REC Power Development and Consultancy (RECPDCL) has invited bids to establish a 400/132 kV AIS substation in Jalna district, Maharashtra. The project will be executed on a build, own, operate, and transfer basis.

Bids must be submitted by October 31, 2025. Bids will be opened on the same day.

Bidders must furnish an earnest money deposit of ₹100 million (~$1.16 million) and a bid document of ₹500,000 (~$5,813.95) plus 18% GST.

Successful bidders must submit a contract performance guarantee of ₹250 million (~$2.91 million).

RECPDCL has said the neighboring regions of Tirthpuri, Ghansawangi, Partur, and Utwad are rich in renewable energy, with a potential of 1 GW to 2 GW that can be transmitted through the proposed substation.

The scope of work includes the survey, design, engineering, procurement, financing, construction, testing, and commissioning of the substation. It also entails providing operation and maintenance services for 35 years.

Selected bidders must install three 315 MVA, 400/132 kV interconnecting transformers (ICTs), one 125 MVAr bus reactor at 400 kV, four 400 kV line bays, three 400 kV ICT bays, one 400 kV reactor bay, 12 132 kV line bays, and three 132 kV ICT bays. The substation will provide space for one additional 315 MVA ICT and future bays.

The project scope covers a loop-in-loop-out (LILO) of the 400 kV Aurangabad-II (Thaptitanda)–Aurangabad-III (Ektuni) double circuit line at AIS Jalna, and multiple 132 kV outgoing double circuit lines, including connections to Jalna MIDC, Partur, Ghansawangi, and Utwad substations, along with LILO of the Jalna–Nagewadi 132 kV line. The respective utilities will provide bays at existing substations. For LILOs, the conductor and optical ground wire specifications must match existing line parameters.

The projects must be commissioned within 24 months.

Bidders must have developed projects with capital expenditures of at least ₹5 billion (~$58.14 million) or have received construction payments of a similar scale.

Bidders must have a minimum net worth of ₹2.5 billion (~$29.07 million).

In June this year, RECPDCL invited bids for the implementation of a 765 kV interstate transmission system between Parli New, Maharashtra, and Bidar, Karnataka, on a build, own, operate, and transfer basis.

In the same month, RECPDCL issued a request for proposal for developing a 2,000 MW intrastate transmission system to evacuate power from a proposed solar park at Ryapte village in Tumkur district, Karnataka.