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New Delhi: State-run Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has invited bids for setting up facilities for the production of Green Hydrogen and manufacturing facilities for electrolysers. According to the Request for Selection (RfS) documents floated by SECI, bids have been invited for setting up production facilities for 4.5 lakh tonnes of Green Hydrogen and for manufacturing facilities of 1,500 MW for electrolysers. The tenders come days after the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) unveiled the incentive schemes for Green Hydrogen production and electrolyser manufacturing under the Strategic Interventions for Green Hydrogen Transition (SIGHT) scheme.
According to the tender document, the total capacity available for bidding is 4.5 lakh tonne per annum, including 4.1 lakh tonne under Technology Agnostic Pathways and 40,000 tonne under Biomass-based pathways. The total capacity to be allocated under this tender is 450,000 tonne per annum of green hydrogen (GH2), said the document. It provided that a bidder, including its parent, affiliate or ultimate parent or any group company shall submit a single bid undertaking to set up a GH2 production facility. The projects shall be quoted in multiples of 500 tonne only, it stated.
Under the Technology Agnostic Pathways (Bucket I), minimum bid capacity would be for 10,000 tonnes, while the maximum would be 90,000 tonnes. Under Biomass-based Pathways (Bucket II), the minimum bid capacity would be 500 tonnes, while the maximum would be 4,000 tonnes. The maximum time allowed for commissioning (SCD) would be 30 months from the date of the Letter of Award. The tender was floated on July 10, 2023 and a pre-bid meeting is scheduled on July 28, 2023.
Hard copies of the bids can be submitted by September 11, 2023 and these would be opened on September 12, 2023.
In a separate tender for the manufacturing of electrolysers, SECI has offered capacities under two buckets — 1,200 MW capacities based on any stack technology and 300 MW capacity based on indigenously developed stack technology. Bidders can bid for a minimum of 100 MW and a maximum of 300 MW under bucket I. For the other bucket, there’s no lower limit for bids but a ceiling of 300 MW. The bidder shall be allowed to bid for either or both buckets. The bids for the ‘Electrolyser manufacturing capacity based on any stack technology’ bucket will be decided first, followed by the bids for the ‘Electrolyser manufacturing capacity-based on indigenously developed stack technology’ bucket. Bidders can submit bids until September 5. And bids will be opened on September 8.
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