No, 2372/2022.R8R Government of india Ministry of Power ‘Shram Shakti Bhawan, Raf Marg New Daly, 2" August, 2022 To 1. Secretary. MNRE, New Dethi 2. Chairperson, Cental Electicity Auhosty, Sewa Bhawan, RK. Puram, New Deli 3. Secretary, Cental Elecicity Regulatory Commission (CERC), New Dah 4. Principal Secretares/Seoretaies (Powrer/Energy) of al State Governments/UTs 5. Secretaries of al State Electicty Reguiatory CommissionsIERCs. &. Charman/GMDs ofall PSUs under administrative control of Ministry of Power 7. CMD, SECI, New Dah 8 CMD&iMDs of DiscomsiGencos ofall State Governments 9. GMD, IEX LTD New Deh & MDICEO. PXIL, Mumbai 40. DG, Association of Power Producers, New Del 11 Presiden, FICCI, House No.1, Tansen Marg New Delhi 12, President, Cl, New Delhi 13 President PHOCCI, New Delhi 18, ASSOCHAM, Chanakyapur, New Delhi 15, Member, PRAYAS Energy Group, Pune 16. DG, Electie Power Transmission Assocation (EPTA), New Deh 17. Chaiman indian Wind Power Association, New Del 18. Chaiman, Indian Wind Turbine Manufacturers Association, Now Delhi 18, Director General, Natonal Solar Energy Federation of ncia(NSEFI), New Det Subject: Draft Electricity (Amendment) Rules, 2022- Reg. Sinttadam, | am directed te forward herewith the draft Electricity (Amendment) Rules, 2022, with request o provide your comments, any. to this Ministry within 30 days trem the date of this Teter, ie” by 1!" September, 2022 The” comments may aso be emaled at pk [email protected]. 2, This issues wi the approval of Competent Authosy. ‘Yours fatal, Nee ©. Chattopactyay) Deputy Secretary othe Govt. of Incla Pro011- 2971 8250 Enel 28 above ‘Copy for information to: PS to Hon'ble Minister for Power and NRE, APS to MoSP, Sr. PPS to Seay P), PSO fe CE (RAR), Ministy of Power Gopy te: Technical Director, NIC Cell for uploading on MOP's website unde “Current Notices" {nth the heading of “Seeking comments on draft Electricity (Amendment) Rules, 2022.[Published in te Gazette of india, Extraordinary, Parti, Section 3, Subsection ()] (oRAFT) GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF POWER New Delhi, the... August, 2022 NOTIFICATION GSR... (E)- In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 176 of the Electricity Act, 2003 (Act 36 of 2003), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules, further to amend the Electricity Rules, 2005, namely 4, Short title and commencement - (1), These rules may be called the Electricity (Amendment) Rules, 2022. (2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette 2. Inthe Electricity Rules, 2005, in rule 2 shall be replaced by folowing (1) Definitions: (a) “Act” means the Electricity Act, 2003 (36 of 2003); (©) “central poof” means pool of category specific power from ISTS connected renewable energy sources being procured by the authorized Intermediary Procuters under Section 63 of the Act and {8 per provisions of Bidding Guidelines notified by the Central to time for supply to the End Procurers of ‘more than one State so that such power from renewable energy sources can be supplied to all End Procurers from the concerned ool at Uniform tariff under the Rules. Government, from tim(©) “end procurer’ means the persons to whom @ license to undertake distibution and retail supply of electricity has been ganted under Section 15 of the Act (4) “implementing agency’ means the Central Agency as rotfied by the Central Government from time to time for the implementation of “Uniform Renewable Energy Tarif for Central Poot” under these Rules (6) “Intormediary procurer’ means company, designated by an order ‘made by the Central Government under these Rules as ar intermediary between the End Procurer and the generating company to purchase electricity from generating companies and resell it to the End Procurer by agoregating the purchases or otherwise under Guidelines issued by the Central Government from time to time; () “renewable energy’ means the electricity generated from Renewable Energy Sources; (g) “renewable energy sources” means the hydro, wind, soar, bio-mass, bio-fuel, bio-gas, waste including municipal and solid waste, geothermal, tidal, forms of oceanic energy, and such other sources as ‘may be notified by the Central Government from ime to tine; ) “uniform RE tariff means the tarif, computed by mplementing ‘Agency on a monthly basis separately for each category of Central Pool (viz. Solar Power Central Pool, Wind Power Central Pool ete), at ‘which the Intermediary Procurer(s) shall sell power fron renewable energy from that Central Pool to all the End Procurers under these Rules: (2) The words and expressions used and not defined herein but defined under the Act shall have the meaning respectively assigned to them in the Act.3. Inthe Electricity Rules, 2005, after Rule 12, the following shall ke added 13, Surcharge payable by Consumers seeking Open Access: The surcharge determined by the State Commission under sub-section (1) (a) of Section 86 of the Electricity Act, 2003 shall not exceed 20% of the Average Cost of Supply. 14, Timely recovery of power purchase costs by Distribution Licensee: The Appropriate Commission shall within ninety days of publication of these Rules, ‘specify a price adjustment formula for recovery ofthe costs, arsing on account of the variation inthe price of fuel, or power purchase costs. The impact in the cost due to such variation shall be automatically passed through in the ‘consumer tarif, on a monthly basis, using this formula. Such monthly automatic ‘adjustment shall be trued up on annual basis by the Appropriate Commission, ‘The price adjustment shall be in accordance with the methodology enclosed at Annexure Provided that til such formula is specified by the Appropriate Cemmission, the formula given in the methodology shall be applicable. 15. Subsidy Accounting: Accounting of due subsidy forthe purpose of Section 65 of the Act, shall be done by distribution licensee, in accordance with the Standard Operating Procedure issued by the Central Government, inthis regard, 16. Resource Adequacy: (1) A Guideline for assessment of Resource Adequacy during the generation planning stage (one year and beyond) as well as during the operational planning stage (up to one year) shall be issued by the Central Government in consultation with the Authority, within six months from the date of notification of these Rules. (2) The State Commission shall frame regulations on Resource Adequacy, in accordance with the Guidelines issued by the Central Goverment and the model Regulations framed by Forum of Regulators, if any. The distributionlicensees shall formulate the Resource Adequacy plan in accordance with these Regulations and seek approval of the Commission. ‘The State Commission shall review the resource adequacy, every 6 months, {for each of the distribution licensees. The State Commission may specify @ ‘non-compliance charges for failure to comply with the Resource Adequacy target approved by the Commission. (4) The National Load Dispatch Centre (NLDC) and the Regional Load Dispatch Centres (RLDCs) shall carry out assessments of Resource Adequacy, for ‘operational planning, at the national and regional levels, respectively, on an annual basis, in accordanée with the Guidelines issued by the Central Government 6) The State Load Despatch Centre (SLDC) shall cay out assessments of Resource Adequacy, for operational planning, at the state level, in consultation with the distibution licensees on an annual basis, in accordance with the Guidelines issued by the Central Government and the direction of the State Commission. Further, the SLOC shall review the ‘operational resource adequacy on a daily, monthly and quarter basis. 17. Development of Hydro Power: 1)The Authority shall decide the cases for grant of concurrence to hydro-electric generation scheme, in accordance with Section 8 of the Act, within 150 days from the date of submission of the scheme, complete in al respect. (2) The Authority shall decide the cases for grant of concurrence to offthe river Pumped Storage Plant Scheme, within 90 days from the date of submission ofthe ‘scheme, complete in all respect. 18. Energy Storage System (ESS): (1) Energy Storage Systems shall be considered as a part of the power system, defined under sub-section (50) of Section 2 ofthe Act.(2) The ESS shall be utlised either as standalone system or as a grid element or network asset or in complementary with generation, transmission and distribution, (@) The ESS shall be accorded status based on its application area Le. generation, transmission and distribution (4) The ESS can be developed, owned, leased andlor operated by a generating company of @ transmission licensee or a distribution licensee or a system operator or a standalone energy storage service provider. When an ESS is, owned and operated by and co-located with a generating station or a transmission licensee or distribution licensee, it shall have tre same legal status as that of the owner. Provided that if such an ESS is not co-located with, but owned and operated by, the generating station or distribution licensee, the legal status shal stil be that of the owner but for the purpose of scheduling and dispatch and other ‘matters it shall be treated at par with a standalone ESS. (6) The developeriowner of the ESS shall have an option to selitease/ rent out the storage space in whole or in part to any ullity engaged in generation or transmission or distribution; or to a Load Despatch Centre, Provided that the owner of the ESS may use partiwhole of the storage space himself to buy and store electricity and sell the stored electrcity at a later timeldate (6) The standalone ESS shall be a delicensed activity at par with a generating company. Provided that if the owner/developer seek to operate the ESS on a standalone basis it shall be registered with the Authorty for the capacity, veifed by the ‘Authority. It shall comply the Regulations notified by the Authoriy10. Implementation of Uniform RE Tariff for Central Pool.—(1) a) "here shall be 2 different Central Poo! for each of the sactors like Solar, Wind, Hybrid, Hydro, ‘Small Hycro Power and Power from any other renewable energy resource including storage or their combination thereof as may be notified by an order by the Central Government, Provided that such Central Poo! shall be for five years, for every five years, a ‘new Central Pool shall be formed 'b) The implementing Agency shall compute the Uniform Renewable energy tariff for seling of electricity to End Proourers) by Intermediary Procurer(s), on ‘8 monthly basis, as per the methodology given at Schedule-I of these Rules. The implementing Agency shall also issue the monthly account statements for adjustment of any surplus or deficit among the Intermediary Procurers. Intermediary Procurer(s) shall within 18 days make the payment as per the monthly account statements to the other intermediary procurer(s), if the payments due to it ©) The Contractual Obligations between Power Generators & Intermediary Procurer and Intermediary Procurer & End Procurer such as liquidated damages, penalties, extension charges, dispute resolutions shall be governed by respective bidding document including Power Purchase Agreements, Power Sale Agreements and wil have no bearing on Uniform Renewable Energy Tarif, 46) The impact on the tariff due to Change in Law shall be in accordance with the Bidding Documents and shall be reflected in the pooled tariff computed in accordance with these Rules. €@) Uniform Renewable Energy Tarif shall be applicable only to power procured by the End Procurers and shall nat in any manner have any implication on the Renewable energy tari discovered under the respective tariff based Competitive bid process and payable to Renewable energy Generators by Intermediary Procurer as per the Power Purchase Agreement,f) The trading margin, as notified by the Appropriate Commission / Central Government (or in the absence of such notification, as mutually agreed between the Intermediary Procurer and the End Procure), shall be payable by the End Procurer tothe Intermediary Procurer, 49) The Appropriate Commission, on an application made by the Intermediary Pracurer(s) or End Procurers, as the case may be, shall adopt the tariff discovered through competitive bidding process carried out by Intermediary Procurers under Section 63 of the Act and as per provisions of Bidding Guidelines notified by the Government from time to time. Adopted tariff of one catagory of Renewable energy power shall be part ofthe respective category of the Central Poo! h) The End Procurer(s) shall obtain the approval of the concerned State Commission for the procurement of the electricity from a pool at Uniform Renewable Energy Tariff computed under these Rules from time 0 time, i) Bilateral scheduling from the Renewable energy generators shall be done directly to the end procurers as per the Power Supply Agreement, }) Scheduling, Accounting, Deviation Settlement Mechanism (DSW) shall be as, peer extant regulation of Appropriate Commission. Ik) The Intermediary Procurer shall raise the bill on a monthly basis as per the Uniform Renewable Energy Tariff computed by the Implementing Agency for the relevant month and in accordance with the terms of the resvective Power Sale Agreement 1) The Implementing Agency shall make public the relevant details including the monthly accounts statements, on its website and shall have no lability except {for computing Tarif on a monthly basis for sale of power from the Central Poo! 1s per these Rules and shall be kept indemnified1m) Procedures for implementation of these Rules shall be issued by the Implementing Agency with the approval ef the Central Government 2. Uniform Renewable Energy Tariff under these Rules shall be applicable only to the Renewable energy generators for their contracted capacity which forms part of Central Pool under these Rules. 4. In the Electricity Rules, 2008, for Rule 10, the following shall te substituted namely 10.(1) ‘The Appropriate Commission, shall pass a final order, for resoluton of dispute under Sections 79(f) and 86,0), within One Hundred and Twenty days from the date of receipt ofthe petition in the Commission, which may be extended by thity days for reasons to be recorded in writing Provided that if @ final order cannot be issued, due to any reason, to be recorded in wring, then an interim’ order shall be issued by the Appropriate Commission, within the tine line prescribed in Rue (1). (2) If the final order has not been passed by the appropriate Commission, within Ninety days or One Hundred Eighty days, as the case may be, the affected party may approach the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity for appropriate reli [File No. 232/2022-R&R] 0 ‘The Principal Rules were published 2006 in the Gazette of India vice notification number G.S.R 379 (E), dated the 8 June, 2005 and subsequent amendments vide notification number G.S.R 667 (E), dated the 26" October, 2006 and notification number G.S.R. 817 (E} dated 31* December, 2020,‘Schedule! {See rule (i (9) Methodology for calculation of tariff for the Month “Tarif for a particular Month is calculated based on actual energy supplied to End Procurer (EP) from the Pool (e.g. Solar Power Central Pool, Wind Power Central Pool ete) by the Intermediary Procurer (IP) and actual amount to be peyable for such ‘supply of power as illustrated below: 1150 480 900 1200 2000 9530 2.540 2613 2710 2.502 2372 2610 2683 2780 2st 2.442 95.97 17422 258.60 438.30 1997.50 1040.70 a20.ee 641.98 5057 25072 47218 646.22 1039.65 3008.80 1069.81 330.04 659.34 612.39 287.44 484.34 665.03 1070.33 5148.73,Tas ofthe Month (NRUMWR) “ZEHTEA7%9 sre ie. (Sum total amount to be paid under PSA for that particular month isum total ‘electricity supplied during that particular month) Tel to TAX are projects commissioned after Electricity (Uniform Renewable Energy ‘Tati for Central Poo!) Rules, 2022 comes into force Continued Operation of Poo!: Lot us say above sconario is in tho Month M-4. In the begining of M-5, additional capacity of 250 MW (T-X) is getting commissioned and to be Included as a part of Pool. Accordingly considering generation during month M4, tariff for the month M-S will be calculated considering actual generation ‘during the Month WS as per following: 1150 2.540 2.610 234.63 595.97 612.39 900 2.710 2.780 174.22 472.18 484.342a 2000 2.372 2.442 438.30 1038.65 1070.33 Tag wr are vista OES “New addition tothe poo! in the Month M-5 Tete ‘Tariff of the Month (INR/KWh) ie. (Sum total of amount to be paid under PSA for that particular month /sum total ‘electricity supplied during that particular month) Tl to T-X ave projects commissioned after Electricity (Uniform Renewable Energy ‘Tarif for Central Poo!) Rules, 2022 comes into force. 4 IP- Intermediary Procurer, EP- End Procurer aAnnexure Fuel and Power Py 1. Computation of Fuel and Power Purchase Adjustment Surcharg (1)For these Rules “Fuel and Power Purchase Adjustment Surcharge" (FPPAS) ‘means the increase in cost of power, supplied to consumers, due o change in Fuel cost, power purchase cost and transmission charges witr reference to cost of supply approved by the State Commission FPPAS shall be calculated and billed to consumers, automattally, without going through regulatory approval process, on monthly basis, aczording to the formula, prescribed by the respective State Commission, subjectto tte up on annual basis as decided by the State Commission, Provided that the automatic pass through shall be adjusted for monthly biling Q in accordance with these Rules. (3) FPPAS shall be computed and charged by the Distribution licensee, in (n+2)” ‘month, on the basis of actual variation, in cost of fuel and power purchase and Inter-State Transmission Charges for the power procured during the a” ‘month, For example, the FPPAS on account of changes in tariff for power ‘supplied during the month of Apri of any financial year shall be computed and billed in the month of June ofthe same financial year Provided that in case the distribution licensee fas to compute and charge FPPAS within ths time line, except in case of any force majeure condtion, its Tight for recovery of costs on account of FPPAS shall be forfeited. In such ‘cases, the right to recovery the FPPAS determined during true-up shall also be forfeited (4) The Distribution licensee may decide, FPPAS or part thereof, to be carried forward to the subsequent month in order to avoid any tari shock to consumers, but the carry forward of FPPAS shall not exceed a maximum duration of two months. Such carry forward shall only be applicable, if the total FPPAS for a Biling Month, including any carry forward of FPPAS over the previous month(s) exceeds 20% of variable component of approved tariff. The carry forward shall be recovered in the same financial year. The 2@ ‘money recovered through FPPAS chall first be accounted towards the oldest cary forward portion of the FPPAS followed by the subsequert month(s). In case of cary forward of FPPAS, carrying cost at the rate of State Bank of India Marginal cost of Funds-based lending Rate (SBIMCLR) plus one hundred and fity basis points shall be allowed til the same is recovered through tarif. This canying cost shall be tued up in the year under 6 consideration Depending upon quantum of FPPAS, automatic pass through shall be adjusted such that, (D IFFPPAS 5%, 95 % cost recoverable of computed FPPAS by distribution ©) licensee shall be levied automatically using the formula, (i) IF5%« FPPAS <10%, 5% FPPAS recoverable by distribution icensee shall be levied onto the consumers, and the balance shall be recoverable up to {90% automatically using the formula, (ii) f FPPAS >10%, 10% FPPAS recoverable by distribution licensee may be levied onto the consumers automaticaly using the formula, and the differential claim shall be recoverable after approval by the State Commission during true up. (7) The revenue recovered. on account of pass through FPPAS by the distribution licensee, shall be trued up later forthe year under consideration. ‘The true up for any financial Year shall be completed by 30” June of the next financial year, (8) In case of excess revenue recovered for the year against the FPPAS, the ‘same shall be recovered from the licensee at the time of trued up along with its carrying cost to be charged at 1.20 times of the carrying cost rate approved by the State Commission, The under recovery of FPPAS shall be allowed during true up, 1 be biled along withthe automatic FPPAS amount For example in the month of July, the automatic pass through component for the power supplied in May and additional FPPAS, if any, recoverable after ‘tue up for the month of Aprilin previous financial year, shall be billed. ‘The Distribution Licensee shall submit such details, in the stipulated formats, of the variation between expenses incurred and the FPPAS recovered, and the detailed computations and supporting cocuments, as, required by the State Commission, during rue up of the normal tari a(10) To ensure smooth implementation of the FPPAS mechanism and its recovery, distibution licensee shall ensure thatthe licensee biling system is updated to take this info account. A Unified Biling System shall be implemented to ensure that there is a uniform biling system trespecive of the biling and metering vendor through interoperabilty or use of open source software as available, (11) The icensee shall publish all details including the FPPAS formula, calculation of monthly FPPAS and recovery of FPPAS (separately for automatic and approved portions) on its website and archve the same through a dedicated web address. 2. Computation of FPPAS: (1) Formula: Monthly PPAC for nth Month (36) = ABYC + (D-€) (Z* (1- Distribution losses in%/100);* ABR Where, N* month means the month in which biling of FPPAS comporent is done. This FPPAS is due to changes in tariff for the power supplied in (0-2)" month ‘Ais Total units procured in (n-2)" Month (in kWh) from all Sources (To be taken from the bils of the GENCOs issued to distribution licensees) B is Proportionate bulk sale of power from all Sources in (n-2)" Month. (in kWh) = {(Total bulk sale in (9-2) th Month) “A) (in kWh) (Gross Power Purchase including short term power in (n-2}th month (in kWh) (to be taken {rom provisional accounts to be issued by SLDC by the 10tr day of each ‘month. C Js incremental Average Power Purchase Cost= Actual average Power Purchase Cost (PPC) from all Sources in (n-2) month iRs,/ kWh) ( computed) - Projected average Power Purchase Cost (PPC) from all Sources (Rs./kWh)- (from tarif order) D = Actual Transmission Charges in the (n-2) th Month, (From the bil by Transco to Discom) (in RS.)E = Base Cost of Transmission Charges for (n-2)th Month = (Approved Transmission Charges/12) (In Rs.) Z = [{Actual Power purchased from Central Generating Stations having long/MegiumShort term PPA in (n-2) th Month. (in KWh)* (1 ~ inter-state transmission losses in % /100 ) + Power purchased from other GENCOs(in KWh))(1 Intra state losses in %) - 8/100 in Hh ABR = Average Billing Rate for the year (to be taken from the Tariff Order in Relunit) Distribution Losses (in %) = Target Distrbution Losses (from Tariff Order) Interstate transmission Losses (in %) = 100" Approved Inter-stote transmission losses in Tarif Order (kWh) Approved long tem power purchase from central generating stations having long term PFA inthe Tarif Order (kwh) Intra State Losses (in %) = As per Tariff Order (2) The Power Purchase Cost shall exclude any charges on account of Deviation Settlement Mechanism (DSM) Other charges which include Ancillary Services and Secutity Constrained Economic Desptach (SCED) shall not be included in FPPAS and adjusted though the true-up approved by the State Commission, @