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Aruna Kumarankandath

New Draft Wind Power Guidelines Seek to Reform Sector Through Payment Security

By

Aruna Kumarankandath

The tariff rules for thermal power are different from wind power. Thermal power plants have two-part-revenue: fixed and variable. If a thermal power plant is asked not to feed generated power to the grid, it will still be compensated the fixed part of the tariff. Wind plants do not receive this since there is no cost of fuel, so there is no fixed-part tariff.