{"id":1401,"date":"2013-11-01T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T10:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/blog\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2013-11-01T15:58:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T10:28:00","slug":"changes-to-electricity-act-proposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/changes-to-electricity-act-proposed\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes to Electricity Act Proposed"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Ministry of Power (MOP) recently made public\u00a0a document that proposes various changes to the Electricity Act, 2003<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(EA). The below article provides a quick summary of the proposed changes:<\/p>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \u201c\u201drenewable energy sources\u201d means renewable sources such as small hydro, wind, solar including its integration with combined cycle, biomass, bio fuel co-generation, urban or municipal waste and other such sources as approved by the Central Government in consultation with MNRE from time to time prescribed.\u201d<\/p>\n \n The proposed amendment leaves out some very important changes from the renewable energy perspective.<\/p>\n \n At present RPO trajectory is defined in the National Action Plan for Climate Change. Solar RPO trajectory was also included in the National Tariff Policy by way of an amendment. If these policies indeed become \u2018binding\u2019 then it will pave the way for easier changes and implementation of RPO and development of REC markets. Nevertheless, in our opinion, a direct reference in the EA would have been stronger. And the need for the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Ministry of Power (MOP) recently made public\u00a0a document that proposes various changes to the Electricity Act, 2003\u00a0(EA). The below article provides a quick summary of the proposed changes: The current role of the Distribution Licensee has been broken up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[71,56],"tags":[133,297,74,117,64,67,78,79],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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