State-run Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) drew heavy flak on Friday for seeking to change the way 'prosumers' – consumers who also produce electricity and sell it to the grid – are metered and billed.
At an online hearing, individual prosumers owning grid-tied rooftop solar plants were joined by institutions such as the Agency for New and Renewable Energy Research and Technology (Anert) and Cochin International Airport Ltd (CIAL) in urging the State Electricity Regulatory Commission (KSERC) to reject the KSEB plea for 'modifications' to the KSERC (Renewable Energy and Net Metering Regulations).
Majority of the participants strongly objected to the KSEB proposal to replace net metering with the gross metering principle for billing prosumers and slash the settlement charge it pays them from ₹3.22 to ₹2.44 per unit.