Summary
The Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission on Thursday held a public hearing for redetermination of tariff for grid interactive megawatt scale power plants. The hearing comes after a discussion paper on this was issued by the electricity regulator in May.
Currently, there is 84 MegaWatt Peak (MWp) of solar photovoltaic power generation in the state according to the KERC with 600 MWp set to be commissioned. The discussion paper proposes parameters for redetermination of tariff for MW scale solar PV plants, which include factors like life, term and tariff design, capacity utilisation, capital costs, debt-equity ration and operational and maintenance costs a......