{"id":3683,"date":"2016-04-12T11:45:30","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T06:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/blog\/?p=3683"},"modified":"2016-04-12T11:45:30","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T06:15:30","slug":"maharashtra-published-rpo-regulations-for-fy-2016-17-to-fy-2019-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/maharashtra-published-rpo-regulations-for-fy-2016-17-to-fy-2019-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Maharashtra Published RPO Regulations for FY 2016-17 to FY 2019-20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maharashtra published RPO regulations covering the period FY 2016-17 to FY 2019-20. The highlights of the regulation are:<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>RPO % in FY 2016-17 is 11% in total (10% non-solar and 1% solar). This will increase to 15% by FY 2019-20 (11.5% non-solar and 3.5% solar)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The regulations are broadly in line with the standard regulations of RPO across various states, except the following clauses:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>RPO is no longer exempt on co-generation power. The Statement of Reasons (SOR) accompanying the regulations refers to the National Tariff Policy as a reason for removing exemption from RPO on co-gen power.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>RPO is applicable only on consumption of conventional power. This is a significant deviation as the Electricity Act\/ CERC\/ other states require calculation of RPO on \u201ctotal consumption\u201d. By leaving out RE power from RPO calculation, Maharashtra risks providing double benefit to RE generators \u2013 it is possible that a consumer that consumes power from RE sources does not attract RPO provisions and at the same time claims offset of such RE power towards meeting RPO on conventional power.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>RPO is applicable on CPPs with installed capacity of 5MW or more and open access consumers with a contract demand of 5 MVA or more. This will leave out significant open access and captive capacity form the ambit of RPO applicability.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The regulation can be accessed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercindia.org.in\/pdf\/Order%2058%2042\/Draft%20MERC(RPO-REC)%20Regulation%202016_24%20Dec%202015.pdf\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maharashtra published RPO regulations covering the period FY 2016-17 to FY 2019-20. The highlights of the regulation are: &nbsp; RPO % in FY 2016-17 is 11% in total (10% non-solar and 1% solar). This will increase to 15% by FY [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[462,55,56,66,110,68,464,57,100],"tags":[115,118],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683"}],"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=3683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}