Power ministry working on resource adequacy plan guidelines

The Union Power ministry was working on resource adequacy plan guidelines to ensure 24×7 power supply to the consumers, a senior official said on Wednesday.

The ministry was also discussing some bigger reforms to make discoms viable and was working on steps like de-regulating the sector or making regulation adaptability more industry friendly, the official said.

Resource adequacy is the ability of a utilities’ reliable capacity resources (supply) to meet the customers’ energy or system loads (demands) at all hours The factor that affects supply is the availability of sufficient dispatchable capacity resources in order to meet the demand.

A focus on 24×7 power can be ensured if discoms properly have resource adequacy in place. There are a few private players who are working in this direction.