Urja Vikas issues fresh tender for 3,200 MW thermal projects
Jaipur, December 17, 2024.
After cancelling the joint tender for solar and thermal projects of 11,200 MW, Urja Vikas and IT Services Ltd, the power procuring entity of the state govt, issued Monday a notice inviting tender for only thermal capacity of 3,200 MW.
In the new tender, the controversial solar component of 8,000 MW was dropped. Instead, the state agency is currently banking on the decentralised projects of smaller capacities awarded under the Kusum C, A and PM Surya Ghar schemes by the three discoms to provide power locally at the sub-station level.
Earlier, the single tender for both thermal and solar (3,200 MW and 8,000 MW, respectively) totalling 11,200 MW courted controversy as the industry expressed apprehension that pure-play solar or thermal firms would be automat...
