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					</table><p>The Tamil Nadu Cooperative Milk Producers Federation (<a href="https://aavin.tn.gov.in/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Aavin</a>) has issued a tender to procure 20 GWh of solar power per year through open access projects for five years.</p>
<p>The contracted energy for each year of the contracted period will be 21.09 million units.</p>
<p>Bidders must be able to supply at least 1 MW or 4,000 units per day to the grid. The estimated value of the contract is ₹456.2 million (~$5.72 million).</p>
<p>The last day to submit the bids is October 17, 2022. The bids will be opened on October 18.</p>
<p>Bidders must submit an earnest money deposit of ₹4.56 million (~$57,186).</p>
<p>The Tamil Nadu Co-operative Milk Producers Federation represents 25 district co-operative milk producers’ unions. The 20 GWh of solar power is being procured to meet the annual power requirement of its three metro dairies, product dairy and dairy with powder plant.</p>
<p>To be eligible, bidders should either be solar project developers or owners and operators of existing solar projects. Power traders with a back-to-back arrangement with solar generators can also participate in the bid.</p>
<p>Bidders should have installed and commissioned at least 1 MW of grid-connected solar projects in the last five years. The project should have been commissioned six months before the bid opening date.</p>
<p>Bidders who own and operate existing solar projects must furnish the certificate of commissioning as documentary evidence. The project must have an untied capacity sufficient to meet the contracted capacity requirement.</p>
<p>Power traders must have executed at least 1 MW of power purchase agreements for renewable energy in the last five years before the bid submission date. The solar project from where they intend to supply the power should have untied capacity sufficient to meet the contracted capacity requirement.</p>
<p>The average annual sales turnover for the last three financial years must equal the value of solar power quoted.</p>
<p>Bidders will be responsible for obtaining all permits, approvals, licenses, clearances, and insurances for the generation and supply of power from the proposed power station through open access.</p>
<p>In case the actual energy supplied in any month is less than 6% of the annual contracted energy, bidders must pay the penalty at the rate of 25% of the quoted tariff during such month. The same will apply to any shortfall in actual energy supplied during a year.</p>
<p>Recently, Karnataka Cooperative Milk Producers Federation <a href="https://mercomindia.com/bids-100-mw-open-access-solar-karnataka-milk-unions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">invited</a> bids for installing and commissioning 100 MW of solar power projects under the group captive model for KMF and its other member unions.</p>
<p>Subscribe to Mercom’s <a href="https://mercomindia.com/product/india-solar-tender-tracker/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">India Solar Tender Tracker</a> to stay on top of tender activity in real-time.</p>
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Tender Issued for 20 GWh of Solar Power Via Open Access by Tamil Nadu Milk Co-operative


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					</table><p><a href="https://www.milma.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Milma</a>, the state government-run cooperative dairy plant in Ernakulam, Kerala, has installed a 2 MW captive solar project. The new installation has helped reduce the power bills from ₹4 million (~$50,471) to ₹1.5 million (~$18,926) every two months.</p>
<p>The solar plant is supported by a long-term loan of ₹115 million (~$1.45 million) from the <a href="https://www.nddb.coop/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Dairy Development Board</a> with subsidized interest rates. The initiative will soon be adopted by 14 other major dairy plants across Kerala in an effort to reduce carbon emissions and make the plants cost-effective.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.milma.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kerala Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation</a> (KCMMF) aims to adopt solar for operating all the plants and milk processing units. “Reducing the electricity bills to one-third of what is being spent now is on top of our minds. With the support of the National Dairy Development Board and <a href="https://anert.gov.in/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ANERT</a>, this can be accomplished sooner,” Mohanan, Energy transition consultant, KCMMF, Thiruvananthapuram, told Mercom.</p>
<p>ANERT (Agency for Renewable Energy Research and Technology) works with the Ministry of Power in Kerala.</p>
<p>The dairies are located in Ernakulam, Thiruvananthapuram, Alappuzha, Kattapana, Kottayam, Pathanamthitta, Kannur, Thrissur, Kollam, Kozhikode, Malayora, Palakkad, Wayanad, and Kasargod. The dairies procure milk from a network of over 3,000 primary co-operatives and about a million dairy farmers affiliated with them. The annual turnover of these cooperatives is over ₹30 billion (~$378.07 million).</p>
<p>“The availability of financial support with a lower interest rate and the installation support from ANERT make things easier for us,” says the manager at the Ernakulam dairy plant, where the solar project installation work is underway.</p>
<p>The dairy sector is energy-intensive, with the daily collection and storage of milk and milk products, and operates on both heat and electricity. “The fully solar-powered dairy in Ernakulam will be a great model, to begin with,” Union minister of state for animal husbandry and dairy development L. Murugan tweeted recently.</p>
<p>The beginning made at Ernakulam in Kerala will have many lessons in decarbonization for dairies across the country.</p>
<p>Earlier this month, Banaskantha District Co-operative Milk Producers’ Union (Banas Dairy) <a href="https://mercomindia.com/banas-dairy-bids-1-mw-rooftop-solar-gujarat/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">invited</a> bids for the design, manufacture, supply, installation, and commissioning of a 1 MW rooftop solar system at its facility in the Sanadar village of Gujarat on a turnkey basis.</p>
<p>Mercom recently <a href="https://mercomindia.com/switching-to-solar-could-halve-electricity-bills-of-cold-storage-units/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the switch to solar has helped halve the electricity bills for cold storage units over time, making food storage more efficient and cost-effective.</p>
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