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<p>The Solar Energy Corporation of India Limited (<a href="https://www.seci.co.in/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">SECI</a>) has issued a Request for Selection (RfS) for setting up 4 MW of grid-connected floating solar projects. These solar projects will come with 2 MW of battery energy storage system (BESS).</p>
<p>The projects will be developed at Kalpong Dam in Diglipur, located in northern Andaman.</p>
<p>The projects will be developed on a build-own-operate (BOO) basis, and the last date for the submission of bids is February 13, 2020. The interested bidders must pay ₹5.4 million (~$76,243.9) as the earnest money deposit (EMD).</p>
<p>The maximum tariff payable to the developer has been set at ₹8 (~$0.11)/kWh for 25 years. This is inclusive of all statutory taxes, duties, levies, and cess applicable currently.</p>
<p>Interested bidders can submit a single bid for the project. The projects should be designed for interconnection with the nearest electricity department at the voltage level of 33 kV.</p>
<p>The selected bidder needs to declare the annual capacity utilization factor (CUF) that shouldn’t be less than 17%.</p>
<p>The project should achieve financial closure within a year from the effective date of the power purchase agreement (PPA). The timeline for the scheduled commissioning of the project is 18 months. In case of a delay in commissioning beyond 24 months, the total performance bank guarantee will be encashed by the agency.</p>
<p>If the project is transferred or sold to a third party during its tenure, the Andaman administration will retain full rights to operationalize the PPA with the third party, the tender states.</p>
<p>Under the RfS, SECI has proposed to promote only commercially established and operational technologies to minimize the technology risk and to achieve the timely commissioning of the project and expects the successful bidder to confirm the selection of technology at the time of financial closure.</p>
<p>The scope of work includes the design, engineering, manufacture, dispatch, transportation, and storage of all equipment and materials such as the adequate capacity of solar PV modules with suitable ratings. The solar modules must qualify for the latest edition of the IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) qualification test or an equivalent by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) standards.</p>
<p>The net worth of the bidder should be at least ₹54 million (~$760,285), while the minimum annual turnover should be ₹48 million (~$677,723) during the previous financial year.</p>
<p>Last year, Rajasthan Electronics and Instruments Limited (<a href="http://www.reiljp.com/indexE.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">REIL</a>), a public-sector enterprise, had floated a tender to set up 1.7 MW of solar projects with a battery energy storage system in Andaman and Nicobar islands.</p>
<p>In the recent past, there have been several tender announcements for floating solar projects across states and union territories. According to Mercom’s <a href="https://mercomindia.com/product/india-solar-project-tracker/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">India Solar Project Tracker</a>, over 400 MW of floating solar projects are currently under the development pipeline across India.</p>
<p>For instance, in February 2019, Mercom reported that SECI <a href="https://mercomindia.com/seci-floating-solar-lakshadweep-bess/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">issued</a> a tender for 20 MW of floating solar projects with 60 MW BESS on a turnkey basis in the union territory of Lakshadweep.</p>
<p>Previously, SECI had issued another tender for the <a href="https://mercomindia.com/seci-floating-solar-tender-tamil-nadu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">utilization</a> of water bodies in Tamil Nadu for the development of a 250 MW floating solar PV capacity.</p>
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<div class="saboxplugin-wrap" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" itemscope itemprop="author"><div class="saboxplugin-tab"><div class="saboxplugin-gravatar"></div><div class="saboxplugin-authorname"><a href="https://cms.mercomindia.com/author/anjana/" class="vcard author" rel="author"><span class="fn">Anjana Parikh</span></a></div><div class="saboxplugin-desc"><div itemprop="description"><p><img class="alignleft" src="https://mercomindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Anjana2.png" width="112" height="121" />Anjana is a news editor at Mercom India. Before joining Mercom, she held roles of senior editor, district correspondent, and sub-editor for The Times of India, Biospectrum and The Sunday Guardian. Before that, she worked at the Deccan Herald and the Asianlite as chief sub-editor and news editor. She has also contributed to The Quint, Hindustan Times, The New Indian Express, Reader’s Digest (UK edition), IndiaSe (Singapore-based magazine) and Asiaville. Anjana holds a Master’s degree in Geography from North Bengal University, and a diploma in mass communication and journalism from Guru Ghasidas University, Bhopal.</p>
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