Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission (“HERC”) amended its procedure for Forecasting, Scheduling and Deviation Settlement of Solar & Wind Generation (“Forecasting Procedure”) issued in terms of Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission (Forecasting, Scheduling and Deviation Settlement for Solar and Wind Generation) Regulations, 2019 (“DSM Regulations”) vide order dated 22.05.2025.
DSM Regulations were issued in the year 2019. In terms of DSM Regulations, the wind and solar power generators were under an obligation to appoint Qualified Coordinated Agency (“QCA”) to coordinate between generator and load dispatch centres for scheduling and dispatch of the electricity.
In terms of DSM Regulations, supply of the Electricity by renewable energy generating will not be considered a valid supply if it will not be communicated by QCA to load dispatch centres.
Till the filing of the petition, there was not a single QCA, being registered in the state of Haryana. Various QCAs had applied, however their applications were getting rejected, due to one onerous net-worth requirement given in the Forecasting procedure issued in terms of DSM Regulations.
Due to non-appointment of QCA, various renewable power generating assets were stranded because electricity supply was not being recognised by the state load dispatch centre. Resultantly, the Electricity Consumers were not able to claim receipt of the electricity without recognition of the supply by load dispatch centres.
Cleanmax Enviro Energy Solutions Private Limited (“Cleanmax”) approached Dentons Link Legal (“DLL”) to provide assistance because supply by Cleanmax generating station to its consumer namely ASK Automative limited was not being recognised by the appropriate government authority.
Electricity Regulatory Commissions (“ERCs”) have power to issue regulations and also have power to amend regulations. However, ERCs are very conservative in amending any regulations on petition filed by any affected party. 99% of such petitions have been dismissed by ERCs. HERC in the past had refused to revise net-worth requirement on earlier petition(s) filed by trading agencies.
DLL pleaded a case of unintended vacuum in renewable generation supply and further pleaded that in absence of the requisite amendment, Haryana cannot achieve its target of renewable generation.
HERC was pleased to issue appropriate amendment in the formula for calculation of Net worth and thereby removed the bottleneck in supply of the electricity by renewable energy pooling stations.
Cleanmax and ASK Automative Limited were represented before HERC by Aditya K Singh, Partner and assisted by Anukriti Jain, Principal Associate and Anjali Dhingra, Associate.