SECI Releases Tender For Rooftop Solar Scheme worth 97.5 MW

The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has announced that it has released an announcement with reference to its Notice Inviting Tenders (NIT) for the implementation of 97.5 MW grid-connected rooftop solar PV system scheme for government buildings in different states/union territories of India under the CAPEX/RESCO model under global competitive bidding.

The Central Electronics Limited (CEL) has lately floated tender inviting bids for the implementation of 11.12 MW at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) premises across India. The rooftop project will be developed under the government’s Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) which now has a target of 100,000 MW of grid solar power by 2022, and will be set up under the RESCO mode.

The detailed tender document is under preparation and shall be available for download from February 21, 2019, onwards on www.tcil-india-electronictender.com.

The tariff ceiling for the sites falling under general category states and union territories is Rs 7/kWh while for the sites falling under special category states and Its the cap is fixed at Rs 4.82/kWh.

Last week, SECI had issued an NIT for development of a 2 MW solar PV plant at Army Posts in Jammu and Kashmir, at the army posts in Siachen and an army post in Partapur.