Amid its battle against a summer-season power crisis, the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) is setting out to examine how the growth of solar power has impacted Kerala’s power system.
Rapid solar penetration in recent years has also given rise to issues that are both technical and financial in nature. The KSEB has now formed a nine-member panel headed by the Deputy Chief Engineer (System Operation Circle, Kalamassery) to study six aspects linked to the topic.
The panel’s terms of reference span the impact of solar power plants and renewable generation in general on power quality in the low tension (LT) system, technical issues connected to transformers arising from the installation of solar power plants and commercial aspects linked to the amendments proposed in the draft Renewable Energy and Net Metering Regulations.
