The tender dated September 11 seeks bids for setting up a green hydrogen facility with a capacity of 10,000 tonnes per year on a build-own-operate (BOO) basis at the Panipat
refinery.
Bids can be submitted between November 4 and 11. Up to 30 companies participated in a pre-bid meeting on Friday. These included AMGreen, Sembcorp, Larsen & Toubro, Praxair, Siemens, John Cockerill and Greenko, people in the know said. This information could not be verified independently with the companies. The state-run refiner did not reply to an email seeking comments.
This time, IOC has introduced new technical qualification criteria. To be eligible, bidders should have won the right to set up electrolyser manufacturing and/or green hydrogen production capacity under Mode-1 of the Strategic Interventions for Green Hydrogen Transition (SIGHT) Programme from the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.
Bidders should have also executed, on a BOO or BOOT (build-own-operate-transfer) basis, a refinery, petchem or fertiliser facility with a commercial hydrogen production facility in the last 15 years. This facility should have been in continuous commercial operation for at least one year.
In the previous scrapped tender, this figure was 12 years.
“This time IOC has also opened the green hydrogen project to players in the SIGHT scheme. This could bring in some experienced entities,” said an official from one of the companies that participated in the pre-bid. In the past two attempts, IOC had to cancel the bids as there was little interest from the industry.
Industry players had accused the company of skewing the tender in favour of GH4India, an equally owned joint venture among IOC, renewable energy company ReNew and engineering major L&T. The tender also mentions that if the bidder signs a memorandum of understanding with another company to meet the technical qualifications, it should submit a consent letter from the partner that the MoU is valid for at least eight years from the date of the first hydrogen delivery
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