{"id":2006,"date":"2014-07-16T18:07:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T12:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/blog\/?p=2006"},"modified":"2014-07-16T18:07:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T12:37:19","slug":"merc-new-distribution-open-access-regulation-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/merc-new-distribution-open-access-regulation-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"MERC: New Distribution Open Access Regulation, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MERC (Maharashtra Electricity regulatory Commission) through an order on 25th June 2014 has made the new regulation for distribution open access in the state of Maharashtra. MERC in its new regulation has added 20 new definitions than the Distribution open access regulation 2005.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A comparative analysis with Open Access Regulation 2005 is below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/44.224.164.21\/new__w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MERC_Distribution-Open-Access-Regulation-2014.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2007\" title=\"MERC_Distribution Open Access Regulation 2014\" src=\"http:\/\/44.224.164.21\/new__w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MERC_Distribution-Open-Access-Regulation-2014.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"621\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MERC_Distribution-Open-Access-Regulation-2014.png 621w, https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MERC_Distribution-Open-Access-Regulation-2014-300x252.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>The open access consumers shall pay Wheeling Charges, Cross Subsidy Surcharge and Additional Surcharge as specified by the state commission in its relevant orders.<\/li>\n<li>The open access consumer shall also bear the Transmission and Distribution (only technical losses) losses as determined by the commission.<\/li>\n<li>Open Access Consumer having a load of 5 MW or above shall pay Reactive Energy Charges and shall also pay Standby charges for drawal of power.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">More details on the Regulation can be accessed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercindia.org.in\/pdf\/Order%2058%2042\/Distribution%20Open%20Access%20regulations%202014%20(E).pdf\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Previous Open Access Regulation, 2005 can be accessed <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mercindia.org.in\/pdf\/Order%2058%2042\/16_MERC_Distribution%20Open%20Access_Eng.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contributed By: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/profile\/view?id=111367478&amp;authType=OUT_OF_NETWORK&amp;authToken=lMej&amp;locale=en_US&amp;trk=tyah2&amp;trkInfo=tarId%3A1405429048885%2Ctas%3Adheeraj%2Cidx%3A1-1-1\">Dheeraj Babariya<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MERC (Maharashtra Electricity regulatory Commission) through an order on 25th June 2014 has made the new regulation for distribution open access in the state of Maharashtra. MERC in its new regulation has added 20 new definitions than the Distribution open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[431,71,110,445,437],"tags":[114,115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006"}],"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=2006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}