Business Line ( 30 Nov )
carries following news report :
“
Govt may amend Electricity Act to allow e-vehicle charging stations to sell
power “
The Centre is set to make changes to the amendment to the Electricity Act, 2003 to allow electric vehicle charging stations to sell power.
“The NITI Aayog is preparing the roadmap for this. We will propose changes to the
amendment to the Electricity Act,” a government official told BusinessLine.
[For my version, see:
The Electricity Amendment Bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha in December
2014, and has been pending there since then. “The government will have to
introduce changes to the proposed amendment to allow retailing of power by e-vehicle charging
stations. This is because the current amendment does not include a
provision to allow a non-discom to sell power,” said PK Pujari, former Power
Secretary.
Effectively, the charging station will be acting as an intermediary between the discom ( distribution
company ) and the e-vehicle
owner, added Pujari.
“At the moment, no
one apart from a discom can own power. This means only a discom can set
up a charging station,” Saurabh Kumar, Chairman, Energy Efficiency Services
Ltd, had told BusinessLine.
“At the moment, there cannot be any
private sector participation, unless the regulations allow
private players to set up charging stations. This is something the
government is working on and I hope it happens very soon, because unless you
have charging stations across the country, you cannot expect e-mobility to really happen.”
But the government will also have to define a nodal authority to monitor
these charging stations. To this Pujari said: “Since a small business cannot
approach the State and Central electricity regulator, the government will also
have to establish a nodal authority to regulate and license the charging
stations. The discoms can act as regulators for these charging stations and can
fix a rate of purchase for them to ensure that there is a margin for the
business, too.”
MY TAKE :
As I am fond of saying , this is an “
Incremental / half way house “ , like applying a Band-Aid plaster on a deep
wound !
Just allowing “ Charging Stations “ to be able to “ Sell Electricity “ and
permitting Private Sector to set up such “ Charging Stations “ , will miserably fall short of our
goals for E-Mobility ( estimated 500
million vehicles in India to be electric by 2030 )
As it is , currently we have approx. 60,000 petrol / diesel pumps in India
, which fill up a vehicle in ( ave ) , 10 minutes
But a Lithium-ion Battery of an Electric Car ( approx. 100 Kwh ) , needs 300 minutes for a full
charge ( 30
times longer ! ). Will we need 30 times many more Charging
Stations ?
I hope that Road Map which NITI Aayog is supposed to be
working on , is as detailed as the “ India’s
Energy Storage Mission “
And I hope , it recommends amending Electricity Act
whereby ,
Anyone can generate and SELL electricity , anytime and to anyone and at any price !
For reaching the target of 100 GW of Solar power
generation by Nov 2022,
we need to install 1.5 GW
capacity EVERY MONTH for the next 60 month ( remaining 85 GW after current
installations totalling 15 GW )
That
would require an investment of Rs 10,000 Crore per month , every month for the next 60 months !
( @ One Billion dollars per GW )
Part of this investment will have to come from Roof Top Solar projects , to be set up by :
·
An Individual home-owner ( who may also want to sell
surplus power to a neighbour )
·
A Coop Housing Society wanting its huge unutilized terrace
to produce solar power, for its members
·
A Business which will install these roof-tops at its
own cost and is allowed to sell power to the residents of a building
[ Business Line / 30 Nov :
Mumbai-based CleanMax
Solar is a pioneer in the ‘opex model’ in
India, where the company puts up solar plants— rooftop or otherwise—at its own
cost, and sells the power
directly to customers. ]
·
Millions of unemployed rural youth wanting to set themselves up in the “ Solar Electricity Selling “ business , with a small investment of Rs 25,000/ - and recharging
:
300 Watt
HANS Solar PowerPacks with HANS Solar Briefcase
Surely , our Policy Makers cannot be unaware of the following benefits to
millions of rural youths generating / consuming ( and , even “ selling “ ) solar power :
· Not need to erect /maintain miles of transmission lines to those huts
· No need to install and monitor Electricity ( Smart ) Meters
· No need to collect monthly payments for the power consumed
· In fact , no need to PRODUCE
coal-based power elsewhere , in the first place
· No pollution due to power from coal-based power plants
· No need to dig or import expensive coal / or worry about low plant-load
factor
· No need to worry about power thefts / transmission losses !
· No load shedding ( so common in rural areas ) for “ non-payment of bills
/ low
consumption “
· No need to worry about PEAK / LEAN load periods
· No need to keep Subsidizing Power for ever
Please, liberate our rural youth from the tyranny of
this hundred year old “ Electricity
Act “ !
It has no
place in 2017 ( - even if you do not want this BOLD REFORM to ensure absolute
majority
in 2019 elections )
Dear Shri Jaitleyji :
It is time
to end the monopoly of the State / Big Houses , in generation / sale of
Electricity
There is
nothing like competition to decrease COST / increase QUALITY and speed-up DELIVERY
of electricity
Please ,
do not levy any GST on sale of Electricity to ensure its unlimited availability
at Rs 1 / Kwh
https://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2017/01/solar-power-at-rs-1-per-kwh.html
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03 Dec 2017
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