NTPC REL Tenders Land and Power Evacuation Package for 230 MW Solar Project with BESS in Tamil Nadu
NTPC Renewable Energy (NTPC REL) has issued a tender for the land and power evacuation package for a 230 MW ISTS-connected solar PV project with battery storage near NTPC Green Energy’s 230 MW Ettayapuram Solar Project in Tamil Nadu.
April 08, 2025. By Mrinmoy Dey
The scope of work includes the arrangement of land (5 acre/MW) on a freehold basis near the 230 MW Ettayapuram Solar Project for the development of additional 230 MW solar plant with BESS projects. The bidder must also arrange for necessary approach road till pooling substation.
Bidders need to pay INR 22,500 as a tender document fee. They also need to furnish INR 5 crore as bid security.
The last date for submission of bids is May 13, 2025 till 3:00 PM. The techno-commercial bids will be opened on the same day at 3:30 PM.
Bidders must conduct topography survey for land parcels and any cutting/filling with compaction, to maintain an average slope of 10 percent for solar project land for installation of tracker-based MMS.
Bidders must also design, engineer, erect, test, and commission an AIS pooling substation and a 33 kV switchgear for interconnection between the 230 MW solar project and the 230 MW BESS.
The bidder also must design and construct single circuit EHV transmission line (on double circuit towers) from project pooling substation till 230kV switchyard of NGEL Ettayapuram solar project.
The bidder must have executed an arrangement of land for grid-connected solar PV projects/solar parks or wind projects/wind parks or a combination thereof, of cumulative capacity of 100 MW or higher, out of which at least one project/park must be of 50 MW or higher capacity.
Alternatively, the bidder must have executed in the last 10 years an industrial project either as a developer or as an EPC contractor in the area of power, steel, oil and gas, petrochemical, fertilizer, cement, coal mining including coal handling plant and or any other process industry, of a value of INR 67.50 crore or more, in a single project or single work.
The same should be in successful operation for at least one year for industrial projects other than RE projects and for at least six months for solar and wind projects.
Additionally, the bidder must have executed at least one electrical sub-station of 33 kV or above voltage level, consisting of equipment such as 33 kV or above voltage level circuit breakers and power transformer, either as a developer or as an EPC Contractor. The same should be in successful operation for at least one year for industrial projects other than RE projects and for at least six months for RE projects, prior to the date of techno-commercial bid opening.
The average annual turnover of the bidder must not be less than INR 67.50 crore, during the preceding three financial years as on the date of techno-commercial bid opening. Bidders must have positive net worth as on the last day of the preceding financial year.
please contact: contact@energetica-india.net.
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