Heavy Industries Ministry receives 7 bids for Global Tender for giga scale Advanced Chemistry Cell manufacturing facilities
The tender is for cumulative 10 GWh capacity under PLI ACC
scheme
The scheme received an overwhelming response from industry
as bids received is 7 times the manufacturing capacity of 10 GWh to be awarded
PLI ACC Scheme promotes manufacturing of technology agnostic Advanced Chemistry
Cells in India
Ministry of
Heavy Industries (MHI) has
received bids from seven bidders under global tender for the re-bidding of
Production Linked Incentives (PLI) for 10 GWh Advanced Chemistry Cell (ACC)
manufacturing announced on 24th January 2024. The pre-bid meeting was held
on 12th February 2024. The
last date for receiving applications was 22nd April
2024 on CPP portal and the Technical Bids opened on 23rd April 2024.
The list of bidders
(in alphabetical order)
who have submitted bids in response to this tender are ACME Cleantech Solutions
Private Limited, Amara Raja Advanced Cell Technologies Private Limited, Anvi
Power Industries Private Limited, JSW Neo Energy Limited, Reliance Industries
Limited, Lucas TVS Limited, and Waaree Energies Limited for a cumulative
capacity of 70 GWh.
In May 2021, the
Cabinet had approved the technology agnostic PLI Scheme on 'National Programme
on Advanced Chemistry Cell (ACC) Battery Storage’ for achieving manufacturing
capacity of Fifty (50) Giga Watt hours (GWh) of ACC with an outlay of Rs.18,100
Crore. The first round of the ACC PLI bidding was concluded in March 2022, and
three beneficiary firms were allocated a total capacity of Thirty (30) Giga
Watt hours (GWh), and the program agreement with selected beneficiary firms was
signed in July 2022.
Further, MHI,
Government of India had released Request for Proposal (RfP) on 24th January 2024 for Shortlisting and Selection of
bidders under the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme 'National Programme
on Advanced Chemistry Cell (ACC) Battery Storage’ for setting up of ACC
Manufacturing Units with a total manufacturing capacity of 10 Giga Watt Hour
(GWh) with maximum budgetary outlay of Rs. 3,620 crore.