NTPC Issues Tender for 25 MW Floating Solar Project in Andhra Pradesh

The National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) has announced that it has floated a tender to develop a 25 MW floating solar project at NTPC Simhadri, located in Andhra Pradesh. The tender permits for the project’s solar cells and modules to be sourced globally.

The concise scope of work includes the supply of floaters, installation, anchoring, fixing of floaters, pathways corresponding to 35 MW (minimum) along with the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) of the project based on open category PV modules and cells.

The last date for bid submission is January 22, 2018. The techno-commercial bid will open on January 23, 2018.

To be qualified to bid for the project, a bidder should have designed, supplied, installed and commissioned grid connected solar PV project of cumulative installed capacity of 20 MW or higher, out of which at least one project should be of 10 MW capacity or higher. The average yearly turnover of the bidder should not be less than Rs. 947 million ($13.19 million) in the previous three financial years.

In the past few weeks, the NTPC has issued a chain of tenders for renewable capacity addition in its portfolio. Lately, the NTPC invited bids for the development of 70 MW of floating solar PV projects at the Rajiv Gandhi Combined Cycle Power Project at Kayamkulam, Kerala.

Floating solar projects have turn out to be an attractive option for agencies in regions where land convenience for large-scale solar projects poses a risk to the expansion of solar.