{"id":4600,"date":"2018-12-07T15:26:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T09:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/blog\/?p=4600"},"modified":"2018-12-07T15:26:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T09:56:01","slug":"mnre-proposes-amendments-in-the-biomass-co-generation-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/mnre-proposes-amendments-in-the-biomass-co-generation-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"MNRE proposes amendments in the biomass co-generation policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MNRE has been working towards supporting biomass-based cogeneration projects in the country and had introduced a scheme for the same in May 2018. The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mnre.gov.in\/sites\/default\/files\/schemes\/scheme-Biomass-11052018.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">scheme<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> provides CFA of INR 25 Lakhs\/MW for bagasse cogeneration projects and INR 50 Lakh\/MW for non-bagasse cogeneration projects.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently MNRE has made two <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mnre.gov.in\/sites\/default\/files\/webform\/notices\/Schme%20support%20to%20Biomass%20%282%29.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">amendments<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in clause 5 &amp; 6 of the scheme to provide more financial support to the projects. The changes are as follows:<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/44.224.164.21\/new__w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/07-dec-2018.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4601\" src=\"http:\/\/44.224.164.21\/new__w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/07-dec-2018.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"502\" height=\"476\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apart from this, The Madhya Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (MPERC) has rejected two petitions filed by owners of bagasse-based cogeneration projects against the imposition of cross-subsidy surcharge for self-consumption of power in Madhya Pradesh.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The petitioners <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mperc.nic.in\/301118-PNo-37-2018.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shri Durga Khandsari Sugar Mills<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mperc.nic.in\/301118-PNo-38-2018.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Narmada Sugar Private Limited<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> had approached MPERC to not impose cross-subsidy on self-consumption of the electricity from its own bagasse-based cogenerating stations. However, both the plaintiffs were selling the majority of its generated electricty via open access and less than 51% was being self-consumed. Hence, the commission was of the opinion that whole power supplied by the cogeneration plants of the petitioners will be treated as if the power is supplied by a generating company.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MNRE has also invited an Expression of Interest (EOI) for tapping the potential of biomass and bagasse co-generation in the country as of October 2018, to promote the source of energy.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNRE has been working towards supporting biomass-based cogeneration projects in the country and had introduced a scheme for the same in May 2018. The scheme provides CFA of INR 25 Lakhs\/MW for bagasse cogeneration projects and INR 50 Lakh\/MW for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[195,487,842,870],"tags":[941,942,206,843],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600"}],"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=4600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reconnectenergy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}