The Chhattisgarh State Electricity Regulatory Commission (CSERC) has issued amendments to its CSERC (Grid Interactive Distributed Renewable Energy Sources) Regulations, 2019, for distributed solar power projects.The regulations will come into force from the date of publication in the Chhattisgarh gazette.

As per the proposed amendments, cross-subsidy surcharges and state load dispatch center (SLDC) charges are exempted for the entire life of the projects for the first 500 MW of open access solar projects. The amendment would apply to the first 500 MW capacity that achieved or would achieve commercial operation within two years from the notification of the regulations.

In an earlier amendment, the Commission allowed the exemption of cross-subsidy surcharges and transmission and wheeling charges for the first 300 MW of open access solar projects.