The Tamil Nadu Green Energy Corporation (TNGECL) has invited expressions of interest (EoI) to empanel landowners willing to provide land for developing 1 MW to 4 MW solar power projects under Components A and C of the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthaan Mahabhiyan (PM-KUSUM) program.

The land will be used for decentralized, grid-connected solar projects, either ground or stilt-mounted.

Bids must be submitted by July 4, 2025.  Bids will be opened on July 5, 2025.

Bidders must submit a bid processing fee of ₹10,000 (~$116.8) plus 18% GST.

The offer to lease the land will be valid for 180 days from the date the bids are opened.

The land will be sourced from private landowners, land aggregators, registered farmer-producer organizations, entrepreneurs, sole proprietorships, and partnerships.

Bidders can be farmers, groups of farmers, panchayats, and water user associations.

Bidders can also include limited liability partnerships, consortiums, companies, cooperative societies, technology providers, registered non-governmental organizations, registered trusts, government agencies, government companies, and public sector undertakings.

TNGECL will release information about the identified land under a separate request for selection tender to the solar project developers.

Successful bidders must offer land on a lease basis to solar project developers for at least 30 years.

The minimum size of the land offered must be four acres of contiguous land in a single location. It must also be close to a substation.

The land can be either barren, uncultivable, or agricultural.

It must be within a 5 km radius of the Tamil Nadu Transmission Corporation or Tamil Nadu Power Distribution Corporation’s 33/11 kV or 110/11 kV substations.

The land parcels must not be in existing protected areas, national parks, or any notified wetland.

Bidders can offer land at a single site or multiple sites adjacent to each other under a single substation. They can also provide land at multiple locations under different substations in the same or different districts.

Solar project developers can either take the land identified under this EoI on a lease basis or source their own land to develop solar projects.

Last year, Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation floated a tender to set up 420 MW of solar power projects under Component A of PM-KUSUM program.

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