Jaipur: With the government Haryana and Punjab allow the benefits of net measurement for solar roof plants with a burden of up to 500kW, the pressure is at the Rajasthan (RERC) electricity regulation commission to follow it before the current regime ended in September.
Following the rules decision by last year’s Union Minister of Power, RCC also limits the burden of net measurement for solar roof projects up to 10KW from 1mW before, but has delayed its implementation until September 15 after the industry protested.
After the UNI Power Ministry allowed net measurement to 500 kW, the energy regulator in Haryana and Punjab had notified that it allowed the same capacity for clean metering but the RCC had not received a telephone even when the September 15 deadline was far away.
Representatives from Rajasthan Solar Association said they had written a letter to the Minister of Energy, Secretary of the Secretary of the Regulatory and Rajasthan Energy Energy Corporation to review the criteria of 10kW and increase expenses of up to 500kW as proposed in the draft regulations by the Department of Power.
Prateek Agarwal, Vicepressident of RSA said, “During our meeting with the Energy Minister BD Kalla, he said the regulator had to follow the rules of MP 500KW because it believes that if customers with higher migrate to solar roofs, they will lose income.
However, Agarwal said that the solar roof segment was very small in the overall scheme of the diskom.
Under clean metering, consumers use a cheaper solar power of the roof than expensive discom power.
According to the new rules, the project above 10KW will be under the billing or gross measurement which requires them to pay normal electricity levels to cancel even though they use cheap power from the roof plants.
The diskomes will pay the roof project that the owner under the gross metering at the level found through auction along with a 25% incentive which is estimated to be much lower than the discom level around Rs 8 per unit.