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Renewable Energy Promotion Association (REPA) is India’s First Ever and only Professional (Public-Private) Not-for-Profit Body and Umbrella Association for Renewable Energy established U/s 25 of Companies Act 1956.
REPA's mandate is to conduct research, studies, training, and management, Establish Educational Institution(s) of Excellence imparting training and Education in the field of renewable Energy and other related subjects, arrange Conferences, Conclaves, Congresses, Expositions, Organize, hold, institute and promote Media Discussions / Forums / Programs / Interfaces in all spheres of renewable energy and energy efficiency and issues connected with the same. In Line with this mandate “REPA” to establish “WIRE” – World Institute for Renewable Energy – an ATAL – (Alma-Mater for Training & Advanced Learning) as a Mission objective.
To plan, promote, encourage, manage, assist and organize an integrated and efficient development of solar energy, wind energy, biomass energy, geothermal energy, tidal and wave energy and energy generated from Non-Conventional / Renewable Energy Resources in India and abroad including planning, investigation, research, design and preparation of preliminary, feasibility and definite project reports for construction, generation, operation and maintenance, renovation and modernization of power stations and projects, transmission, distribution, sale of power generation at stations in India and abroad.
To raise, utilize and / or disburse funds to support & conduct various surveys, evaluations, studies, projects and programs for achievements of the main objects of the Company.
REPA's MILESTONES & LEADERSHIP in India's Renewable Energy (Solar, Wind, Bio-Energy etc.)
"2nd REPA State Awards 2016" - State Excellence in Renewable Energy, Energy Sustainability & Energy Access were announced on Wednesday, 9th March 2016 in New Delhi concurrent with "2nd RPO (Renewable Purchase Obligation) Conclave 2016" with the Theme being 25% RE Portfolio by 2022 (Solar, Wind & Bio-Energy Combine) + Reviving Hydro Renewable to 25% of Power Generation Mix. 11 WINNER STATES OF INDIA - The Doer States of India that Won this year for RE Excellence at “2nd REPA State Awards 2016”.
We would like to state that RPO (Renewable Purchase Obligation) and RPoO (Renewable Portfolio Obligation), which we have recommend to the PMO to follow and replace the generation obligation with this idea. This is because the Markets, Investors & Financial Institutions are comfortable with the idea of “Portfolio”, which covers in an Umbrella all purchase, generation, transmission and activities of RE – Mix (Wind, Solar, Bio Energy and their combo etc.) as well as Management, Delivery and Distribution of RE. REPA has advocated this to the PMO for implementation and onward policy direction to concerned ministries [MNRE, MoP as well as CEA & the regulator CERC and state regulators (SERCs) as well as RE Nodal Agencies of States].
REPA – India’s only and pioneering Not-for-Profit association for all RE Promotion in the PPP domain include Solar, Wind, Bio-Energy, Nuclear Energy & Hydrogen Energy in the Renewable Energy (RE) sector and Off-shore Wind & Tidal Energy in the (Marine Renewable Energy) MRE sector. The potential for this combo for 2022 is a whopping 400 GW and with Investment Opportunity of Rs. 40 Lakh Crores (US $ 650 Bn) if properly structured as per joint research inputs of REPA & ENERTIA Foundation.
**** REPA and ENERTIA analysis on the matter exposes the fact that every State Utility & Discom and Power Generating Entities in India come out as violators of RPO, estimated penalty not levied and un-recovered thereof is in the region of Rs. 50,000 crores (US $ 7.25 billion) as of F.Y. 2015-16, violated and vitiated which is lying un-imposed by State Regulators (SERCs).
Such apathy at the hands of SERCs to impose rightfully the penalty for non-fulfillment of RPOs by Utility Discoms and Power Generators, especially in the backdrop of their having collected increased and revised tariffs from end-user consumers with the RE Obligation accounted thereof, will debilitate the nodal agencies and RE target implementation in India.
This becomes critical from the point of View of INDIA PM Narendra Modi’s agreements on RE commitments at COP21 and ISA with India targeting 100GW Solar by 2022, 50 GW – 75 GW Wind by 2022 and other RE capacity acquisition targets mandatory for "Mitigating Climate Change" and "Carbon Emissions Defrayment".
In addition, post the PMO – “Green Energy Commitments”, the parties who have committed to the PMO will need the following to be in place via MNRE and State Goverrnments, their utilities etc:
100 % Land acquisition support from Govt. of India and State Governments for their Solar, Wind and Hybrid Projects etc., whether they are big ones or even if they are MSMEs without discrimination to achieve the said “Green Energy Commitments”.
All “Green Energy Commitments” in the Mega Watt scale big or small (1 MW and above) without discrimination be provided debt access as “Green Energy Finance” at attractive interest rates in the region of 7% per annum. It must be noted here that even manufacturers of Renewable Energy equipments and technologies must access Working Capital at similar interest rates to propel “Make in India” to success in the Renewable Energy Manufacturing (REM) domain.
A separate “Fund for India’s Renewable Energy (FIRE)” is proposed by REPA (Renewable Energy Promotion Association) to achieve the goals of India’s renewable energy financing to operate as a hybridized Renewable Energy Debt Equity Fund (REDEF). The initial corpus of this India based fund should be 100 Bn US $ - equivalent to total investments of the PM led mission of 100 GW Solar by 2022. REPA can help in the modalities and formation of such an exclusive FIRE under REDEF and are ready for a government mandate to this effect.
The RE Cess on Coal (now Rs. 200 per ton); Electricity Cess on Conventional generator in lieu of RE (Urja Vikas Upkar) levied by several States and any other RE driven collection model of corpus creation by governments must be brought into a common “RE Corpus Fund” failing which there are multiple levies sans deployment and the State governments and for that matter even at central level, such funds lie unused or are susceptible to diversion to other expenses resulting in both widening fiscal deficit contributions, leads to fiscal indiscipline, complete lack of transparency and accountability and large scale corruption. These must be nipped in the bud right away by creating a single one window corpus “RE Corpus Fund” to be accounted for and be scrutinized and deployed for the purpose of RE. Such funds could enable Green Infra – Green Energy Corridor Development or any other purpose linked to the RE development and growth only.
Government must work towards a Guaranteed tariff / sustainable floor price for RE with PPAs (Power Purchase Agreements) from State DISCOMs, Generating & Bundling entities etc. for purchase of Renewable Energy (RE) under a strict RPO regime (RPO & RPoO). These must be backed with a 3 – month Escrow with first charge to the RE Provider / Seller / Generator.
It is very intriguing that the government circles even at Ministry of Power & MNRE corridors at Director and Advisory levels are complaining of energy off-take being low – which is a fallacy and in-fact a farce. That means today the government officials, whom we would not like to name, belonging to the old school of thought are in “Arithmetic – linear – thinking” that we have only about “150 GW of demand of the total installed capacity of 310 GW as of December 2016”.
They completely forget that Discoms, which are the principal buyers, are reeling under accumulated losses of Rs. 5 to 6 Lac Crores and which has been compounded by an untimely implementation of the new grid code by CERC in a “Cart before The Horse” situation. So the DISCOMs have no money to purchase power due to such fiscal indiscipline. In-order to maintain Grid frequencies matching Grid-code revenue points in new grid code. The DISCOMs have resorted to further load-shedding resulting in more and more of our country being sent off the grid and consequently triggering of lower PLFs and thereof higher tariffs. The fuel price and coal import imbroglio adds to this story with high “Fuel Adjustment Costs” impacting electricity tariffs that move north-wards. Not to mention that the older coal based power plants are guzzling more coal day-by-day, while notionally they seem to be producing cheaper power, thanks to their fully depreciated assets. This situation is used to discourage the RE (Renewable Energy) and also commit the crime of denying “Energy Access (Read Power, Electricity & Energy Resources Access)” to our common man – the Aam Janata. REPA advocates that Let us for God’s sake (read for India’s sake) move away from such skewed, crooked and anti-poor and anti-environmental thoughts as this defeats the very purpose of promoting and deploying Renewable Energy (RE), denies access to clean, green & sustainable resources to our citizens and will drive the nation in the medium and long term to “Energy Poverty” affecting our “Energy Security” & “Energy Sustainability”.
REPA initiative “Mahatma Gandhi National Energy Efficiency Conclave 2015” (MG-NEEC 2015) and Concurrent “REPA – NEEC – India Energy Efficiency Awards 2015” was held on Thursday,1st October 2015.
"8th EnPOWER Solar 2015" organised by SEFI (Solar Energy Forum of India) under the aegis of REPA and concurrent "2nd SOURYA URJA PURASKAR 2015 - India's Premier Awards for SolarPower Sector" was held in December 2015.
NB: "REPA" Representations to Honourable President of India, Honourable PM of India & MNRE, IREDA etc. can be accessed via Blog : http://renewableenergypromotionassociation.blogspot.in/
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