Patna division: 170 kW on tender

Verde Solaire installed a 170 kW solar system at the Patna division of an institutional customer, on an order won through the customer's own tender. The customer, Mr. A. K. Yadav, wrote afterwards that the system "is working well and is giving desired generation".

The customer's review confirms the capacity, location and route to the order. Commissioning year, equipment models, measured annual generation and tariff details were not included, so this case study focuses on the confirmed project record.

What is published

• Capacity: 170 kW.
• Place: the customer's Patna division, in Bihar.
• How the order came: a tender floated by the customer, which Verde Solaire won.
• Result, in the customer's words: working well and giving the desired generation.
• Who said so: Mr. A. K. Yadav, on Verde Solaire's testimonials page.

The phrase "our Patna division" tells you the customer is an organisation with more than one division, not a single site. Its name does not appear on the testimonials page, so it does not appear here either.

Why a tender-based order is worth reading about

Public bodies and large organisations rarely pick a solar installer over a phone call. They publish a tender that fixes the capacity, the technical specification, the warranty terms and the completion period, and bidders are first checked against those conditions before price is opened. An award of 170 kW by that route says as much about the bidder's paperwork as about its engineering: registrations, earlier work of similar size, financial standing and the ability to commission on a fixed date.

Verde Solaire's published credentials are the ones such evaluations examine. The company is ISO 9001:2015 certified, has delivered more than 50 MW of solar projects, works with a team with combined experience of more than 2,000 MW, and is registered with IOCL, UHBVN, DHBVN, CEL, IPGCL, BRPL and CREST for solar power plant installations.

Where 170 kW sits among the company's other work

At 170 kW the Patna plant belongs with the company's other published institutional and commercial projects rather than with its rooftop homes. The closest in size are the 147 kW plant at C-MET Pune, delivered through CPWD, and the 200 kW plant for Jama Corporation in Kanpur. The smaller institutional jobs, 20 kW at NISST in Punjab and 35 kW at a college in Greater Noida, show the same pattern of public and educational buyers.

At an institutional site, a plant of this size usually serves the daytime load of offices, workshops or pumps, with any surplus handled under the state's net-metering or feed-in rules. Whether the Patna plant exports to the grid, and on what terms with the Bihar electricity board, was not published, so no claim is made about it.

What "giving desired generation" means

A tender for a solar plant normally states the generation the installer must deliver, as units per kW per year or as a capacity utilisation factor, and the customer measures the plant against that figure after commissioning. A customer writing that the plant gives the desired generation is saying that it meets the number in the contract. It is a stronger statement than "working", because it is a comparison with a target the customer set, not a comment on whether the inverter is on.

Verde Solaire's published planning yields are for Delhi and Noida and do not transfer to Bihar, where the irradiation, dust and monsoon pattern differ. This page therefore gives no units figure for Patna.

For institutions planning a tender

If your organisation is preparing a tender for a plant of this size, the institutions page explains how Verde Solaire works with public buyers, and the commercial payback tool gives a first estimate from your sanctioned load and tariff. Other customer reviews, including Mr. Yadav's, are on the reviews page.