What is the full form of BHEL?

The full form of BHEL is Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited. BHEL is a manufacturing and engineering organization based in New Delhi, India that is established and controlled by the government of India. It was established in 1964 and is India’s oldest and largest producer of power plants.

BHEL is involved in engineering, manufacturing, construction, servicing and evaluation of various products from key economic sectors such as transportation like Railways, energy, water, oil and gas, defence and transmission in addition to power plant service.

A brief history of BHEL

• BHEL was established in the Indigenous Heavy Equipment Industry in India in 1964.
• In 1974 Heavy Electricals Limited merged with BHEL. BHEL was transformed into a limited public enterprise in 1991.
• Over time, it has built the capacity to manufacture a wide variety of electrical, electronic and mechanical equipment for all industries, like transmission, transportation, oil and gas and other sectors.
• Yet the majority of the company’s income is generated from the selling of power plants such as boilers, generators, etc.
• BHEL provided appliances as of 2017 produced around 55 per cent of India’s total built electricity generation capacity.
• The organization also offered thousands of electric locomotives and defence equipment to Indian Railways including the Super Rapid Gun Mount (SRGM) naval guns produced to the Indian Army in collaboration with the Indian Ordnance Factories and Defense Simulators.

List of BHEL Products

• EPC contracts
• Complete power stations
• HV/EHV Sub-stations
• Turnkey contracts for power plants
• O&M services for familiar technologies, etc.