RUMSL Welcomes Bids for ESIA of 600 MW Floating Solar Project in MP

• If it progresses, the project will dwarf most floating solar plants around the globe with its dimension.
• The troubles with the 150 MW Rihand floating project also highlight the many difficulties huge floating solar projects have to overcome.

The Rewa Ultra Mega Solar Limited (RUMSL) is seeking bids from consultants for the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) of a 600 MW floating solar PV project and its auxiliary structures (consisting of floating/ marine frameworks, transmission framework, and so on) situated in the Kaveri Branch storage tank of Omkareshwar Dam, Madhya Pradesh. The action was long awaited, with the project possibly the largest floating solar project worldwide when finished. Thinking forward progress with the ESIA, actual honor and work is not likely to begin this year obviously.

The last day to submit the bids is September 13, 2021, and bids will certainly be opened on September 14, 2021. The power from the 600 MW floating solar park would certainly be evacuated through devoted transmission line to nearest CTU/STU substation.

RUMSL, a joint endeavor of Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) and Madhya Pradesh Urja Vikas Nigam Limited (MPUVNL), stated that financial backing for the project will certainly be sought from multilateral firms or banks.

A preliminary standard research study has currently been carried out for the solar park, which will certainly be shown the selected expert(s). However the broad scope of the new research study is to carry out the ESIA via covering environmental, social and financial elements so as to predict the positive and negative impacts of the suggested project during its building and construction and procedure phases, says RUMSL's RfP (ask for proposition).

Additionally, the professional(s) should progress mitigation steps in the form of Environmental Management Plan to reduce unfavorable impacts, including the socio-economic facets and R&R Plan for project impacted individuals.

At the end of the research study, the consultants will certainly suggest a framework for taking care of ecological and social impacts in the project location and its environments; based on the crucial needs of the Government of India and Asian Development Bank (Safeguard Policy Statement, 2009), as suitable.

Regardless of anything consisted of in the preliminary standard research study, the chosen specialists will be called for to assess and examine the end result of their very own research and might count exclusively on their individual reasoning.

Prospective buyers are called for to send, as part of their proposition, a bid security of Rs 5 lakhs. The effective prospective buyers will have to send a Performance Security of Rs 5 lakhs with the acceptance of order that will be valid for 6 months.

In order to be eligible to submit bids, the expert has to be a solitary entity or a consortium of entities (maximum two entities including lead bidder's entity), such that the professional/ members of the bidding process consortium are each be a company registered under the Companies Act, 1956/2013 or Limited Liability Partnership firm registered under Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008.

The consultant ought to have finished at least 2 environmental and social impact assessment assignments or two atmosphere impact assessment studies and 2 social impact assessment studies during the last 5 fiscal years.

The professional ought to have recurring or finished projects consisting of one ecological and social impact assessment or one social impact assessment, or one environmental impact assessment on floating solar projects or overseas wind projects on any type of water body within or outside India.

Furthermore, the professional needs to have finished at least one environment and social impact assessment or one ecological impact assessment and one social impact assessment research in the last 5 fiscal years on power transmission projects, states RUMSL.

The consultant needs to also have ecological and social advisory experience covering impact assessment for more than 5 years.

The bidder's minimum turn over from working as a consultant services should be at the very least Rs 5 crores in a minimum of 2 of the last 5 fiscal years.

The proposition will certainly remain valid for the period of 90 days from the last day of submission. The proposition with credibility of less than 90 days might be rejected as non-responsive.