Electricity (Right of Consumers) Amendment 2021: State Commission May Allow Net-Metering Upto 500 KW
Ministry of power has issued an official notification on Electricity (Right of Consumers) Amendment Rules 2021. The notification states that the arrangements for net-metering, gross-metering, net billing or net feed-in will be in accordance with the regulations made by the State Commission.
According to the amendments in the sub-rules, the commission may allow net metering to the Prosumer for up to 500 KW or up to the sanctioned load, as per the amendment.
In case of Prosumers availing net-metering or net feed-in, the commission may introduce time of the day tariffs by which the Prosumers are incentivized to install energy storage for utilization of solar energy stored.
In case of the net-metering, net-billing or net feed-in, the distribution licensee may install a solar energy meter to measure the gross solar energy generated from the Grid Interactive rooftop Solar Photovoltaic system for the purpose of renewable energy purchase obligation credit.
The state commission may permit gross-metering for prosumers who would like to sell all the generated solar energy to the distribution licensee instead of availing the net-metering, net-billing or net feed-in facility. For this purpose, the commission will decide the generic tariff for gross metering as per tariff regulations.
According to the amendment in sub-rule 13, the solar energy generated by the prosumer will be adjusted against energy consumed and bill amount as per regulations made by the commission for Grid Interactive rooftop Solar Photovoltaic system.
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