Annual energy audits a must for Discoms, says Power Ministry
April 19, 2021
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The Ministry of Power has made energy audits an annual requirement for electricity distribution companies in a regulation notified on Thursday.
“Every electricity distribution company shall conduct energy audit (accounting) for every financial year within a period of three months from the expiry of relevant financial year. There shall not be a gap of more than twelve months between two energy audits (accounting),” according to the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (Manner and Intervals for Conduct of Energy Audit (Accounting) in Electricity Distribution Companies) Regulations, 2021.
The Discoms were earlier mandated to conduct an external audit once every three years.