Petition for exempting and relaxing the compliance of Renewable Purchase Obligation
Petition purported to be filed under Regulations 12.1 & 14.2 of the Jharkhand State Electricity Regulatory Commission (Renewable Purchase Obligation and its compliance) Regulations, 2010 (notification dated 21st July, 2010) and under Regulations 13 read with 15.2 of the Jharkhand State Electricity Regulatory Commission (Renewable Purchase Obligation and its compliance) Regulations, 2016 for exempting and relaxing the compliance of Renewable Purchase Obligation mainly on ground that electricity produced from captive co-generating units of the petitioner is far in excess of its RPO requirements for the period 2014-15,2015-16, 2016-17,2017-18 & 2018-19 and further periods in terms of 2010 & 2016 Regulations.
ORDER
1. The petitions in case no. 21 of 2019, 17 of 2020 , 09 of 2020 and 10 of 2020 are partly allowed to the extent that for additional electricity produced through co-generation by the petitioners, they have not to be fastened with Renewable Purchase Obligation. Prayers of the petitioners that co-generation be considered at par with renewable power and as such the obligated entity be exempted from Renewable Purchase Obligation is not allowed being devoid of merit.
Further, Case no. 23 of 2019 is dismissed as withdrawn.
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