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Saatvik Green Energy Wins BHEL’s 141.76 MW Solar Modules Order
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ndian module manufacturers, Saatvik Green Energy Pvt. Ltd. has won a 141.76 MW Solar modules tender from Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL). BHEL floated the tender for their 100 MWac Gujarat State Electricity Corporation Ltd (GSECL) Raghanesda Ultra Mega solar park in Gujarat. Saatvik Green Energy secured the bid in a reverse bidding auction while competing with other solar majors like Vikram Solar, Waaree, Goldi, and Emmvee Solar. These solar modules are to be supplied by December 2021. Speaking on their win, CEO of Saatvik Green Energy, Mr. Prashant Mathur said, “We are very pleased to secure the BHEL order and it motivates us to continue focusing on delivering the best to our customers. We believe that our superior technology and high-class quality modules paved the way to securing this prestigious order and we look forward to associating with BHEL.” Saatvik Green Energy Limited claims to possess a capacity of 500 MW per annum as of date. It engages the technologies such as Lead automation from Jinchen, the
company offers a wide range of solar PV modules inclusive of Polycrystalline, monocrystalline, glass-glass, and bifacial modules. The module maker has also plans for an additional 300 MW capacity to be added by August 2021. Saatvik’s manufacturing facility is located at Ambala, in the state of Haryana. BHEL is an Indian government-owned engineering and manufacturing enterprise based in New Delhi, India. It is under the ownership of the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, Government of India.
Recently this month, BHEL floated a tender for the supply and commissioning support of Solar Compact Station (SCS) for an 8 MWac solar PV farm at Tamarind Falls, Henrietta, Mauritius. Before that in May 2021, the engineering and manufacturing PSU invited bids under a two-part bid system from manufacturers/suppliers of Monocrystalline Silicon PV Modules for purpose of pre-bid tie-up for participating in the 500 MW Rewa Ultra Mega Solar Limited (RUMSL) Solar Park tender at Neemuch in Madhya Pradesh.
NTPC Tenders For 500 MW of Solar EPC Projects
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lose on the heels of announcing an aggressive reset of its renewable energy targets, state owned NTPC Limited has invited bids for an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) package with land development for 500 MW of grid-connected solar projects anywhere in India. The tender, floated on Friday last week (July 2) has a last date for final bids of August 10, 2021. The pre-bid meeting will be held on July 27, 2021. These bids come with the proviso of successful bidders also doing the operation and maintenance activities of the solar project for three years after completion of the trial
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runs. The projects will be pretty much completely outsourced, with the scope of work including design, manufacturing, supply, packing, forwarding, transportation, unloading, storage, installation, and commissioning of the projects. The minimum bid capacity is 50 MW, with the maximum set at 500 MW. Or in multiples of 10 from 50 MW onwards. In qualification criteria for bidders, they should have designed, supplied, erected, and commissioned as an EPC contractor or developed gridconnected solar projects of cumulative installed capacity of 40 MW or higher, out of which one power should have been of
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10 MW or higher capacity. For projects in 50 MW to 300 MW capacity, the bidder should have executed in the last ten years an industrial project either as a developer or an EPC contractor in the area of power, steel, oil, and gas, petrochemical, fertilizer, cement, coal mining, or any other process industry for a value of Rs 258 crores or more. For projects in the 310 MW to 500 MW capacity, the bidder should have executed a project for a value of Rs 516 crores or more. The project should have been in successful operation for at least one year before the bid opening date. Also, the bidder should have
executed at least one electrical substation of 33 kV or above voltage level, consisting of equipment such as 33kV or above voltage level circuit breakers and power transformers, either as a developer or as an EPC contractor, which should have been in successful operation for at least one year before the bid opening date. The land identified for the solar project will be transferred or leased in the name of NTPC or the subsidiary company. Only open category solar cells and modules have been allowed. The EPC contractor will be responsible for developing ground-mounted solar projects and a power evacuation.
