Soon, rooftop solar power projects for 5 more cities

Vadodara, Mehsana, Rajkot, Bhavnagar and Surat to replicate the Gandhinagar model, will generate 25MW power

After Gandhinagar, five more cities in the state, including Vadodara, Mehsana, Rajkot, Bhavnagar and Surat, will soon get rooftop solar power projects.

These projects will have a combined power generating capacity of 25 MW.

The state-run Gujarat Power Corporation Limited, in an advertisement, has invited bidders to buy the "request for proposal" (RFP) documents for these five projects.

The issuance of draft RFT comes at a time when the state government is currently developing two pilot solar rooftop projects of 2.5 MW each in Gandhinagar under a public private partnership (PPP) model.

"Following the successful implementation of the PPP transactions for the two Gandhinagar pilot projects, the government has decided to replicate the rooftop solar project in five other cities of Gujarat," states the introduction of the RFP.

These five projects are divided into three packages and the selected bidders will develop one of the three packages, the advertisement states.

The first package is for putting up a 5 MW project each in Vadodara and Mehsana.

The second for a 6.5 MW project in Rajkot and a 3.5 MW in Bhavnagar and the third is for a 5 MW project in Surat. All these projects will be connected to the grid.

World Bank arm, International Finance Corporation (IFC), is the advisor to Gujarat for these projects.

The project developers will rent rooftops, put up the plants and sell the power to the state electricity distribution company, Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Ltd and its subsidiaries.

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