CERC notifies sixth amendment of inter-state sharing regulations of transmission charges & losses, 2010

In a recent notification issued by CERC on the (Sharing of inter-State Transmission Charges and Losses) amendments have been announced. These are the sixth amendment in the regulations and will come into effect in retrospection from 31.12.2018.  The below-stated amendments have come been notified in retrospection and will only be applicable to projects whose generation capacity has been declared under the stated commercial operation period.
The amendments in the regulations are as follow:

• In regulation (7) of the principal regulations subclass (h) & subclass (z) the date “3.12.2019” will be substituted with “12.2.2018.
• A new sub-clause (aa) will be included in Clause (1) of Regulation 7 of Principal Regulations as under:-  “ No transmission charges and losses for the use of ISTS network shall be payable for the generation based on solar and wind power resources for a period of 25 years from the date of commercial operation of such generation projects if they fulfill the following conditions.”

Provided such generation capacity has to be awarded projects via a competitive bidding process & should have been declared under commercial operations between 13.2.2018 till 31.3.2022.
Also, Power Purchase Agreement(s) should have been executed for sale of such generation capacity to all entities including Distribution Companies for compliance of their renewable purchase obligations.”