Pace Digitek, Solarworld, Enviro Infra win NTPC BESS orders

NTPC Limited has awarded battery energy storage system (BESS) engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts worth a combined Rs 1,185 crore to three listed companies. The awards, issued on March 30, 2026, are part of an ongoing procurement drive that saw the company allocate over Rs 1,391 crore in BESS orders to another set of firms two days earlier.

The latest contracts have been awarded to Pace Digitek Limited, Solarworld Energy Solutions Limited, and Enviro Infra Engineers Limited. Solarworld and Enviro Infra had also secured orders in the earlier round. All contracts fall under the same Lot-2 bid document and carry a standard execution timeline of 15 months.

Project scope and contract allocation

Pace Digitek Limited secured the largest order, valued at Rs 494.54 crore (excluding GST), for BESS implementation at Nabinagar Super Thermal Power Station in Bihar. The scope includes equipment supply on an ex-works basis, full installation with civil, structural and architectural works, testing, pre-commissioning, commissioning and guarantee tests, along with 11 years of comprehensive annual maintenance over the system’s design life.

Solarworld Energy Solutions Limited received two orders totalling about Rs 285.13 crore (excluding taxes). The first, worth Rs 108.22 crore, is for a 50 MW/100 MWh BESS at Feroze Gandhi Unchahar Thermal Power Station in Uttar Pradesh. The second, valued at Rs 176.91 crore, is for a 75 MW/150 MWh system at Solapur Super Thermal Power Station in Maharashtra.

Solarworld had earlier secured a Rs 314.26 crore contract at Solapur under Lot-1 for a 132 MW/264 MWh system. With the latest award, its total NTPC BESS pipeline at Solapur exceeds Rs 491 crore.

Enviro Infra Engineers Limited was awarded a Rs 405.71 crore contract (excluding GST) for BESS deployment at Tanda Super Thermal Power Station in Uttar Pradesh and Bongaigaon Thermal Power Station in Assam. The scope includes end-to-end execution and 11 years of maintenance after performance guarantee tests. The company had earlier secured Rs 664.33 crore for projects at Kudgi and Ramagundam thermal stations. 

All contracts are domestic and awarded to unrelated parties, with none classified as related party transactions.

Including the earlier round, NTPC has committed over Rs 2,576 crore across at least six listed firms for grid-scale BESS deployment. The projects span thermal stations in at least seven states. The company is distributing execution across multiple vendors rather than concentrating contracts with a single contractor.

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