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Kerala Electricity Minister K. Krishnankutty connected Monday informed the Assembly that definite proposals successful the Draft National Electricity Policy, 2026, are apt to adversely interaction Kerala’s powerfulness proviso exemplary and societal circumstances.
Replying to questions successful the House, Mr. Krishnankutty said the proposals to beforehand contention successful energy proviso and let aggregate organisation licencees successful a proviso portion would person antagonistic interaction connected consumers successful the State.
The argumentation proposals for reducing cross-subsidies and exempting organisation licensees from the Universal Service Obligation would pb to tariff hikes, helium said. Mr. Krishnankutty said proposals specified arsenic encouraging backstage information successful powerfulness transmission and distribution, unbundling the State Transmission Utility (STU) and the State Load Dispatch Centre (SLDC) are against the interests of these nationalist assemblage entities.
The Union Ministry of Power had released the Draft National Electricity Policy (NEP) 2026 successful January for nationalist consultation with stakeholders. The policy, erstwhile finalised, would regenerate the existing NEP notified successful 2005.
State’s feedback
According to Mr. Krishnankutty, the Kerala authorities and the Power section were successful the process of preparing the State’s feedback connected the draught policy. He told the Assembly connected Monday that the State’s feedback would question to support its interests and that of energy consumers. The peculiar condition of the State, user extortion and continuation of the cross- subsidy strategy would fig precocious connected the State’s priorities, according to him.
