The Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC) December 17, 2024, issued the Draft Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (Terms and Conditions for Green Energy Open Access (GEOA) (First Amendment) Regulations, 2024.
The following modifications have been proposed:
• Regulation 1.d has been modified as follows:
“Consumer means any person who has contract demand (for HT) or sanctioned load (for LT) of 100 kW or more, either through single connection or through multiple connections aggregating to one hundred kW or more located in the same electricity division of a distribution licensee, (captive consumers shall not have any load limit), who is supplied with electricity from RE sources for his own use by a licensee or CPP or the Government or by any other person engaged in the business of supplying electricity to the public including captive, under this Act or any other law for the time being in force and includes any person whose premises are for the time being connected for the purpose of receiving renewable energy with the works of licensee, the Government or such other person, as the case may be;
• Proviso to Regulation 1 has been deleted.
• Regulation 8.ii has been modified as follows:
The application shall be forwarded to the concerned State Nodal Agency by the Central Nodal Agency for further verification. The following time schedules shall be followed for processing the longterm, medium-term and short term OA Application: xxxx xxxx xxxx
These Regulations shall come into force from the date of publication in the Official Gazette of Karnataka.
These Regulations shall be applicable for allowing Open Access to electricity generated from Renewable Energy Sources, for use of Intra- State Transmission System/s (InSTS) and/or distribution system/s of licensee/s in the State, including such Intra State Transmission and/or distribution system/s, which are incidental to Inter-State Transmission of electricity.
The draft of the amendment is hereby notified for information of all the persons likely to be affected and notice is hereby given that, the said draft will be taken into consideration after 30 days from the date of its publication in the official gazette. The stakeholders and interested persons may file their objections/suggestions/views on the proposed draft within 30 days from the date of publication.
[Notification No. KERC-1-CON-2023-24/F-18/1197]
