GE Steam Power has inked a USD 165 million pact with BHEL to supply three nuclear steam turbines.
Under the contract GE Steam Power will supply three nuclear steam turbines out of six units for NPCIL's domestic nuclear program Phase-1 being developed at Gorakhpur, Haryana (Units - 1 to 4 (GHAVP)) and Kaiga (Kaiga – 5 and 6) in Karnataka.
The program includes 12 units of 700 MWe being developed by NPCIL with their own nuclear reactor technology i.e., Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors (PHWR).
In all, it will represent 8.4 GW of CO2-free electricity for the country, enough to power more than 14 million homes.
In 2018, GE Steam Power and BHEL had signed a business cooperation agreement and a License and Technology Transfer Agreement to enable them to manufacture nuclear steam turbines of 700 MW.
GE Steam Power will manufacture the nuclear steam turbines at its facility in Sanand, Gujarat.