India’s GUVNL tenders 1 GWh of standalone battery energy storage

Gujarati utility GUVNL has invited bids to set up 500 MW/1 GWh of grid-connected, standalone BESS in the state.
Successful bidders will secure a battery energy storage purchase agreement with the state-owned electric company and will develop the sites on a build, own, operate (BOO) basis.
With bids due by February 24, 2025, the minimum bid size is for 50 MW/100 MWh BESS with developers able to increase the scale of their proposals in 50 MW/100 MWh intervals.
GUVNL also opened a tender to allocate 250 MW of grid-connected, BOO solar projects anywhere in India, and reserved the right to award a further 250 MW of generation capacity. The utility said it may award 25-year power purchase agreements (PPAs) to the successful bidders.
“Projects [which are] under construction, projects which are not yet commissioned, and projects [which are] already commissioned but [which] do not have any long term PPA with any agency, and [which are] selling power on [a] short-term or merchant plant basis will be considered, [as long as] these projects are not already accepted under any other central or state schemes and do not have any obligations towards existing buyers,” stated the solar tender document.
Bidding for the solar sites closes on Feb. 10, 2025.
From pv magazine India.