MEDA’s Vision – For next five years

“RENEWABLE PURCHASE OBLIGATION (RPO),MAHARASHTRA”

MAHARASHTRA ENERGY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY(MEDA)MAHARASHTRA ENERGY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY(MEDA)

Presented by:-

Dr. J. V. Torane

General Manager (REC, R&D)

MEDA, Pune

RPO Regulation highlights

•On June 30, 2008, National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) has set anambitious RPO target of 15% by 2020, it is the state electricity regulatorycommissions (SERC) that set year-wise targets in their respective states.

•Accordingly, Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission vide its Order dated 7thJune 2010 has declared (RENEWABLE PURCHASE OBLIGATION, ITSCOMPLIANCE AND IMPLEMENTATION OF REC FRAMEWORK)REGULATIONS, 2010 in the State of Maharashtra and is valid upto FY 2015-16.

•To implement this regulation Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission vide itsorder dated.1st July,2010 has designed Maharashtra Energy Development Agency(MEDA) as a State Agency to undertake the functions as State Agency envisagedunder the MERC RPO-REC Regulations, 2010.

•The Main objective of this regulation is to promote co-generation from renewablesources and generation of electricity from renewable sources and is to specify apercentage for procurement of energy generated from such sources on the basis oftotal consumption of electricity within the area of a distribution licensee.

The Regulation covers the RPO obligation who deals with the power transactions / utilization in thestate i.e. 1MW / 1MVA & above. The entities involved in the state are;

•All Distribution Licensee(s) within the state

•All Captive User(s) within the state (1MW and above)

•All Open Access Consumers within the state (1MVA and above)

Obligation to meet by all these entities are as per below;

RPO Regulation highlights & RPO target in the state

Year

Minimum Quantum of purchase (in %) from renewable energysources (in terms of energy equivalent in kWh)

Solar

Non-Solar (Other RE)

Total

2010-11

0.25%

5.75%

6.0%

2011-12

0.25%

6.75%

7.0%

2012-13

0.25%

7.75%

8.0%

2013-14

0.50%

8.50%

9.0%

2014-15

0.50%

8.50%

9.0%

2015-16

0.50%

8.50%

9.0%

Mode of RPO FULFILLMENTMode of RPO FULFILLMENT

- Own generation or procurement of power from RE

developer or

- Purchase of RE from other licensee or

- Purchase of renewable energy certificate (REC) or

- Combination of any of the above options.

*Distribution Licensee(s) shallmeet 0.1 % per year of its Non-Solar (other RE) RPO obligationfor the period from FY 2010-11 toFY 2012-13 and up to 0.2 % of itsNon-solar (other RE) RPOobligation for the period from FY2013-14 to FY 2015-16 by way ofpurchase from Mini Hydro orMicro Hydro power project.

RPO Compilation Mechanism

•For collection of RPO data MEDA has prepared theformats of RPO data submission by obligated entitiesto MEDA on regular basis and same is approved byMERC. These data formats are mainly of two types;

a) Quarterly RPO data reporting on provisional basisand

b) Yearly Final RPO data reporting on CA Certifiedbasis.

•These RPO data reporting formats are devisedseparately for distribution licensees as well as for CPP-OA consumers.

Format I,II,III & IV

RPO Compilation Mechanism…..contd

•The detailed reporting and compilation procedure laydown is more elaborated in RPO Manual and can bereferred at MEDA website www.mahaurja.com underRPO/REC.

•After receipt of data from concern entity the data isfurther validated for its authenticity from MSLDC/concern DISCOM.

•Thus, compiled data submitted to Hon. Commission forfurther approval and decision on shortfall if any.

•The year wise cumulative RPO achievement by DISCOMs from last five years is shown inbelow table-

-Hon. Commission vide its order in Case no.49 of 2013 directed MEDA to developappropriate mechanism for monitoring and compliance of RPO in case of DistributionLicensees, Captive Users and Open Access Consumers in order to ensure their RPOcompliance. The terms of reference to develop RPO Mechanism;

i.Develop mechanism for listing and accreditation of Captive Users and OpenAccess Consumers and set rules for accreditation of Captive Users and OpenAccess Consumers.

ii.Develop mechanism for establishing data flow and information exchange betweenvarious entities involved (Open Access Consumers to DISCOMs, Captive Users toElectrical Inspector’s Office (PWD), DISCOMs to MEDA and Electrical Inspector’sOffice (PWD) to MEDA etc.), and to verify RPO compliance by Captive Users andOpen Access Consumers.

iii.Meet on bi-monthly basis to review and, modify the mechanism, if found necessary.

iv.Provide continued assistance to MEDA in verification of RPO compliance byCaptive Users and Open Access Consumers.

v.MEDA shall act as convenor of the Working Committee, it shall arrange forsecretarial support to Working Committee, maintain minutes of Working Committeemeetings and be responsible for co-ordinating and reporting the developments toCommission on bi-monthly basis.

vi.The Working Committee shall submit its report to the Commission within sixmonths from the date of formation of the Committee based on the abovementioned terms of reference.

Reference - MERC Order in Case No. 49 of 2013

–After the direction from Hon. Commission, MEDA initiated steps and shortlisted M/s. ESDS Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd, Nasik for this assignment.

–MEDA vide its letter dated 25/03/2014 awarded work to M/s. ESDS SoftwareSolutions Pvt. Ltd for Establishment of Web Portal for RPO Mechanism.

–On the assignment, M/s. ESDS Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd, Nasik hasdeveloped RPO Portal for Maharashtra which is brief below herewith;

RPO Web Portal Mechanism is for obligated entities under RPO Mechanismin the state of Maharashtra. It is structured in a manner describe as below;

1.For CPP & For OA consumers

- Sign Up & Log in

- RPO data acquisition & compilation

- RPO reporting to MERC

2.For DISCOM

- Log in

- RPO data acquisition & compilation

- RPO reporting to MERC

RPO Web Portal Mechanism

RPO Web Portal Flow Chart- For CPP and OA consumers

Entity Login

CPP Entity

OA Entity

send to entity for

Accreditation

send to entity for

Accreditation

application

Accreditation

application

CPP Acc. App.

Cert. generation

OA Acc. App.

Cert. generation

submission by CPP

submission

by OA consumer

Form-IV

Form-III

Form-I

Form-II

Data send to MEDA (Soft & Hard copy)

Data send to CEI/DISCOM for verification

from MEDA (Soft copy)

Verified data received by MEDA (Soft copy)

Data submission to MERC (Hard copy)

Form-IV

Form-III

Form-I

Form-II

Data send to MEDA (Soft & Hard copy)

Data send to MSLDC/DISCOM for verification

from MEDA (Soft copy)

Verified data received by MEDA (Soft copy)

Data submission to MERC (Hard copy)

RPO Web Portal Flow Chart- For DISCOMs

Submission to MERC

DISCOM

data submission

Form I

Form II

Form III

Form IV

Data send to MSLDC

for verification from MEDA

Verified data received

by MEDA

OA- Sign up and Log in

OA Sign up

•After completing the Sign up procedure, thecredentials automatically will be sent toentity’s email id for further progress in fillingof their forms.

•After logging in, the entity will fill all detailsmentioned in form (shown in next slide)(illustration form will be made available tothem.) subjected to approval by MEDA.

OA Sign up ….cntd

OA Log in

OA Log in

•After this procedure, the form will come to MEDAand acknowledgement message to entity will beas shown below

“CPP/OA accreditation application is completed.Your application is pending for approval fromMEDA. You are requested to submit the hardcopy of web application along with necessaryproofs self attested by authorized signatory.”

•Once MEDA approves the application of entity, itwill get accreditation code acknowledging as anobligated entity. After that the link of datasubmission will get open to entity, and entity hasto login to fill the RPO data form and submit it toMEDA.

•At preliminary stage the system must ask theaccreditation code to entity in order to ensure theobligation status of the entity.