{"id":268439,"date":"2019-04-08T06:17:29","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T06:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=268439"},"modified":"2019-04-08T06:17:29","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T06:17:29","slug":"freedom-of-choice-open-access-gets-leg-up-from-states-solar-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/freedom-of-choice-open-access-gets-leg-up-from-states-solar-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom of choice: Open access gets leg-up from states\u2019 solar policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Open access by industrial and other bulk consumers of electricity has picked up in the current year, helped by renewable energy policies of several states such as Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana which have removed extra costs (surcharges) imposed on such transactions from solar and wind units. In the April-February period this year, open access transactions touched an all-time high of 65 billion units (bu) and the year may have ended with such deals of over 70 bu, up a third over FY18 (see chart).<\/p>\n<p>Open access is the non-discriminatory use of transmission and distribution infrastructure of the licensees by consumers with demand greater than or equal to 1 MW for procuring electricity from the source of their choice. Put simply, it allows a consumer to circumvent the discom and buy power directly from the power plant of his choice via bilateral deals or spot market purchases on the exchanges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open access by industrial and other bulk consumers of electricity has picked up in the current year, helped by renewable energy policies of several states such as Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana which have removed extra costs (surcharges) imposed on such transactions from solar and wind units. In the April-February period this year, open access transactions touched an all-time high of 65 billion units (bu) and the year may have ended with such deals of over 70 bu, up a third over FY18 (see chart). Open access is the non-discriminatory use of transmission and distribution infrastructure of the licensees by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}