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Financial Express Lucknow
|April 21, 2025
DISCOMS ARE TAKING time in understanding whether generation profiles fit into their scheme of things.
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Or else, they may be looking for tariff reliefs.
While the government has been taking measures to solve these issues, hurdles remain. In October 2023, the ministry of power, under the Energy Conservation Act, notified year-wise Renewable Purchase Obligations (RPOs) extending till 2030. This was a pioneering move to buttress the commercial viability of RE units with legal backing. Separate RPO targets were set for solar, wind, hydro, and distributed RE.
Additionally, in 2022, the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission issued Connectivity and General Network Access to the Inter-State Transmission (IST) System Regulations, providing non-discriminatory open access to generating companies for IST through general network access (GNA). "After the introduction of these regulations, a lot of GNA got awarded but there is a mismatch between (PPA) winners and GNA awardees," Khandelwal says.
Actual commissioning of evacuation is not visible in the near future and that is going to delay the commissioning of projects on the ground, industry watchers believe. There is a significant amount of overlap as not all GNA awardees are PPA winners. Some of the PPA winners are actually waiting for evacuation.
This story is from the April 21, 2025 edition of Financial Express Lucknow.
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