The Government of Karnataka on July 17, 2025, issued the Karnataka Electricity Distribution Code (KEDC), 2025.
The Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission had notified the draft KERC (Karnataka Electricity Distribution Code) Regulations, 2024 and also Commission held Public Hearing in the matter on May 08, 2025. After considering the views/comments/suggestions of the Stakeholders in the matter, the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission issued the Karnataka Electricity Distribution Code (KEDC), 2025.
These Regulations shall come into force from July 17, 2025. These Regulations shall extend to the whole of the State of Karnataka.
The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission has notified (Indian Electricity Grid Code) Regulations, 2023 on May 29, 2023 duly repealing IEGC Regulations 2010 and all subsequent amendments thereof.
This has mandated upon the Distribution Licensees, various functions in the Operating Code and the Schedule and Dispatch Code covering the Resource Adequacy framework for demand assessment and forecasting, generation resource planning, power procurement planning, and monitoring and compliance along with demand management schemes for automatic load management like rotational load shedding, demand response (which may include lower Tariff for interruptible loads) etc., to curtail / prevent over drawal from the grid at times of low frequency etc.
The CEA/CERC/FoR has notified New/Model Regulations/Guidelines and amendments to the existing Regulations cited as under:
• Central Electricity Authority (Installation and Operation of Meters) Regulations, 2006.
• Central Electricity Authority (Technical Standards for Connectivity in the Grid) Regulations, 2007.
• Central Electricity Authority (Grid Standards) Regulations, 2010.
• Central Electricity Authority (Technical Standards for Connectivity of the Distributed Generation Resources) Regulations, 2013.
In view of the foregoing, the following Codes and Standards for the Distribution System are proposed to be revised in order to be consistent with the Regulations of CERC and CEA mentioned above.
• Distribution Planning Code:
o System Construction and Security Planning
o Resource Adequacy Planning c) Quality Assurance Plan(QAP)
• Distribution Operation and Maintenance Code.
• Safety Standards for Distribution System.
For more details, Please refer to the document below.
[Notification No. KERC/KEDC/2025-26/513]
