Green Energy Open Access Portal

Posted on November 15, 2022 by admin1 1678

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Recently, the Union Minister of Power and New and Renewable Energy launched the Green Energy Open Access Portal.

About

Aim:
- To ensure affordable, reliable, sustainable, and green energy for all and in continuation of several initiatives to promote clean and green energy by the Government of India
Features:
- Any consumer with a connected load of 100 kW or above can get Renewable Energy through open access from any Renewable Energy generating plant set up by himself; or by any developer.
- The application for open access can be made on this portal.
- The open access has to be granted within 15 days or else it will be deemed to have been granted.
Open access to stakeholders including:
- Open access participants, traders, Power Exchanges, National / Regional / State Load Despatch Centres, Central/State transmission utilities.
Significance:
- The portal provides a transparent, simplified, uniform and streamlined procedure for granting open access to green energy.
- It will be key to facilitating the deepening of electricity markets and enabling the integration of Renewable Energy (RE) resources into the grid.
Electricity (Promoting Renewable Energy through Green Energy Open Access) Rules, 2022:
- The Ministry of Power notified the Electricity (Promoting Renewable Energy through Green Energy Open Access) Rules, 2022 in June 2022.
- The rules aim at the promotion of the generation, purchase and consumption of green energy including the energy from waste-to-energy plants.
- The rules support India’s vision of a transition to clean energy with the participation of all generators, DISCOMs, and other stakeholders.
India’s Status
- India is contributing only 3.5 percent to the global emission despite having about 17 percent of the world population.
- India is leading the clean energy transition globally and has the fastest growth of RE capacity addition.

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