India’s Bharat Heavy Electricals is boosting its industrial capabilities through extensive modernisation, capacity expansion, and diversification into nuclear, defence, and renewable energy sectors, supported by significant investments and a robust order book.
Bharat Heavy Electricals is pressing ahead with a broad upgrade of its factories and engineering capabilities as India’s state-owned engineering heavyweight seeks to strengthen its role in the country’s power and industrial supply chains. According to the government’s reply in Parliament, the company is modernising equipment, improving technology and adding capacity in line with business demand and new market opportunities, with the aim of remaining competitive as energy demand shifts towards thermal, nuclear, renewable and green technologies.
The Press Information Bureau said BHEL spent Rs. 671 crore in FY 2025-26 on expansion, modernisation and capacity additions across its facilities. It has also established advanced testing facilities in Hyderabad and Bhopal under the Ministry of Heavy Industry’s scheme to improve the competitiveness of Indian capital goods, while six Common Engineering Facility Centres for advanced welding skills have trained more than 10,000 welders.
BHEL’s own disclosures suggest the modernisation drive is taking place alongside a stronger commercial performance. The company said it posted turnover of about Rs. 32,350 crore in FY 2025-26, up 18% from a year earlier, with order inflows of roughly Rs. 75,000 crore and an outstanding order book of about Rs. 2.4 lakh crore at year-end. It also said it commissioned or synchronised around 8.9 GW of power capacity during the year, underscoring the scale of its execution pipeline.
The Trichy unit remains a focal point of the expansion effort. The government said BHEL spent about Rs. 70 crore there across FY 2024-25 and FY 2025-26 to lift production capacity, while the plant’s order book stood at Rs. 43,927 crore as of June 30, 2026. Over the past two years, the unit has hired more than 100 employees across different roles. BHEL has also been widening its business beyond conventional power, including into nuclear power, defence and aerospace, and renewable energy, with supplies so far for 5.4 GW of nuclear capacity and regular deliveries of naval guns to the Indian Navy.
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