Amid a raging debate over the quality of power equipment from BHEL and Chinese companies, the government on Thursday said Chinese gears are of lesser efficiency compared to those supplied by the PSU.
"In fact, Chinese supplied equipment have inferior heat rates (efficiencies) and the auxiliaries consume more power than that of BHEL. Secondary fuel oil consumption is also more."He was responding to a question on whether power plants running on Chinese gear have shown better performance than those using BHEL equipment."The time taken for synchronisation to commercial operation is much more than BHEL equipment," Patel said.
"Power plants set up with Chinese equipment have not shown better performance than those using equipment supplied by Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL)," Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Praful Patel said in a written reply to Lok Sabha.
PLF is an indicator of generation efficiency. Operational Availability of Chinese units has also been low as compared to BHEL units, he noted.According to him, the average Plant Load Factor (PLF) for the last three years of Chinese units is as low as 68 per cent as compared to BHEL's 79 per cent.In recent times, many private players such as Reliance Power have ordered Chinese equipment for their projects, including Ultra Mega Power Projects (UMPPs).The debate over BHEL and Chinese sets comes at a time when the Indian power sector is projected to see an ambitious capacity addition of over 80,000 MW in the 12th five-year plan (2012-17).State-owned BHEL synchronised 9,442 MW of generating equipment last fiscal.
"These facts have been substantiated in the report of visit of CEA/NTPC team to China in March 2009, independent reports by JM Financials and CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets as well as records available with CEA," Patel pointed out.
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