TNERC directs Tangedco to clear pending solar rooftop applications
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Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission (TNERC) has directed Tangedco to course of all pending applications from High Tension (HT) industries for organising rooftop solar methods and take motion to energise these connections as per the present provision.
The energy regulator additionally warned {that a} wonderful of ₹500 per day could be imposed on the officers involved for every day of delay from June 29.
As per the present provision, HT shoppers (equivalent to factories and business institutions like malls) can put up solar rooftop methods.
Under an operation referred to as paralleling, industries organising rooftop or ground-mounted solar energy tasks are allowed to join their tasks with their current service connection however can not export the surplus power to the grid. So these premises have to both retailer the surplus era or curtail it. However, Tangedco claimed such an operation was inflicting income loss and subsequently, filed a petition earlier than the TNERC searching for an applicable order for extending a gross metering methodology to all HT shoppers for establishing rooftop/floor mounted solar tasks above 10 kilovolts. It additionally mentioned a net-feed-in mechanism was not viable.
Tangedco had not cleared the applications for rooftop methods due its pending petition with the TNERC.
The regulatory fee additionally directed the industries whose applications had been pending as on date to give an enterprise they might abide by its ultimate order in Tangedco’s petition and any quantity discovered to be due from them must be paid instantly.
The TNERC additionally directed a duplicate of its order to be marked to Tangedco’s chief for applicable motion.
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