India will issue draft guidelines in a fortnight to enable power distribution companies to offer renewable energy to large consumers at a separate green tariff, a weighted average of the utilities’ cost of procurement of green energy, power and renewable energy minister R K Singh said on Tuesday.
ET was the first to report on May 19 that India proposes to offer renewable energy through state power distribution companies to consumers at a separate ‘green tariff,’ while also allowing customers to directly buy renewable energy from developers by exempting additional surcharge.
