MNRE blacklists 2 firms for malpractices in NTPC solar tenders

Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has blacklisted Emami Power Ltd and Oriental Sales Agencies (India) Pvt Ltd that debars them from participating in all its schemes for a period of three years.
Last month, state-run NTPC has informed the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy that Emami Power Ltd and Oriental Sales Agencies (India) Pvt Ltd were indulged in malpractices in the tenders for solar power projects by it under Phase-II of National Solar Mission, MNRE said in a statement.
Taking a note of this, the Ministry decided to blacklist the two companies for three years, the statement said.

This means that the firms have been debarred from participating in any schemes or programmes of the Ministry during the said period, it said, adding that a copy of this order has been sent to Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA), Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) and NTPC Ltd.
IREDA and SECI are implementing various solar energy initiatives of the government which has envisaged adding 100 GW of solar power generation capacity by 2022.
The statement also said that the action clearly indicates that government does not allow any malpractices by vendors to ensure quality of supplies.
NTPC has drafted its business plan of capacity addition of about 1,000 MW through renewable resources by 2017. In this endeavour, NTPC has already commissioned 360 MW solar PV projects.

It has envisioned 128GW of total power generation capacity by 2032, with 28 per cent from renewable energy sources.