The Ministry of Power had published the Draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2020 for comments on April 17, 2020. This post aims to collate the opinions on the topic by experts to understand the implications of the proposed changes. Council on Energy, Environment and Water has a blog series analyzing the various aspects of the proposed amendments. […]
Draft Electricity Act (Amendment) Bill 2020 – Perspectives Read More »
As part of its annual revision of Renewable Energy tariffs, the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission(CERC) has finalized a generic levellised generation tariff for solar PV for FY 2015-16 as Rs. 7.04/kWh(without Accelerated Depreciation) and Rs. 6.35/kWh(with Accelerated Depreciation). This tariff was arrived at on the basis of the capital cost of Rs. 6.0585 Crores/MW. The capital
The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission(CERC) has finally come up with a solution to revive the dysfunctional solar REC markets by addressing the biggest challenge – the high price band for Solar RECs.(The inventory of RECs – non-solar and solar – crossed the 1 Crore mark at the end of the last trading session on September
Solar REC prices proposed to be cut by about 60%; Vintage Multipliers to be introduced Read More »
The Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission(DERC) has published the implementation guidelines for net-metering systems. It may be recalled that the DERC had notified the regulations for Net Metering on September 2, 2014(more details here). Some of the highlights are reproduced below. a. Distribution Transformer level capacity to be offered for Connecting Renewable EnergySystem for Net Metering
In a major boost for Solar Power Generators, the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission(KERC) has released an order on exemption of Wheeling Charges, Banking Charges and cross subsidy surcharge for a period of ten years from the date of commissioning a plant. This is applicable for all solar power generators in the State achieving commercial operation date (CoD)
Haryana Power Purchase Centre(HPPC), on behalf of the Haryana Distribution companies(Discom) Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam Limited (UHBVN) & Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam Limited( DHBVN), has released tender documents for 50 MW of solar PV capacity. The tender was released in order to meet the Renewable Purchase Obligations(RPOs).The highlights of the tender are as follows. 1.
The Tamil Nadu Electrcity Regulatory Commission (TNERC) in a notice issued yesterday has proposed to amend the solar component of the RPO under the Renewable Purchase Obligations 2010 to state that the solar component of the state’s RPO would be increased to 2% from 0.05% earlier. TNERC has specified that the total RPO enforced in
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As part of its annual revision of Renewable Energy tariffs, the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission(CERC) has proposed a generic levellised generation tariff for solar PV for FY 2014-15 as Rs. 6.99/kWh(without Accelerated Depreciation) and Rs. 6.33/kWh(with Accelerated Depreciation). This tariff was arrived at, on the basis of the capital cost of Rs. 6.12 Crore/MWp. This
The solar capacity in India crossed the 2 GW milestone in the third quarter of 2013 with the addition of about 900 MW (as of October 2013) driven primarily through the capacity additions under the Batch II of Phase 1 of the National Solar Mission. In addition to this, a few large scale power plants
In the REC trading for the month of November 2013, the trade volume of non-solar doubled from the previous month and touched an all time high this year.However, Solar REC sales dropped by 22% from October 2013. Both non-solar and solar RECs were traded at their floor prices(Rs. 1500/REC and Rs. 9300/REC respectively) in both
REC Trading November 2013 – Solar REC trade drops; Non-Solar REC trade doubles Read More »
