81295153-INSolar-Promotion and Development of expansion plans for New and Innovative Solar PV applications in selected Indian Cities

Description

The Government of India has set for itself an ambitious target of achieving carbon neutrality by the year 2070. As per estimates, India will need 1,689 GW of solar capacity by 2050 and 5,630 GW of solar capacity by 2070 to achieve this target. However, two major challenges have to be overcome if these targets are to be achieved: - Presently, the major contributors for solar photovoltaic (PV) installations across India are ground-mounted and rooftop projects. Given that the availability of suitable roof-space is limited, and land is becoming increasingly scarce in India, these conventional methods of solar PV installations will not be sufficient to meet the targets. - Additionally, land use for energy generation is increasingly facing competition from other social economic usages directly affecting natural habitats and ecosystems. There is also a growing concern with regards to the scarcity of utilizable land, allocated for solar projects. This necessitates the need for exploring new innovative technology solutions for solar PV projects in India. Thus, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) in cooperation with GIZ is supporting the promotion of land-neutral and dual-use New & Innovative Solar Applications (NISA) across India. With MNRE, GIZ has shortlisted the following 7 New and Innovative Solar PV applications for further proliferation. - Agri PV - Canal Top PV - Urban PV - Road PV - Floating PV - Building Integrated PV - BIPV - Rail PV Under a separate activity, the GIZ project team has assessed the potential of the above-mentioned NISA across India by developing an online atlas (Solar Technology Application Atlas of India - STAAI), that serves as a web-based knowledge portal and an online interactive calculator for various NISAs. Additionally, the GIZ project team under its "RE Cities" activity supported four cities (Amritsar, Ayodhya, Gandhinagar and Thiruvananthapuram) for their development as 100% RE cities. Under this activity, the GIZ project team developed Energy Action Plans (EAP) and 100% RE roadmaps for the cities. Additionally, by proving the implementation support, the project team supported the proliferation of distributed solar PV systems within the cities. Considering its existing cooperation with the city stakeholders, GIZ in coordination with MNRE is releasing this services tender for providing consultancy and implementation support for the promotion of New and Innovative Solar PV Applications and development of capacity expansion plans in the eight cities across India. Lot 1: GIZ under its project "Innovative New Solar Areas" (INSolar, PN 20.2221.8-001.00) aims to provide consultancy and implementation support for the promotion and proliferation of New and Innovative Solar PV Applications in 8 cities across India. With MNRE, GIZ has shortlisted the following 7 New and Innovative Solar PV applications for further proliferation. - Agri PV - Canal Top PV - Urban PV - Road PV - Floating PV - Building Integrated PV - BIPV - Rail PV The support on "new and innovative solar PV applications - NISA" is promoted considering the following challenges. - Presently, the major contributors for solar photovoltaic (PV) installations across India are ground-mounted and rooftop projects. Given that the availability of suitable roof space is limited, and land is becoming increasingly scarce in India, these conventional methods of solar PV installations will not be sufficient to meet the targets. - Additionally, land use for energy generation is increasingly facing competition from other social economic usages directly affecting natural habitats and ecosystems. There is also a growing concern with regards to the scarcity of utilizable land, allocated for solar projects. The entire activity is divided into 4 outputs as follows. Output 1: Presentation and Agreement on the NISA technologies for implementation with the nodal agencies and stakeholders. Objective: Agreement with nodal agencies on a minimum of 2 (two) and up to 5 (five) NIS applications per city/ district for which the contractor in association with GIZ shall provide the implementation support. Output 2: Cooperation between European/ German and Indian City Stakeholders and Research Institutes. Objective: To develop cooperation between German and Indian City Stakeholders for sharing experiences on best practices and between research institutes for providing technical inputs on the NIS applications shortlisted in output 1. Output 3: To provide project implementation support for NISA projects as identified under Output 1 Objective: To provide project support for the implementation of the pilot NISA projects as identified with the assistance of the concerned stakeholders. Output 4: Capacity Expansion Plans and Dissemination of Learnings Objective: To share the learnings with stakeholders and development of framework for further promotion and scale-up of the NIS applications Please refer to the Terms of Reference for further detailed information.