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India’s Numaligarh Refinery issues tender for green hydrogen generation unit
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Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL), a public sector undertaking under the Indian Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, has recently initiated a tender process for establishing a 10,000-tonne per year green hydrogen generation unit at its facility in Numaligarh, Golaghat district in the Indian state of Assam.
As per the official bidding notification, NRL calls for project developer and operator for installation of a green hydrogen production unit with an installed capacity of 10,000 MT per annum on Build, Own, Operate (BOO) basis to meet the requirement of Gaseous Green Hydrogen (GGH) at the refinery for a period of 25 years.
The deadline for the submission of the bidding application is determined as 13th September, 2024. It is mandatory for every bidder to have a minimum of $23 million in average annual turnover in one of the three previous financial years.
Evaluation criteria for the bidding process will be based on rate per kilogram (kg) of GGH quoted by the bidder at the delivery point for the procurement of the green hydrogen.
NRL has adopted a single stage, two-part bidding process for selection of the successful bidder for the award of the green hydrogen project. A separate techno-commercial or unpriced bid for fulfilling the technical eligibility criteria and financial eligibility criteria need to be submitted, according to the tender document.
The responsibility of procuring land for the said project is with the selected bidder, so as the arrangement for the import of power for running the commissioned green hydrogen production unit for NRL.
After the announcement of ₹19,744 crore National Green Hydrogen Mission last year, India also recently announced the second tranche of its subsidy scheme for the production of green hydrogen in the country to a tune of 450,000 tonnes of hydrogen per year.
India defines green hydrogen: less than 2kg emissions for 1kg H2
The Indian government notified the country's green hydrogen standard over the weekend, outlining emission norms that must be met for hydrogen to be classified as 'green', or coming from renewable sources.
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