bids and tenders

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South Africa’s state-owned energy utility, Eskom, has issued a request for proposals for 291MW of solar capacity.

The Jamaican government has announced a tender to procure renewables of up to 100MW.

Indian government-owned NTPC Renewable Energy has launched a bidding process seeking 310MW of floating and ground-mounted solar PV in India.

Germany has launched a new tender which seeks to add 1.95GW of utility-scale solar PV capacity on arable land and grassland in disadvantaged areas.

NTPC Renewable Energy (NTPC REL), the renewables arm of Indian state-owned power giant NTPC, has invited bids for balance of system (BOS) packages with land anywhere in India for 1000MW worth of projects within the Interstate Transmission System (ISTS) connected solar projects programme

Bolsonaro government postpones renewables-only tender (A-4) and auction also open to conventional sources (A-6), putting at least nearly 30GW of solar bids in the air.

Second round of the Melbourne Renewable Energy Project (MREP) launches after round one spurred the development of an 80MW wind farm in Western Australia.

The project will be contracted to Coal India Ltd's subsidiary South Eastern Coalfields Ltd for 25 years, and help the coal major reach its national aim of becoming a "net-zero energy company."

The utility said the winning bid of $1.6953 cents per kWh is a world record for "PV solar power projects based on the IPP model."