NTPC Green Energy (NGEL) has invited bids to deploy a qualified coordinating agency (QCA) for forecasting, scheduling, and aggregation services at a 296 MW solar power project in Fategarh, Uttar Pradesh.

Bids must be submitted by August 7, 2025. Bids will be opened on the same day.

Bidders must submit a security amount of 10% of the contract value.

Successful bidders must provide services for 12 months. These services could be extended per NGEL’s requirements.

The scope of work encompasses collecting real-time data on power generation and installing modem-based energy meters.

Alternatively, selected bidders must make arrangements for real-time data from the supervisory control and data acquisition systems site, as well as the analysis of all available static and historical data.

The scope of work also entails integrating weather data, setting up the forecast model, collecting available data for solar inverters/transformers, and collecting weather data from reputable forecasting agencies.

Successful bidders must provide a day-ahead/week-ahead schedule/forecast as prescribed by the regional load dispatch centre (RLDC) or the state load dispatch centre.

The schedule will be 96 blocks of 15 minutes each, from 00:00 hours to 10:00 AM the next day.

Selected bidders must provide intra-day revisions to the forecast/schedule per the provisions of the applicable deviation settlement mechanism (DSM), and coordinate and implement the revised schedule.

Successful bidders must provide a web-based application for the live display of real-time data and graphical trends of the latest schedule and actual project generation.

All data collected related to the DSM collected during the contract period must be stored for the contract’s duration.

Selected bidders must provide 24/7 support services and establish a team of renewable resource analysts, modeling statisticians, energy modelers, and a full-time operation and monitoring team.

The QCA must coordinate and facilitate power scheduling for all power generators participating in the aggregation at the pooling station with the relevant RLDC. It must also undertake commercial settlement of deviations with these centers.

Selected bidders must establish and maintain a round-the-clock coordination center for operational coordination with RLDC and generating stations. They must

maintain records and accounts of the time-block-wise schedules, the actual power injected, and the deviation, for both the pooling station and individual generators.

Successful bidders must also share the data with the power generators.

The scope of work also entails maintaining a weekly record of de-pooling of DSM by RLDC or a renewable energy agency for the aggregated capacities as per schedule. A record of the actual power generation of individual generators must be maintained to determine the DSM calculation, including payable or receivable amounts based on individual under-injection or over-injection.

The QCA must verify the pool DSM with actual data and identify discrepancies.

It must share the power generator’s data, including the de-pooled DSM impact. It must also share the pool data of other power generators, as published by RLDC, through a real-time portal updated weekly.

Recently, NGEL invited bids for the deployment of QCA to provide forecasting, scheduling, and punching of finalized schedules into the relevant grid portal and aggregation services for its 250 MW solar power project at Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh.

In June, the Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission amended the formula for calculating the net worth criteria for selecting a QCA.

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