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CENTRAL ELECTRICITY REGULATORY
COMMISSION
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 14th January, 2010
No. L-1/12/2010-CERC.—In exercise of powers
conferred under sub-section (1) of Section 178 and Section
66 read with clause (y) of sub-section (2) of Section 178 of
the Electricity Act, 2003 and all other powers enabling it in
this behalf, and after previous publication, the Central
Electricity Regulatory Commission hereby makes the
following regulations for the development of market in
power from Non -Conventional Energy Sources by issuance
of transferable and saleable credit certificates :
Short title, commencement and extent of
application.—(1) These regulations may be called the
I Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (Terms and
Conditions for Recognition and Issuance of Renewable
Regulations, 2010,t
Energy Certificate for Renewable Energy Generation)
.
(2) These regulations shall come into force from
the date of their notification in the Official Gazette.
(3) These Regulations shall apply throughout
India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir.
Definitions and Interpretation.—(1) In these
regulations, unless the context otherwise requires,—
'Act' means the Electricity Act, 2003 (36 of
2003);
'Central Agency' means the agency as may
be designated by the Commission under
clause (I) of Regulation 3;
(c) 'Certificate' means the renewable energy
certificate issued by the Central Agency in
accordance with the procedures laid down
by it and under the provisions specified in
these Regulations;
`Commission' means the Central Electricity
Regulatory Commission referred to in
sub-section (1) of Section 76 of the Act;
`eligible entity' means the entity eligible to
receive the certificates under these
regulations;
'floor price' means the minimum price as
determined by the Commission in accordance
with these regulations at and above which
the certificate can be dealt in the power
exchange;
`forbearance price' means the ceiling price
as determined by the Commission in
accordance with these regulations within
which only the certificates can be dealt in
the power exchange;
(h) `MNRE' means the Ministry of New and
Renewable Energy;
`obligated entity' means the entity mandated
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under clause (e) of sub-section ( ) of
Section 86 of the Act to fulfil the renewable
purchase obligation;
(1)
(g)
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'Power Exchange' means that power
exchange which operates with the approval
of the Commission;
'preferential tariff, means the tariff fixed by
the Appropriate Commission for sale of
energy, from a generating station using
renewable energy sources, to a distribution
licensee;
(I) 'renewable energy sources' means
renewable sources such as small hydro,
wind, solar including its integration with
combined cycle, biomass, bio fuel
cogeneration, urban or municipal waste and
such other sources as recognized or
approved by MNRE ;
'renewable purchase obligation' means the
requirement specified by the State
Commissions under clause (e) of sub-
section (I) of Section 86 of the Act, for the
obligated entity to purchase electricity from
renewable energy sources;
'State Agency' means the agency in the
concerned State as may be designated by
the State Commission to act as the agency
for accreditation and recommending the
renewable energy projects for registration
and to undertake such functions as may be
specified under clause (e) of sub-section (1)
of Section 86 of the Act;
(o) 'State Commission' means the State
Commission referred to in sub-section (64)
of Section 2 of the Act and includes a Joint
Commission referred to in sub-section (1) of
Section 83 of the Act;
(p ) 'Year' means a financial year.
(2) Words and expressions used in these Regulations
and not defined herein but defined in the Act or any other
regulations issued by the Commission, shall have the same
meaning assigned to them respectively in the Act, or such
other regulations issued by the Commission.
3. Central Agency and its Functions.—(1) The
Commission shall designate an agency as the Central
Agency after satisfying itself that the said agency has the
required capability of performing its functions as provided
under these regulations.
(2) The functions of the Central Agency will be to
undertake :
registration of eligible entities;
issuance of certificates;
(iii) maintaining and settling accounts in respect
of certificates;
repository of transactions in certificates; and
such other functions incidental to the
implementation of renewable energy
certificate mechanism as may be assigned by
the Commission from time to time.
(3) Subject to provisions of these regulations, the
Central Agency, with approval of the Commission and after
inviting comments from the State Agency shall issue a
detailed procedure for registration of eligible entities,
verification of generation of electricity and its injection
into the grid by the eligible entity, issuance of certificates
and other relevant and residual matters :
. Provided that the detailed procedure shall be
prepared by the Central Agency and submitted to the
Commission for approval within sixty days from the date of
notification of these regulations :
Provided further that while preparing the detailed
procedure the Central Agency shall give three weeks time
to the State Agency and other stakeholders for comments :
Provided also that the Commission may at any time
either on its own motion or on an application or
representation made by any interested party direct the
Central Agency to modify, add or delete any of the
provisions of the detailed procedure as deemed appropriate
and upon such directions by the Commission the detailed
procedure shall be implemented with such modifications.
(4) The Commission may issue directions to the
Central Agency in regard to the discharge of its functions
and the Central Agency shall always act in accordance
with the directions issued by the Commission.
4. Categories of Certificates.—(1) There shall be
two categories of certificates, viz., solar certificates issued
to eligible entities for generation of electricity based on
solar as renewable energy source, and non-solar
certificates issued to eligible entities for generation of
electricity based on renewable energy sources other than
solar.
(2) The solar certificate shall be sold to the obligated
entities to enable them to meet their renewable purchase
obligation for solar, and non-solar certificate shall be sold
to the obligated entities to enable them to meet their
obligation for purchase from renewable energy sources
other than solar.
5. Eligibility and Registration for Certificates.—
(1) A generating company engaged in generation of
electriCity from renewable energy sources shall be eligible
to apply for registration for issuance of and dealing in
Certificates if it fulfils the following conditions :
(a) it has obtained accreditation from the State
Agency;
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(b)it does not have any power purchase
agreement for the capacity related to such
generation to sell electricity at a preferential
tariff determined by the Appropriate
Commission; and
(c) it sells the electricity generated either (i) to the
distribution licensee of the area in which the
eligible entity is located, at a price not exceeding
the pooled cost of power purchase of such
distribution licensee, or (ii) to any other licensee
or to an open access consumer at a mutually
agreed price, or through power exchange at
market determined price.
Explanation.-For the purpose of these
regulations 'Pooled Cost of Purchase' means the
weighted average pooled price at which the
distribution licensee has purchased the electricity
including cost of self-generation, if any, in the
previous year from all the energy suppliers long-
term and short-term, but excluding those based
on renewable energy sources, as the case may be.
The generating company after fulfilling the
eligibility criteria as provided in clause (I) of this regulation
may apply for registration with the Central Agency in such
manner as may be provided in the detailed procedure.
The Central Agency shall accord registration to
such applicant within fifteen days from the date of
application for such registration :
Provided that an applicant shall be given a
reasonable opportunity of being heard before his application
is rejected with reasons to be recorded in writing.
(4) A person aggrieved by the order of the Central
Agency under proviso to clause (3) of this regulation may
appeal before the Commission within fifteen days from the
date of such order, and the Commission may pass order, as
deemed appropriate on such appeal.
6. Revocation of Registration.—(1) If the Central
Agency, after making an enquiry or based on the report of
the Compliance Auditors, is satisfied that public interests
so require, it may revoke registration of the eligible entity
in any of the following cases, namely :—
where the eligible entity, in the opinion of the
Central Agency, makes wilful and prolonged
default in doing anything required of him by or
under these regulations;
where the eligible entity breaks any of the terms
and conditions of its accreditation or
registration, the breach of which is expressly
declared by such accreditation or registration
to render it liable to revocation;
(c) where the eligible entity fails within the period
required in this behalf by the Central Agency —
(i) to show, to the satisfaction of the Central
Agency, that it is in a position fully and
efficiently to discharge the duties and
obligations imposed on it by its accreditation or
registration; or (ii)to make the deposit or furnish
the security, or pay the fees or other charges
required by its accreditation or registration.
The Central Agency before revoking the
registration under clause (1) of this regulation shall give to
the eligible entity reasonable opportunity for being heard.
Notwithstanding the provisions of sub-
regulations (2) and (3) above, the Commission may from
time to time direct the Central Agency to initiate enquiry
and/or. revocation process if the Commission deems it fit
where any or all of the conditions as at clauses (a) to (c) of
sub-regulation (1) exist.
(4) A person aggrieved by the order of the Central
Agency under proviso to clause (1) of this regulation may
appeal before the Commission within fifteen days of such
order being communicated, and the Commission may pass
order, as deemed appropriate on such appeal.
7. Denomination and Issuance of Certificates.
-(1) The eligible entities shal apply to the Central Agency
for Certificates within three months after corresponding
generation from eligible renewable energy projects :
Provided that the application for issuance of
certificates may be made on fortnightly basis, that is, on
the first day of the month or on the fifteenth day of the
month.
The Certificates shall be issued to the eligible
entity after the Central Agency duly satisfies itself that all
the conditions for issuance of Certificate, as may be
stipulated in the detailed procedure, are complied with by
the eligible entity.
The Certificates shall be issued by the Central
Agency within fifteen days from the date of application by
the eligible entities.
The Certificates shall be issued to the eligible
entity on the basis of the units of electricity generated
from renewable energy sources and injected into the Grid,
and duly accounted in the Energy Accounting System as
per the Indian Electricity Grid Code or the State Grid Code
as the case may be, and the directions of the authorities
constituted under the Act to oversee scheduling and
dispatch and energy accounting, or based on written
communication of distribution licensee to the concerned
State Load Dispatch Centre with regard to the energy input
by renewable energy generators which are not covered
under the existing scheduling and dispatch procedures.
The process of certifying the energy injection
shall be as stipulated in the detailed procedures to be issued
by the Central agency.
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(2) The Certificate issued to eligible entity by the
Central Agency may be placed for dealing in any of the
Power Exchanges as the Certificate holder may consider
appropriate, and such Certificate shall be available for
dealing in accordance with the rules and bye-laws of such
Power Exchange :
Provided that the Power Exchanges shall obtain prior
approval of the Commission on the rules and bye-laws
including the mechanism for discovery of price of the
Certificates in the Power Exchange.
9. Pricing of Certificate.—(1) The Price of
Certificate shall be as discovered in the Power Exchange :
Provided that the Commission may, in consultation
with the Central Agency and Forum of Regulators from
time to time provide for the floor price and forbearance
price separately for solar and non-solar Certificates.
(2) The Commission while determining the floor price
and forbearance price, shall be guided inter alia by the
following principles :
Variation in cost of generation of different
renewable energy technologies falling under
solar and non-solar category, across States in
the country;
Variation in the Pooled Cost of Purchase across
States in the country;
Expected electricity generation from renewable
energy sources including
expected renewable energy capacity under
preferential tariff;
(ii) expected renewable energy capacity under
mechanism of certificates.
Renewable purchase obligation targets set by
various State Commissions.
10. Validity and Extinction of Certificates.—(1) The
Certificate once issued shall remain valid for three hundred
and sixty five days from the date of issuance of such
Certificate :
Provided that the Certificate issued to an eligible
entity for the electricity generated at a time when such
entity fulfilled the eligibility criteria for accreditation, shall
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remain valid for the said period of three hundred and sixty
five days, even if accreditation of such entity is revoked at
a later date.
(2) Subject to the time-limit as provided in clause (I)
of this regulation, a Certificate shall be deemed to have
been extinguished after it has been exchanged by way of
sale and purchase in the Power Exchange.
11. Fees and Charges.—(1) The Commission may
from time to time, based on the proposal in this regard from
the Central Agency, determine, by order, the fees and
charges payable by the eligible entities for participation in
the scheme for registration, eligibility of certificates,
issuance of certificates and other matters connected
therewith.
The fees and charges payable under these
regulations may include one time registration fee and
charges, annual fee and charges, the transaction fee and
charges for issue of certificate and charges for dealing in
the certificate in accordance with these regulations, as the
Commission may consider appropriate.
The fees and charges paid by the eligible entities
shall be collected by the Central Agency and utilised for
the purpose of meeting the cost and expense towards the
remuneration payable to the compliance auditors, the
officers, employees, consultants and representatives
engaged to perform the functions under these regulations.
12. Funding for capacity building of State Agency.—
(1) The Commission may, by order, provide for a certain
percentage of the proceeds from the sale of Certificates for
the purpose of training and capacity building of the State
Agencies and other facilitative mechanisms for the
implementation and monitoring of the detailed procedures
issued by the Central Agency.
(2) The proceeds as provided under clause (I) of this
regulation shall be collected by the power exchange and
transferred to the Commission or such agency as may be
directed by the Commission.
13. Appointment of compliance auditors.—{I) The
Commission may, in consultation with the Central Agency,
appoint from time to time compliance auditors to inquire
into and report on the compliance of these Regulations by
the person applying for registration, or on the compliance
by the renewable energy generators in regard to the
eligibility of the Certificates and all matters connected
thereto.
The compliance auditor shall have the
qualifications and experience as contained in the Schedule
to these Regulations :
Provided that the Commission may by order amend
the Schedule from time to time.
The Commission may from time to time fix the
remuneration and charges payable to such auditors and all
such amount payable shall be met out of the funds which
the Central Agency may collect from the eligible entities.
(6) Each Certificate issued shall represent one
Megawatt hour of electricity generated from renewable
energy source and injected into the grid.
8. Dealing in the Certificates.—( I ) Unless otherwise
specifically permitted by the Commission by order, the
Certificates shall be dealt only through the Power Exchange
and not in any other manner.
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Power to give Directions.—The Commission
may from time to time issue such directions and orders as
considered appropriate for the implementation of these
regulations and for the development of market in power for
Renewable Energy Sources.
Power to Relax.—The Commission may by
general or special order, for reasons to be recorded in
writing, and after giving an opportunity of hearing to the
parties likely to be affected may relax any of the provisions
of these regulations on its own motion or on an application
made before it by an interested person.
SCHEDULE
Qualification of Auditors
The auditor could be an individual person or a firm
having persons with qualification and experience in the
following areas :—
Finance or accounts or commerce; and
having qualifications and experience in the
field of engineering with specialisation in
generation, transmission or distribution of
electricity, experience that demonstrates an
adequate understanding of the electricity
sector, institutions involved including
Regulatory Commission, utilities, Government
Institutions, State Agencies and their roles and
responsibilities.
ALOK KUMAR, Secy.
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