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					</table><p><a href="https://bondada.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bondada Engineering</a>, an infrastructure engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) company, has won the EPC contract from Singareni Collieries Company (<a href="https://scclmines.com/scclnew/index.asp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SCCL</a>) for a 67.5 MW solar power project in the Mandamarri area in Telangana.</p>
<p>The scope of the contract includes the design, engineering, supply, construction, erection, testing, and commissioning of the project, along with setting up the 220 kV transmission system. Bondada will also be responsible for the project’s operation and maintenance for ten years.</p>
<p>The company quoted a gross order value of ₹4.34 billion (~$52.20 million) to win the contract and was recently granted the letter of intent.</p>
<p>SCCL, a coal mining company owned by the Government of Telangana and the Government of India, had <a href="https://www.mercomindia.com/singareni-collieries-invites-solar-projects-in-telangana" target="_blank" rel="noopener">floated</a> the tender for the three projects in September 2023 for 67.5 MW, 134.5 MW, and 30 MW.</p>
<p>The 134.5 MW project would be spread across four SCCL sites: the Kothagudem area (32.5 MW), the Sri Rampur area (27.5 MW), the STPP area (37.5 MW), and the Ramgundam-3 Area (37 MW, comprising 20 MW ground-based and 17 MW OB dump-based).</p>
<p>The 30 MW project would be distributed across three SCCL sites: the Yellandu area (15 MW), the Bhupalapalli area (10 MW), and the Ramgundam-1 area (5 MW).</p>
<p>Solar cells and modules for the projects must be obtained exclusively from manufacturers listed in List-I (solar photovoltaic modules) of the most recent Approved List of Models and Modules order issued by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.</p>
<p>The Ministry of Coal, under its net-zero electricity consumption plan for coal/lignite public sector undertakings, has <a href="https://www.mercomindia.com/indian-coal-sector-targets-9-gw-renewable-2030">set</a> a renewable energy target of 9 GW in the coal sector by 2030 from the present 1.75 GW.</p>
<p>According to the Ministry, the total solar capacity installed by leading coal companies like Coal India, NLC India, and SCCL is 1,700 MW, and the wind capacity is 51 MW.</p>
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Singareni Collieries Awards 67.5 MW Solar EPC Contract in Telangana


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					</table><p>Larsen and Toubro (<a href="https://www.larsentoubro.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">L&amp;T</a>) has won the engineering procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the Solar Energy Corporation of India’s (<a href="https://www.seci.co.in/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SECI</a>) 100 MW floating solar power project to be set up at Getalsud Dam in Ranchi, Jharkhand.</p>
<p>The scope of work will include the design, engineering, supply, construction, erection, testing, and commissioning of the project. The company will also be responsible for the project’s operation and maintenance (O&amp;M) for five years.</p>
<p>L&amp;T quoted a total contract price of ₹6.06 billion (~$73.13 million) to win the contract. The price comprises ₹5.9 billion (~$71.19 million) for the EPC price, including all taxes and duties, and ₹157.6 million (~$1.90 million) for the O&amp;M price, including the GST for five years.</p>
<p>The EPC contract awarded to L&amp;T has a deemed export benefit component comprising of the Basic Customs Duty (BCD) component on modules and inverters amounting to ₹812.02 million (~$9.80 million) excluding GST on BCD value or ₹924.08 million (~$11.15 million) including GST on BCD value. The exemption was granted to L&amp;T in line with the declaration they had submitted under the Deemed Export benefit and Against Project Authority Certificate provided by SECI.</p>
<p>The project is tendered through International Competitive Bidding and funded by the World Bank. Therefore, it was treated as a Deemed Export and exempted from BCD for the imported supply of the goods against “Project Authority Certificate (PAC).”</p>
<p>SECI had <a href="https://www.mercomindia.com/seci-epc-tender-floating-solar-jharkhand" target="_blank" rel="noopener">floated</a> the EPC tender for the project back in February 2022.</p>
<p>In September 2023, the Jharkhand State Electricity Regulatory Commission <a href="https://www.mercomindia.com/jharkhand-discom-procure-power-100-mw-floating-solar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allowed</a> the Jharkhand Bijli Vitran Nigam (JBVNL) to procure 100 MW of power from this floating solar project to fulfill its renewable purchase obligation.</p>
<p>The Commission added that JBVNL should procure power from the project at a ceiling price of ₹3.50 (~$0.042)/kWh or lower.</p>
<p>SECI will have to file a petition for tariff determination after the project is commissioned.</p>
<p>JBVNL, in its petition, emphasized that the project would receive a ‘must Run’ designation, exempt from merit order dispatch by the JBVNL. Power from the project would be injected at a single point into the state transmission utility of Jharkhand Urja Sancharan Nigam at the interconnection point.</p>
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L&T Wins ₹6.06 Billion EPC Contract for SECI’s 100 MW Floating Solar Project

<p>The renewables arm of Larsen &amp; Toubro’s Power Transmission &amp; Distribution Business has secured a turnkey engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract from the consortium of ACWA Power and the Water and Electricity Holding Company, a subsidiary of the Public Investments Fund of Saudi Arabia (PIF), for the Sudair Solar photovoltaic (PV) Project of 1.5 GW capacity.</p>
<p>The project is considered to be the largest solar project in Saudi Arabia.</p>
<p>The project coming up in Riyadh Province has a 30.8 square kilometer land parcel available to install a total capacity of 1.5 GW PV solar modules with associated single axis tracker and inverters.</p>
<p>As part of Saudi Arabia’s National Renewable Energy Program (NREP), the Sudair project is awarded to PIF and its partner, ACWA Power. This project is part of 70% of the target capacity of 58.7 GW assigned to PIF. The Renewable Energy Project Development Office (REPDO) would undertake competitive tendering for the remaining 30%.</p>
<p>“With several GW of solar EPC experience, L&amp;T has emerged as a global technology player for solar plants,” said S.N. Subrahmanyan, chief executive officer and managing director, Larsen &amp; Toubro.</p>
<p>Securing the project is a major milestone in the firm’s clean and green energy path to fight the climate crisis that the world faces, Subrahmanyan said.</p>
<p>“L&amp;T has been a provider of EPC services for several green projects in recent years. We have a diversified renewable portfolio of 32 M.W. floating solar power plants, 135 MWh of battery energy storage projects, 500 microgrids, and 14,000 solar water pumps. L&amp;T is also working on potential solutions related to green hydrogen and carbon capture and storage technologies.”</p>
<p>In an expansion move, in a BSE filing in February this year, L&amp;T had <a href="https://mercomindia.com/daily-news-wrap-up-solar-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> its power transmission &amp; distribution business had secured two engineering, procurement, and construction orders to establish over 400 MW of solar projects in Gujarat.</p>
<p>In 2020, Saudi Arabia had <a href="https://mercomindia.com/saudi-arabia-solar-tender/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">issued</a> the request for qualification (RfQ) for four solar projects with a cumulative capacity of 1,200 MW.</p>
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L&T Construction Bags EPC Order to Set Up 1.5 GW Solar PV Project in Saudi Arabia

<p>NLC India has tendered a solar EPC contract for 709 MW to be developed in the state of Tamil Nadu. The bid-submission deadline is August 4, 2017.</p>
<p>The scope of work includes, procurement of land, design, engineering, manufacture, inspection at supplier’s works, supply insurance, transport, storage, erection, testing, commissioning of the project.</p>
<p>The successful bidder will also be responsible for provisional take over of the project with associated power evacuation system including grid connectivity approval from Tamil Nadu electricity authorities, load flow study, bay extensions, external transmission lines and right of way.</p>
<p>The successful bidder will provide operation and maintenance (O&amp;M) services for a period of 15 years after one-year warranty period.</p>
<p>NLC India has fixed 50 MW as the minimum project capacity at a single location and 12 months from date of issue of letter of award as the project completion timeframe.</p>
<p>NLC India won a bid to develop 709 MW of the 1,500 MW recently tendered by TANGEDCO. NLC India had bid for the entire capacity.</p>
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