The Central Electricity Authority, (CEA) on March 05, 2025, notified the Draft Central Electricity Authority (Installation and Operation of Meters) (Fifth Amendment) Regulations, 2025.
All stakeholders and general public are requested to send their comments on the draft regulations by April 05, 2025.
The following has been stated-
•In Regulation 2, the following shall be substituted- (i) for Clause (n) in sub-Regulation (1) of Regulation 2, the “(n) ‘Interface Meter’ means a meter used for accounting and billing of electricity, connected at the point of interconnection between electrical systems of generating company, licensee and consumers, directly connected to the InterState Transmission System or Intra-State Transmission System or Distribution System and who have been permitted open access at voltage level exceeding 650 V by the Appropriate Commission;”; Clause shall be substituted.
•For Clause 2 of Regulation 2, the following Clause shall be substituted, namely: “(2) The words and expressions used and not defined in these Regulations but defined in the Act and Rules made therein shall have the meaning assigned to them in the Act and Rules.”
•In Regulation 4 of the said Regulations, in sub-Regulation (1), for Clause (b), the “Provided further that consumer connected at voltage level not exceeding 650 V and permitted open access, shall be supplied electricity through Smart Meters as per relevant IS. Provided further that in case of open access consumer connected at voltage level not exceeding 650 V or prosumer, prepayment mode may not be applicable.” shall be added as Proviso 3 and 4.
•In regulation 5 of the said regulations, the existing clause shall be numbered as 5(1) and the “(2) All the “Advanced Metering Infrastructure” systems shall be consistent with the ‘Guidelines for Standardization and Interoperability in Advanced Metering Infrastructure systems for End to End communication between Smart Meter, Head End System and Meter Data Management’ as issued by the Authority and amended up to date.” sub clause shall be added after Clause (1).
