{"id":429386,"date":"2021-08-06T11:37:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T06:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=429386"},"modified":"2021-08-06T11:37:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T06:07:18","slug":"tamil-nadu-power-utility-told-to-compensate-solar-units","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/tamil-nadu-power-utility-told-to-compensate-solar-units\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamil Nadu power utility told to compensate solar units"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State-owned electricity distribution utilities (discoms), which refuse to lift and pay for \u2018high-cost\u2019 power from solar developers in violation of the relevant laws, policies and purchase agreements, will now come up against a quasi judicial order. Setting aside a March 2019 order of the Tamil Nadu electricity regulator, the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity (Aptel) ruled that curtailment and back-down on renewable power purchases by discoms for reasons other than grid security is untenable.<\/p>\n<p>The tribunal also directed that state power regulators across the country and the pan-India load despatch body POSOCO to abide by the rule, \u201ctill such time the Forum of Regulators or the Central Government formulates guidelines in relation to curtailment of renewable energy\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State-owned electricity distribution utilities (discoms), which refuse to lift and pay for \u2018high-cost\u2019 power from solar developers in violation of the relevant laws, policies and purchase agreements, will now come up against a quasi judicial order. Setting aside a March 2019 order of the Tamil Nadu electricity regulator, the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity (Aptel) ruled that curtailment and back-down on renewable power purchases by discoms for reasons other than grid security is untenable. The tribunal also directed that state power regulators across the country and the pan-India load despatch body POSOCO to abide by the rule, \u201ctill such time the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"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-429386","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\/429386","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}