The Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL) in India has issued a request to encourage proposals on the installation of a battery energy storage system (BESS) possessing 2,000 MW/4,000 MWh of capacity.
On Monday, the power distribution company issued a Request for Selection (RfS) so as to issue contracts for projects, which will be developed via the build-own-operate (BOO) model.
A single-stage e-tendering will be used to do a competitive round. Bidding is to take the form of technical and financial bids, which will be closed by September 15 and the minimum size of allowed bids will be 100 MW/200 MWh.
The successful projects are also to be deployed at various points and will be linked to substations that are owned by either MSEDCL or Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission Company (MSETCL). MSEDCL will grant the land on right-of-use to the standalone installations taking place, whereas the title of the land, along with the renewable energy co-located batteries established within a current renewable energy plant having a power purchase agreement (PPA) at MSEDCL, will be the responsibility of the bidder to arrange.
Every BESS must be able to offer two complete run times of charge and discharge in a span of 24 hours, having a two-hour capacity of the discharge. Developers must guarantee availability of at least 95 percent of the systems per year, whereas their plant must come online 18 months upon signature of a contract with MSEDCL.
Viability Gap Funding (VGF) will be INR 180,000 (USD 2,075/EUR 1,788) per MWh, which will be provided on a three-stage basis.
