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Maharashtra: MSEDCL wants no penalty over renewable energy targets

By : Sustainability ..., Feb 25, 2020

MSEDCL has filed a petition in Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) urging the Commission not to levy any penalty on it for failing to meet renewable energy targets, till 2022-23. The discom has claimed that despite repeated efforts by MSEDCL to procure power...

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Maharashtra: Few takers for electric vehicle charging stations

By : Sustainability ..., Feb 18, 2020

Pune is moving at a slow pace towards e-mobility. Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL) officials said there were few takers for the three electric vehicle charging stations set up by the company in Pune. The power utility had set up its first...

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Maharashtra: Solar players urge MERC to scrap GSC

By : Sustainability ..., Feb 12, 2020

A large number of solar equipment suppliers and manufacturers have urged Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) to scrap grid support charge (GSC) proposed by MSEDCL on solar rooftop consumers. Vanamati hall, where the commission held a public hearing on MSEDCL’...

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Maharashtra: MSEDCL ups its price to woo solar power makers

By : Sustainability ..., Jan 20, 2020

In view of the poor response to its tender for buying 1,350MW solar power, state discom MSEDCL has increased the maximum price to attract producers. The company had floated tenders for buying 1,350MW with a cap of Rs3.15 per unit but got bids for only 5MW. Now it has...

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Maharashtra: MSEDCL proposes astronomical GSC for solar rooftop

By : Sustainability ..., Jan 16, 2020

Even as solar rooftop consumers were celebrating the relief given to them by Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC), MSEDCL has dropped a bombshell. It has proposed astronomical grid support charges, which will make solar power costlier than its own power.

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MSEDCL installs only 12,500 of 1 lakh solar pumps targeted by March 2020

By : Sustainability ..., Dec 2, 2019

Former energy minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule had given a target to MSEDCL (Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited) of installing one lakh solar farm pumps by March 2020 under Mukhyamantri Saur Krishi Yojana (MSKY). So far, it has been able to install...

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Maharashtra: Draft regulations for net metering of solar power called anti-consumer

By : Sustainability ..., Nov 7, 2019

Certain provisions in the draft regulations for net metering of solar power have evoked criticism. The grid-interactive rooftop renewable energy generating systems regulations, 2019, were drafted by the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) and are open for...

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Maharashtra power utility gets additional 1,000 MW cheap solar power

By : Sustainability ..., Feb 22, 2019

After tying up for 1,000MW solar power at the rate of Rs 2.71 and Rs 2.72 per unit in 2018, Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Co Ltd (MSEDCL) will now sign power purchase agreements (...

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12 cos show interest in 1,000MW floating solar plant in Solapur

By : Sustainability ..., Jan 14, 2019

MSEDCL’s 1,000MW solar floating plant at Ujani dam in Solapur district has evoked tremendous response with 12 top companies participating in the pre-bid meeting held in Mumbai. Interestingly,...

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Maharashtra government to tax power consumers to finance solar pumps for farmers

By : Sustainability ..., Nov 5, 2018

The Maharashtra government has imposed an electricity surcharge of 10 paise per unit on industrial and commercial consumers to finance its scheme to provide 25,000 solar pumps to farmers, a...

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