MPERC announces Amendments to the (Forecasting, Scheduling, Deviation Settlement Mechanism and related matters of Wind and Solar Regulations, 2018
Madhya Pradesh has recently announced the first amendment of the (Forecasting, Scheduling, Deviation Settlement Mechanism and related matters of Wind and Solar generating stations) Regulations, 2018. The commission has invited comments for the same till 14th March 2019. The Commission shall arrange a public hearing, if required, on 15.03.2019 at 11:30 AM at Commission’s Office.
The regulatory commission has also issued the procedure detailed the operating procedure for implementation of MPERC (forecasting, scheduling, deviation settlement mechanism and related matters of wind and solar generating stations) regulations, 2018.
The summary of the amendments in the DSM regulations are as follows:
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Principal regulation |
Proposed amendments |
| Regulation 2 (g) ‘Deviation’ in a time-block for a Seller means its total actual injection minus its total scheduled generation and for a Buyer means its total actual drawal minus its total scheduled drawal, and shall form part of the State Energy Accounts to be prepared by SLDC. |
Regulation 2 (g) ‘Deviation’ in a time block for a Seller means its total actual injection minus its total scheduled generation.” |
| Regulation 2 (j) “Gaming’ in relation to these regulations, shall mean intentional misdeclaration of declared capacity by any seller in order to make an undue commercial gain through Charge for Deviations; | Regulation 2 (j) the word ‘declared’ shall be substituted by the word ‘available’. |
| Regulation 3 (2) These Regulations shall be applicable to Seller(s) and Buyer(s) involved in the transactions facilitated through short-term open access or medium-term open access or long-term open access in intra-state transmission or distribution of electricity (including intra-state wheeling of power), as the case may be, in respect of all wind generators having a combined installed capacity of 10 MW and above and solar generators with an installed capacity of 5 MW and above including those connected via pooling stations and selling power within or outside the State. |
Regulation 3 (2) … Provided that these Regulations shall also be applicable to all wind & solar generators selling power outside the State under open access and having a combined installed capacity of 1 MW and above.” |
| Regulation 4 (7) All State Entities shall make necessary arrangements for putting up suitable meters, capable of recording energy flows at 15-minutes intervals, at the points of injection and drawal. |
Regulation 4 (7) …providing AMR facility for data downloading remotely at SLDC.” |
| New added clauses 4(8) & (9) “ (8) All wind or solar generators including those connected via pooling station shall have to appoint a common QCA which may be one of the generators or mutually agreed agency. If generators fail to appoint a common QCA within a period of one month from the date of issue of notice by SLDC, then SLDC shall advise the concerned licensee for disconnection of pooling station/feeder from the grid. The licensee shall disconnect the pooling station/feeder from the Grid under intimation to SLDC. (9) In case more than 50% wind or solar generators including those connected via pooling station have consented for a particular QCA, then remaining generators shall have to appoint the same agency as a QCA. In case of non-compliance of SLDC instructions, SLDC shall advise the concerned licensee to disconnect the defaulting generators from the Grid The licensee shall disconnect the pooling station/feeder from the Grid under intimation to SLDC.” |
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| Regulation 5 (c) Settlement Period: Preparation and settlement of ‘Deviation Pool Accounts’ shall be undertaken on weekly basis coinciding with mechanism followed for regional energy accounts. |
…Till such time, but not later than three months from the date of the notification, the complete weekly ABT meter data is received through AMR System or manual data download by MRI, the State Load Despatch Centre shall prepare and issue Deviation Charges Account on monthly basis. |
| Regulation 10(1) Governance Structure and constitution of State Power Committee (1) Within three months from the date of notification of these Regulations, the State Load Despatch Centre shall formulate Operating Procedures and Business Rules for the constitution of State Power Committee, which shall be approved by the State Commission |
Regulation 10(1) is substituted as under: “(1) Within two months from the date of notification of these Regulations, the State Load Despatch Centre shall formulate “a State Power Committee and its functions” and submit to the for approval.”Commission |