R. K. Singh Launches Pan-India Real-Time Market in Electricity
R. K. Singh Launches Pan-India Real-Time Market in Electricity

R. K. Singh Launches Pan-India Real-Time Market in Electricity

  • India achieved a milestone with the official launch of real-time electricity market in the country, enabling consumers, including distribution companies (discoms) and captive users, to buy power on exchanges just half-an-hour before delivery.
  • The shortest period of trading in electricity in the country has taken place a day ahead of the market, meaning you have to place order for supplies at least a day in advance.
  • The pan-India real-time market (RTM) was launched by Minister of State for Power and New and Renewable Energy R.K. Singh through video conference in the capital.This has placed Indian electricity market among a league of few electricity markets in the world which have RTM.
  • Minister said real-time market is an organized market platform to enable buyers and sellers pan-India to meet their energy requirement closer to real-time operation.
  • Introduction of real-time market will bring required flexibility in the market to provide real-time balance while ensuring optimal utilization of the available surplus capacity in the system.
  • Real-time market would be for every 30 minutes in a day based on double-sided closed auction with a uniform price. The concept of “Gate Closure” has been introduced for bringing in the desired firmness in schedules during the hours of market operation. Buyers/sellers will have the option of placing buy/sell bids for each 15-minute time-block.
  • The proposed real-time market would provide an alternate mechanism for discoms to access a larger market at competitive prices. On the other hand, generators would also benefit by participating in the real-time market with their un-requisitioned capacity.
  • National Load Despatch Centre-POSOCO is facilitating necessary automation in coordination with power exchanges to ensure faster transactions and settlements in the real-time market framework.
  • The average power tariff in the RTM test trade at India Energy Exchange (IEX) on the first day of operation on Monday stood at Rs 1.55 per unit, 42 per cent cheaper than the ”day ahead market”, official data showed.
  • The government of India”s target of 175 GW RE Capacity by 2022 is driving accelerated renewable penetration pan-India. The real-time market would help to mitigate challenges to the grid management due to intermittent and variable nature of renewable energy generation and, therefore, help to integrate higher quantum of renewable energy resources into the grid.
  • It is expected that shorter bidding time, faster scheduling and defined processes (e.g. gate closure) are expected to enable the participants to access resources throughout the all-India grid, promoting competition. It would lead to better portfolio management by the utilities with efficient power procurement planning, scheduling, despatch, and imbalance handling.
  • The distribution companies would be able to manage their power purchase portfolio optimally and need not tie up excess capacity. It would lead to cost optimization of power purchase and serving the consumers with reliable supply as any last-minute requirement can easily be bought from the real-time market.

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