SECI Floats Tender for a 20 MW Solar Project with 50 MWh of Battery Energy Storage in Leh

• The last date for submitting the bids is February 10, 2021

The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has actually floated a tender for a 20 MW solar energy project with a 50 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS). The project will certainly be established in Phyang, located in Leh district of the union region of Ladakh.

SECI claimed interested bidders were not needed to pay an earnest money down payment (EMD) to join the tender. The last date for the submission of bids is February 10, 2021.

The scope of work includes the layout, design, purchase, supply, screening, packaging, associated civil works, installment, testing, and also appointing of the solar energy project and also BESS in addition to interconnected transmission lines and efficiency demo. Successful prospective buyers are anticipated to provide 10 years of detailed operations and also upkeep for the project.

To be eligible to take part in the competitive bidding process, applicants need to have experience implementing similar design, procurement, and building (EPC) works for ground-mounted solar projects with a collective capability of 10 MW in the last 7 fiscal years.

Alternatively, they have to have executed two similar projects with a capability of 2 MW each. These projects must have remained in adequate operating conditions for the last 6 months.

Potential prospective buyers are expected to have a minimal typical annual turn over of at least 1.31 billion (~$17.8 million) in the last three financial years. Their total assets must have declared in the last fiscal year. Bidders need to also have a minimal capital of 545 million (~$7.4 million) based on their most recent audited financial statement. They should also protect a letter from their financial institution verifying the schedule of the line of credit rating for this amount.

The monocrystalline as well as bifacial modules to be utilized in the project has to be locally manufactured as well as be consisted of in the Approved List of Models and Manufacturers (ALMM) according to the Ministry of New and also Renewable Energy's standards.

In February, it additionally released a tender for setting up 14 MW of solar energy projects with 42 MWh battery storage system (7MW/21 MWh each) at Leh as well as Kargil departments. SECI had initially provided an NIT for the tender in March 2019.

India Solar Tender Tracker, SECI has actually released 373 MW of solar tenders for projects with BESS as of December 2020.

Previously this year, the Military Engineer Services welcomed bids for 3 MW of solar projects at 2 places in the Leh area of Ladakh. The tender was to establish a 1.5 MW project in addition to battery energy storage space systems rated at 0.75 MW/2.5 MWh each at Tangtse and also Durbuk.