{"id":1611,"date":"2014-02-10T12:29:34","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T06:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/blog\/?p=1611"},"modified":"2014-02-10T12:29:34","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T06:59:34","slug":"tamil-nadu-drafts-rpo-targets-for-fy15-fy16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/tamil-nadu-drafts-rpo-targets-for-fy15-fy16\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamil Nadu drafts RPO targets for FY15 &amp; FY16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission (TNERC) recently issued a draft order on RPO targets for FY15 &amp; FY16. The following are the targets proposed by the commission:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<table width=\"587\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<colgroup>\n<col width=\"104\" \/>\n<col width=\"203\" \/>\n<col width=\"280\" \/><\/colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"104\" height=\"22\">Column 1<\/td>\n<td width=\"203\">Column 2<\/td>\n<td width=\"280\">Column 3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"111\">Year<\/td>\n<td width=\"203\">Minimum quantum of total renewable purchase obligation in %age ( in terms of energy in kWh)<\/td>\n<td width=\"280\">Minimum quantum of solar renewable purchase obligation in %age out of total renewable purchase obligation mentioned in Column 2 (in terms of energy in kWh)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"22\">2014-15<\/td>\n<td>11.00%<\/td>\n<td>2.00%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"23\">2015-16<\/td>\n<td>11.00%<\/td>\n<td>2.00%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This implies that obligated entities (Distribution Licensees only) \u00a0in Tamil Nadu will now have to consume a minimum of 9% of non-solar power\/RECs and 2% of solar power\/RECs to comply with RPO targets in FY15 and FY16. The order is yet to be finalised and comments on the same have been invited no later than 24.02.2014.\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Solar RPO target is a highlight as it has been taken up from currently 0.05 % to 2 %. This shows TN&#8217;s strong commitment towards fostering solar generation in the state. Given the fact that a recent judgement by ApTel had set aside state&#8217;s ambitious solar policy (for a relevant blogpost &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/aptel-sets-aside-tamil-nadu-solar-policy\/\">click here<\/a>), this particular step from TNERC is laudable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Present draft order can be accessed <a href=\"http:\/\/tnerc.tn.nic.in\/regulation\/draft%20regulations\/2014\/Draft%20RPO%20Regulation-07-02-2014.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Previous final RPO order can read by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/tnerc.tn.nic.in\/regulation\/RPO\/RPO-19-2-English.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission (TNERC) recently issued a draft order on RPO targets for FY15 &amp; FY16. The following are the targets proposed by the commission:\u00a0 Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Year Minimum quantum of total renewable purchase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,110,68,57,148,100],"tags":[348,349,79,118,344,256,119,183,120],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611"}],"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=1611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}