Open access: A game changer for green energy?<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\nWhat are the key provisions of Green Energy Open Access Rules,2022?<\/b><\/h5>\n
Lower Limit for green energy open access<\/b>: The limit of open access transactions has been reduced from 1 MW (megawatt) to 100 kW for green energy in order to enable small consumers also to purchase renewable power through open access.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nSetting up of Central Nodal Agency: <\/b>The rules provide for the s<\/span>etting up of a central nodal agency for operating a single-window green energy open access system through a centralized registry.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nFaster Application Process:<\/b> The decision to grant green energy open access or not would have to be taken in 15 days failing which it would be treated as deemed permission.<\/span><\/p>\nWhat are the implications of these rules?<\/b><\/h5>\n
Firstly<\/b>, open-access rules for green power, though helpful to the consumers, will put the discom finances under further strain.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nNote: <\/b>If India really wants to reach 500 GW of non-fossil capacity, the financial health of the discoms needs to improve by taking the following actions: Retail tariffs need to be raised, the discoms need to bring down their commercial losses and the government needs to pay the promised subsidy to the discoms.<\/span><\/p>\nSecondly, <\/b>the states will still be able to thwart open access by citing technical issues, meaning a lack of transmission capacity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nSource: <\/b>The post is based on the article<\/span> \u201cOpen access: A game changer for green energy?<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in <\/span>Business Standard <\/b>on 23rd June 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What is the News? The Ministry of Power has notified the Green Energy Open Access Rules, 2022. Background Read here: Open access: A game changer for green energy? What are the key provisions of Green Energy Open Access Rules,2022? Lower Limit for green energy open access: The limit of open access transactions has been reduced… Continue reading Green Energy Open Access Rules,2022: Open access: A game changer for green energy?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[10503],"class_list":["post-191928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-business-standard","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}