New Delhi: In what may dent India\u2019s image as a green energy investment destination, Haryana\u2019 electricity distribution companies (discoms) haven\u2019t allowed solar project developers to use its power transmission and distribution networks to supply electricity to third-party and captive consumers by imposing new conditions, said three people aware of the development.<\/p>\n
This move by Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam Ltd (DHBVNL) and Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam Ltd (UHBVNL) to put on hold \u201cfinal charging approval” comes in the backdrop of Punjab and Andhra Pradesh governments\u2019 plan to renegotiate clean energy contracts. Once such charging approval is granted, these plants can start supplying electricity using the discoms\u2019 and transmission companies’ power network.<\/p>\n
The firms with investment commitments of around \u20b91700 crore in these open access solar power projects are: Malaysia\u2019s state-run oil and gas company, Petroliam Nasional Bhd or Petronas\u2019 Amplus Energy Solutions Pvt. Ltd, Royal Dutch Shell backed Cleantech Solar Energy, Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO) backed Avaada Energy Pvt Ltd, and World Bank\u2019s private-sector development arm International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Warburg Pincus backed CleanMax Solar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New Delhi: In what may dent India\u2019s image as a green energy investment destination, Haryana\u2019 electricity distribution companies (discoms) haven\u2019t allowed solar project developers to use its power transmission and distribution networks to supply electricity to third-party and captive consumers by imposing new conditions, said three people aware of the development. This move by Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam Ltd (DHBVNL) and Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam Ltd (UHBVNL) to put on hold \u201cfinal charging approval” comes in the backdrop of Punjab and Andhra Pradesh governments\u2019 plan to renegotiate clean energy contracts. Once such charging approval is granted, these plants […]<\/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":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368305","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=368305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}