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The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) is in the process of coming up with a separate tariff category for electric vehicles. Plans are afoot to consider introducing ‘Time of Day’ metering for charging such vehicles.
According to Sandesh Sharma, Principal Chief Engineer, CEA, necessary regulations in this regard are in the pipeline.
“We can use surplus power for electric vehicles. One option is to use solar power during day time when there are no peak hours. We are considering Time of Day metering for this (charging of electric vehicles),” Sharma told newspersons on the sidelines of an interactive session on ‘Powering the Future’, organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) here on Friday.
This would call for a ‘regulatory push’ and that is in works, he said.
The government has expressed its intention to make India an all-electric passenger vehicle market by 2030.
According to the Global EV Outlook 2017 published by the International Energy Agency, this would mean that the country would leapfrog to electric vehicles and bring over 50 million electric cars on its roads in less than 15 years, to reach just above 50 per cent of the total passenger light-duty vehicle (PLDV) fleet projected to be in circulation in the country. “Talking about rationalisation and simplification of tariff, we may look at one more category (of tariff) for electric vehicles,” Sharma said.
The CEA is also exploring the possibility of having a battery swapping model wherein firms’ aggregate batteries, charge them and swap with discharged batteries.
Power to Bangladesh
Power supply to Bangladesh from India, particularly from the Eastern States, is likely to increase in the coming years, he said.
India currently supplies 660 MW electricity to Dhaka on a daily basis. Of the total, 500 MW is supplied through Bhramara border in Murshidabad in West Bengal and the rest from Tripura.
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