NTPC Invites Bids for Solar in Madhya Pradesh

NTPC's subsidiary NTPC Renewable Energy is soliciting offers for a 630 MW (2x 315 MW) grid-connected solar power plant at Barethi, Madhya Pradesh. Bids are due December 29, 2023.

The selected bidder will manage operations and maintenance for three years. Bidders must have completed 40 MW or more solar projects. One project must be 10 MW or greater.

Bid security is required with each submission. Bid security is Rs 200 million (2.4 million) for one block (325MW) and Rs 500 million (6 million) for two blocks (2x325 MW).

The project includes designing, engineering, manufacture, supply, packing and forwarding, transportation, unloading storage, installation, testing, and commissioning grid-connected ground-mounted solar photovoltaic plants. This covers open-category PV modules.

The developer will also oversee project operations and maintenance for three years. Bidders should be experienced developers or have designed, supplied, erected, and commissioned 40 MW or more solar projects. Bidders must also have completed a 10 MW or larger project that was operational for at least six months before the bid opening date.

EPC contractors or developers that completed an industrial project in electricity, steel, oil, gas, petrochemical, fertiliser, cement, coal mining, or any other process industry within the past decade can also qualify. The stated project must have been operational for at least one year for non-renewable energy projects and six months for solar/wind projects before the bid opening date.

Bidders must also have experience building at least one 33 kV electrical substation with circuit breakers and power transformers. Before the bid opening date, non-renewable energy sector substations must have been operational for at least one year or solar/wind substations for six months. In related news, NTPC Renewable Energy has solicited EPC proposals for 650 MW of grid-connected solar projects in Bikaner, Rajasthan.

Shajapur will be Madhya Pradesh's largest solar park with 1.5 GW of installed capacity. Sanchi will become the world's first net zero city, the state government said in March 2023.

News by Rahul Yelligetti