SECI to Release Tender for Development of 250 MW Floating Solar in Tamil Nadu

The Solar Energy Corporation of India Ltd. (SECI) has announced that it has released a tender for utilization of water bodies (reservoirs, dams, lakes) in Tamil Nadu for development of 250 MW floating solar PV capacity.

The comprehensive Request for Selection (RfS) will be accessible for downloading by March 29, 2019.

As implementing agencies and developers both struggle with the issue of land availability, floating solar PV tenders are on the rise as India has a large number of reservoirs, lakes, dams where floating solar PV could be deployed.

Lately, SECI had issued a tender for setting up 150 MW of floating solar PV projects in Ranchi, Jharkhand. Out of 150 MW, 100 MW floating solar power project was to be developed at the reservoir of Getalsud Dam and 50 MW floating solar power project, at the reservoir at Dhurwa Dam.

SECI also issued another lot of tenders. The tenders were for setting up 750 MW of grid-connected solar PV power projects in Rajasthan (Tranche-II Non-Solar Park), for 500 MW of grid-connected solar power projects in Tamil Nadu (Phase-1, Non-Solar Park).