BHEL has secured an order to set up a 25 MW floating SPV power plant on EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) basis, at Simhadri in Andhra Pradesh.

This is NTPC’s second order of floating SPV plant from BHEL, the first being a 100 MW floating SPV plant at Ramagundam in Telangana.

With this order, BHEL has emerged as the largest EPC player in the floating solar PV segment in India, with a portfolio of 130 MW. The engineering firm is offering EPC solutions for both off-grid and grid-interactive ground mounted, rooftop, floating solar and canal top solar plants, with a current portfolio of more than 1 GW of SPV plants.