The Karnataka Renewable Energy Development (KREDL) has floated a tender for the engineering, procurement, and construction of a 1.2 MW ground-mounted, grid-connected solar power project with a 300 kW green hydrogen project in Bellary, Karnataka.

Bids must be submitted by January 13, 2025. Bids will be opened on January 16, 2025.

Bidders must submit an earnest money deposit of ₹1.31 million (~$15,417).

The estimated project cost is ₹130.8 million (~$1.53 million).

Selected bidders must design, fabricate, supply, install, test, commission, and provide operation and maintenance services for ten years. They must also provide a power evacuation setup within the Karnataka Power Corporation’s (KPCL) Bellary premises.

Successful bidders must ensure that the power evacuation from the solar project is connected to the KPCL thermal station through the existing 11 kV feeder. They must also install an availability-based tariff meter.

They must complete the project within six months of winning the tender.

Bidders must have a minimum annual turnover of ₹261.6 million (~$3.07 million) in the last five years.

Bidders must have completed a project at least 80% of the tender’s value in the last five years as an EPC contractor.

They must also be one of the following:

• An EPC contractor
• A green hydrogen system manufacturer
• A channel partner of green hydrogen system manufacturers
• A consortium of entities mentioned above

Bidders must have designed, engineered, constructed, completed, and commissioned at least one 1.3 MWac ground-mounted grid-connected solar project on a total or partial turnkey basis in the last five years.

Bidders must be manufacturers or channel partners of water electrolysis technologies.

They must be a manufacturer of electrolyzers with indigenized technologies in the Production Linked Incentive scheme issued by the Government of India under the Strategic Interventions for Green Hydrogen Transition initiative. They must have commissioned electrolyzers with a cumulative capacity of 240 kW in the last five years in India. These projects must have been operational for at least one year before the bid’s closing date.

Alternatively, they must have experience in completing a green hydrogen generation project of a cumulative capacity of 240 kW during the last five years on an EPC contract. These projects must have been operational for at least one year before the bid’s closing date.

In July 2024, KREDL invited bids to select a developer to commission a 100 MW grid-connected ground-mounted solar project and a 50 MW/130 MWh battery energy storage system in Kalaburagi district.

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