NEW DELHI: India’s clean-energy producers have flagged the lack of effective weather forecasting models in the country, as the power regulator proposes stricter rules on how closely developers must adhere to their grid supply commitments.
India’s power regulator, the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission, issued tighter rules in a September draft for wind and solar power producers under the Deviation Settlement Mechanism, a system that fines companies when their actual power supply to the grid strays too far from their forecasts.
The draft framework aims to gradually narrow the permissible gap between the amount of electricity producers commit to supply and what they actually generate and was due to come into effect from April next year.
In a public hearing, several clean-energy developers flagged the absence of precise hyperlocal weather forecasting models in the country that can aid them in meeting their promised power generation to the grid.
Adani Green Energy, which has the country’s largest clean-energy portfolio, said that despite collaborating with several overseas technology firms in Switzerland and France and using deep learning models, it is still facing challenges in predicting hyper-local weather for its projects. — Reuters
