MPERC Amendment in RE Generation Regulation, 2010
Madhya Pradesh Electricity regulatory Commission (MPERC) on 10th September 2014 has ordered amendment for its Cogeneration and Generation of Electricity from Renewable Sources of Energy Regulation 2010. MPERC earlier invited the comments and suggestion and held a public hearing on 9th September 2014.
According to the new amendment the scheduling of Wind power plant with capacities of 10 MW and above and the solar power plants with capacities 5 MW and above shall be mandatory, whereas in principle regulation of 2010 this was missing.
On the other hand, MPERC had proposed 3nd amendment to MPERC (Cogeneration and generation of electricity from renewable sources of energy) Regulations, 2010, in which it wanted to include energy generated from fossil fuel based Co-generation plant under RPO compliance, and exclude such energy generated from availing REC’s. After hearing various stakeholders, MPERC finally decided to drop this amendment with regard to Co-generation, and approved the afore mentioned amendment regarding scheduling of RE power.
Earlier CERC in its order on 06th January 2014(Refer), suspended the RRF mechanism but directed the RE Generators to continue the scheduling and forecasting according to the previous regulation.
The MPERC Draft can be accessed here.
Contributed by Dheeraj Babariya.