Power Ministry is seeking to amend the National Tariff Policy to facilitates accommodation of provisions related to current developments in Open Access, Renewable Energy, Hydro Projects etc and issued draft amendments for the same on 26th September.
Earlier the last date for submission of comments from Stake Holders was till 21st October however the same has been extended till 6th December now.
The major changes proposed by MoP are as follows:
- Re-examination clause of the cross subsidy support provision for the Below Poverty Line consumers have been removed.
- Obligation for specifying the road map for reduction of Cross Subsidies have been directed to SERCs.
- Charges on account of outages by Generator should be mutually decided in case of Open Access rather than by the Commissions.
- Competitive Bidding Provisions rather than the current Preferential Tariff Provision have been specified for the long terms purchase from Renewable Energy sources by Discoms.
- Lon germ trajectory for RPO to be specified by the States.
- Provision for the the graded reduction in % of allowable merchant sales attributable to the developer shall be introduced in case of Hydro Projects.
Complete list of amendments along with Justifications can be viewed and downloaded from here.
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