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New Rules to Meet Summer Power Demand

  • With summer expected to be a testing time for power discoms in the city due to new northern grid regulations , Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) has framed new regulations for demand side management (DSM) to keep pace with the growing demand. Once the regulations are notified, DERC officials said that distribution licences will be required to make DSM an integral part in their day to day operations. The regulatory body has also extended the date - till the end of the month - by which stakeholders can submit their comments to the new regulations. The earlier date had already expired.

  • In the regulations, DERC had said that discoms will have to form a DSM cell within a month after adopting the new regulations. The cell will be responsible for load research and development of baseline data, formulation of DSM plan and design and development of DSM projects."The discoms will have to submit a perspective DSM plan for a control period of a year. The staff paper for the DSM regulations has been prepared and being circulated for public feedback after which a hearing will be held,'' said officials. The plans will have to be approved by the commission so that the funding can be covered from average revenue requirement petitions.Delhi discoms cannot be dependent on the grid to overdraw power during peak hours after CERC notified that the grid frequency will be tightened from April 2.

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