Agartala airport to get 2 MW solar plant

NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of state-owned power producer NTPC, has invited bids to develop 2 MW of grid-connected ground-mounted solar project at Agartala Airport in Tripura. 

The work scope includes design, engineering, supply, construction, erection, testing, commissioning of the plant with net metering. Operation and maintenance of the plant for three years also falls under the developer’s scope. 

“NVVN intends to finance subject package through external commercial borrowings/domestic commercial borrowings/own sources”—reads the tender document. 

To be eligible, the bidder should have a similar experience, as a developer or EPC contractor, for a cumulative installed solar capacity of 800 kWp or higher, out of which at least one plant should have been a minimum of 100 kW. The reference plant must have been in successful operation for at least six months before the techno-commercial bid opening date.

Or, it should have executed in the last ten years an industrial project, either as a developer or as an EPC contractor, in the area of power, steel, oil and gas, petrochemical, fertilizer, cement, coal mining, including coal handling plant and/or any other process industry, of a minimum INR 40 million value in a single project. The reference plant should be in successful operation for at least one year before the techno-commercial bid opening date. Further, it should have executed at least one electrical sub-station of 11 kV or above voltage level, either as a developer or EPC contractor, which should be in successful operation for at least one year before the techno-commercial bid opening date.

The bidder’s average annual turnover should be a minimum of INR 75 million during the preceding three financial years.