Bharat Heavy Electricals

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Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited
Type Public
Founded 1962
Headquarters New Delhi
Industry Electrical power industry
Revenue Rs 103.3 billion (2005)
Employees 43,302
Website www.bhel.com

BHEL or Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited is a Gas and Steam turbine manufacturer in India. It is one of the nine large Public Sector Undertakings known as navratnas or 'nine jewels'. Some of its manufacturing units are located in Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), Haridwar (UttarKhand), Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh), Trichi and Ranipet (Tamil Nadu). BHEL is a key player in power sector through erection, commissioning and servicing of power plants all over the world.

BHEL is an engineering conglomerate, offering a wide spectrum of products and services for core sectors like Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution, Industry, Transportation, Oil & Gas, etc. besides supply of Non Conventional Energy Systems. Over 65 % power generated in India is through the use of BHEL supplied equipment.

The current chairman(as on Feb 2007)of BHEL is Mr. A.K. Puri.


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