The Tamil Nadu Cooperative Milk Producers’ Federation (TCMPF) has invited bids to procure 30 MW of solar, wind, or surplus power from producers through an open access arrangement for five years.

The scope of work includes the purchase of solar and wind power and surplus power from producers for metro dairies, one product dairy, one dairy-cum-powder plant at Ammapalayam, Madurai ice cream plant, and other outlets.

The TCMPF represents 25 district cooperative milk producers’ unions.

The last date to submit the bids online is June 8, 2023. Bids will be opened the following day.

Bidders must submit ₹100,000 (~$1,223) as an earnest money deposit.

The estimated value of the tender is ₹1.752 billion (~$21.44 million).

The supply of power should commence after three months from the purchase order.

The contracted energy per year is 43.8 GWh, approximately for five years. The period can be extended to another five years with mutual consent.

Any bidder with a minimum capacity of 5 MW can participate in the tender and should supply a minimum of 4,000 units/day.

To be eligible for bidding, the bidder, as a developer, should have installed and commissioned at least 5 MW grid-connected solar power or wind project in the last five years. The project should have been commissioned at least six months before the bid opening date.

Alternatively, bidders should have executed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with a solar project, a wind project, or power generators from which power has been proposed to be supplied.

A bidder who is a power trader should have executed at least 5 MW of PPAs for solar, wind, surplus power from producers, or renewable energy source in the last five years prior to the bid submission date.

Alternatively, the solar and wind project, or projects from where surplus power is procured, should have an untied capacity sufficient to supply at least the contracted energy required.

The bidder should have an annual turnover equal to the value of the solar power quoted in the last three financial years.

If the actual energy supplied in any month is less than 6% of the annual contracted energy, bidders must pay a penalty of 25% of the quoted tariff during such month.

In February this year, the Karnataka Cooperative Milk Producers’ Federation invited bids for the implementation of a 110 MW solar power project in group captive mode.

Earlier, TCMPF had issued a tender to procure 20 GWh of solar power per year through open access projects for five years.

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