Maharashtra Energy Regulatory Commission withdraws compulsory gross metering for solar power

Aurangabad: The Maharashtra Energy Regulatory Commission (MERC) has done away with the plan to have a compulsory gross metering for solar power generation.

The measure was one of the alleged provisions in the draft regulations that did not find any place in the final regulations declared by the regulatory body.

While the draft regulations had also envisaged an arrangement by which the power supplying companies were entitled to bill the power produced by solar users at allegedly higher rate, this too has been also made consumer-centric now.