Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL) and Adani Energy Solutions Ltd (AESL) have qualified for opening of initial price bids for the Jam Khambhaliya pooling station augmentation scheme in Gujarat.
PFC Consulting Ltd (PFCCL) is acting as the bid process coordinator for this ISTS scheme housed under “Jam Khambhaliya Transmission Ltd” and termed as “Augmentation of transformation capacity at Jam Khambhaliya PS (GIS)”.
In per the normal practice, once the initial price bids are opened, the bidding process will potentially move to the e-reverse auction (e-RA) stage. The winner will be decided on the basis of the final price bids, emerging at the end of the e-RA.
Estimated to cost around Rs.310 crore, this ISTS scheme aims at augmentation of transformation capacity of the existing Jam Khambhaliya GIS Pooling Station (PS) in Gujarat. Among several other elements including bus sections and line bays, this scheme will augment capacity at the said PS by addition of four 1×500 MVA, 400/220kV ICTs, taking the total number of such ICTs at the Jam Khambhaliya PS to nine. The tentative overall completion period of the scheme is 21 months with some elements scheduled to commission in 18 months.
The project aims to support enhanced renewable energy injection from solar and wind farms in the Dwarka and other RE-rich regions of Gujarat into the Jam Khambhaliya Pooling Station.
Commissioned in November 2022
The existing Jam Khambhaliya Pooling Station in Gujarat was developed by “Jam Khambaliya Transco Ltd” – a wholly-owned subsidiary of Adani Energy Solutions Ltd (AESL). AESL won this project under the TBCB route and fully commissioned it in November 2022. The project involved setting up of the Khambhaliya GIS Pooling Station with transformation capacity of 2,000 MVA through four 1×500 MVA, 400/200kV ICTs. Besides, one 1×500 MVA, 400/220kV ICT at Coastal Gujarat Power Ltd’s (Tata Power subsidiary) Mundra switchyard and a 38-ckm double-circuit 400kV line extension was also part of the project.
Change in implementation mode
It was earlier decided that the augmentation scheme as presently envisaged under “Jam Khambhaliya Transmission Ltd” would be developed as two components. One of these (then denoted as “Part B”) was awarded to Jam Khambaliya Transco Ltd (JKTL), under the regulated tariff mechanism (RTM). In fact, a letter to this effect was also issued to JKTL. However, the National Committee on Transmission (NCT) later decided to revoke the earlier plan and develop the entire augmentation scheme under the TBCB route.
Also read: PGCIL to implement two ISTS schemes in RTM mode
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