NTPC Renewable Energy (NTPC REL) has invited bids for the land and power evacuation package to develop 550 MW inter-state transmission system-connected solar projects with a battery energy storage system near the 550 MW Shimboo ka Burj solar project in Rajasthan.

Bids must be submitted by April 25, 2025. Bids will be opened on the same day.

Bidders must submit a bidding document cost of ₹22,500 (~$259.64).

The scope of work entails arranging government or private land on a freehold or leasehold basis, ensuring proper access roads, conducting topography surveys, and preparing the land for tracker-based mounting structures. Geotechnical investigations for the pooling substation and transmission system and fencing with security arrangements are also covered.

Selected bidders will also conduct lease management, including payments to landowners for the contract duration.

For power evacuation, the work entails the design, engineering, erection, testing, and commissioning of a 400 kV AIS pooling substation with tie transformers. It also involves implementing a 33 kV pooling switchgear and conducting associated civil works, including control room and switchgear buildings.

Successful bidders must also construct a single-circuit EHV transmission line on double-circuit towers from the project pooling substation to the 400 kV Shimbhoo Ka Burj solar project’s switchyard to ensure right-of-way arrangements.

They must build a terminal bay at the 400 kV switchyard, install a telemetry system for data communication, and set up a power project controller for solar and battery energy storage grid compliance.

They must also provide the monitoring systems, mandatory spares, and operation and maintenance services for the pooling substation, transmission line, and terminal bay for three years after the project’s commissioning.

Bidders must have arranged land for grid-connected solar or wind projects with a cumulative capacity of at least 100 MW, including at least one project or park of 50 MW or more. The reference project may be commissioned or yet to be commissioned.

Alternatively, the bidder must have executed an industrial project in the power, steel, oil and gas, petrochemical, fertilizer, cement, or coal mining sector worth at least ₹420 million (~$4.85 million). They must have completed such projects as either a developer or an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractor.

This project should have been in successful operation for at least one year for non-renewable sectors or six months for renewable energy sectors before the date of the techno-commercial bid opening.

Additionally, as a developer or EPC contractor, the bidder must have executed at least one electrical substation of 33kV or higher voltage, with circuit breakers and a power transformer. The substation must have successfully operated for at least one year for non-renewable projects or six months for renewable energy projects before the bid opening date.

Bidders must have a minimum annual average turnover of ₹420 million (~$4.85 million)  during the last three financial years.

They should have had a positive net worth on the last day of the last financial year.

In February, NTPC REL invited bids for a land and power evacuation package to develop 600 MW solar power projects in Tumkur, Karnataka.

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