NTPC Green Energy Limited, on behalf of Indian Oil NTPC Green Energy Limited (INGEL), has issued request for proposals for the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) of inter-state transmission system connected solar projects of 200 MW capacity.
According to the tender guidelines, the scope of work under the project includes the operation and maintenance of entire solar projects, covering the switchyard and power evacuation system up to the interconnected grid substation. Additionally, it includes the provision of consumables and spare parts for a period of three years from the date of commissioning. The EPC contractor is also required to identify, obtain, and transfer the ownership or lease of the land in favor of INGEL. The bid submission deadline is February 22, 2024.
To be eligible, the potential bidders should have experience in developing, designing, constructing, commissioning, or overseeing these activities for a grid-connected solar power project with a combined capacity of 40 MW or more. Additionally, at least one of these projects should have had a capacity of 10 MW or higher, and the reference project must have been operational for a minimum of six months before the bid opening date. Alternatively, bidders must have successfully undertaken an industrial project in sectors such as power, steel, oil and gas, petrochemical, fertiliser, cement, coal mining, coal handling plant, or any other process industry, with a minimum cost of Rs 2.4 billion. The bidders are also required to have completed a minimum of one electrical substation with a voltage of 33 kV or higher, either as a developer or an EPC contractor, and this substation should have been operational for at least the past year.
In January 2024, NTPC Limited on behalf of NTPC-SAIL Power Company issued a tender to set up a 15 MW floating solar project at Maroda reservoir-1 of NSPCL in Bhilai, Chattisgarh.
