work in the project includes design, engineering, manufacture, supply, construction, erection, testing & commissioning of the EPC Package comprising an advanced-class Gas Turbine-based combined cycle power plant.

The key equipment for the contract will be manufactured at BHEL's Hyderabad, Trichy, Haridwar, Bhopal and Jhansi plants, while the company's Power Sector - Southern Region shall execute the civil works and erection & commissioning of the equipment.