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Opportunities viders is not permitted. The triggering events for ancillary services
are Trends of load/demand met and grid frequency, Extreme weath-
• EESL has launched SMNP (Smart Metering National Pro- er conditions (storms/cyclones, dust storms, fog, hail storms, etc.),
gram) to rollout smart metering solution in Uttar Pradesh, Generating unit or transmission line outages, loops flows leading to
haryana, Delhi, Bihar and Andhra Pradesh and aimed to congestion and any abnormal events (e.g. large generation outages,
deploy 250 million of smart meters in Indian utilities. This force majeure conditions, etc.).
rollout is proposed under the Build-Own-Operate-Transfer In 2012-13, India’s buying potential was 15.35% while the selling po-
(BOOT) model, wherein EESL will undertake all the capital tential was 4.57% at the national level. With consideration of 10% load
and operational expenditure with zero upfront investment shedding, the potential size increases to 23.5%. This potential is only
from states and utilities. because of co-skewness of the demand met in each state. The actual
• EESL, on its investment, shall earn a nominal internal rate of potential is however higher and would be 23.5% if load shedding in
return (IRR) through a mutually agreed automated payback energy terms, assumed conservatively to be 10%, is addressed. The
structure during the concession period, along with payment potential would also increase if all the states were to allow their large
security mechanism from state governments and utilities. industrial customers (greater than 1 MW) to procure from markets.
EESL arrange SMNP fund from the bilateral agreement with Several challenges have been faced in the implementation of the
the financial institutes and ADB (Asian Development Bank). Ancillary services such as ‘gate closure’ in the scheduling process,
mandating the quantum of reserves to be maintained, better load &
Ancillary Service renewable forecasting, need to be addressed. CERC is planning to
publish a staff paper on roadmap for ancillary services market with
The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission notified CERC (Ancil- an objective of expanding the market, enhance liquidity, reduce un-
lary Services Operations) Regulations (henceforth, RRAS Regulations) certainty and improve price discovery mechanism. The next step
th
on 13 August 2015. The objective of these regulations was to restore is to bring hydro power plants under the ambit of RRAS and finally,
the frequency at desired level and to relieve the congestion in the co-optimization of day-ahead de-centralised scheduling and real time
transmission network. Ancillary Services that consist of either Regula- centralized RRAS dispatch.
tion down Service or Regulation up Service have been defined as “Re-
serves Regulation Ancillary Services or RRAS”. All the four pillars of
the market design i.e. imbalances, congestion management, ancillary
services and scheduling and dispatch have been implemented in the
India. All the Generators, that are Regional Entities, and whose tariff
for the full capacity is determined or adopted by the CERC (Central
Electricity Regulatory Commission) have been mandated to provide
Ancillary Services as RRAS Providers. There are approximately 67
such power plants spread across India currently.
NLDC,(National Load Despatch Centre) through the RLDCs (Region-
al Load Despatch Centers), has been designated as the Nodal Agency
for Ancillary Services Operations. The Nodal Agency prepares the
Merit Order Stack based on the variable cost of generation. Separate 1 UN: World Urbanisation Prospects : 2018
stacks are prepared for Up and Down services. The RRAS (Routing 2 “Demand Analysis for Cooling by Sector in India in 2027”, AEEE
and Remote Access Service) Energy Accounting is being done by the 3 Bloomberg : A behind the scenes take on Li-ion battery prices.
4 Energy Storage System: Roadmap for India:2019-2032
respective RPC (Regional Power Committee) on weekly basis along
5 https://about.bnef.com/blog/behind-scenes-take-lithium-ion-battery-prices/
with DSM Account, based on interface meters data and schedule. A
6 The demand figure will obviously include the component coming from EVs and
separate RRAS statement is being issued by RPC along with Regional stationary storage (excluding consumer electronics)
DSM Account. Any post-facto revision in rates/charges by RRAS pro- 7 https://www.eeslindia.org/content/raj/eesl/en/Programmes/Trigeneration.html

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