Rooftop solar developers may approach state regulator for connectivity
BENGALURU: Around 1000 MW of solar projects in Haryana are unable to transmit power because distribution companies are not giving them the required connectivity, aggrieved solar developers maintained.
The Distributed Solar Power Association, a body of solar rooftop developers, told ET it is likely to soon file a petition before the Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission protesting the power discoms’ reluctance.
All these are ‘open access’ projects, where developers supply power directly to their customers through the grid without routing it through a discom. But they need the relevant discom’s consent to do so. Though open access transmission is being propagated by governments, in practice, there has been a big push back from discoms against them because discoms lose revenue if power is transmitted directly without the discom as intermediary.
