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New Delhi: The government has proposed to cut the approval time for electricity connection for electric vehicle charging stations to three days for metropolitan areas from seven days earlier and seven days in municipal areas from 15 days, in line with the amended Electricity Rules.
The draft revised guidelines on charging infrastructure for EV by the power ministry issued on Monday also states charge point operators in rural areas should get connection in 15 days against 30 days.
The views on the draft guidelines are to be submitted within 30 days. As per the draft norms, distribution companies will have to create customer friendly online single window clearance system to expedite grant of electricity connections to EV chargers.
State nodal agencies and city authorities will carry out periodic mapping, at least once in every year, of the geographic distribution of potential EV charging demand, it said.
The tariff for supply of electricity to EV charging stations is largely unchanged and is proposed to be a single part tariff and not exceed the “average cost of supply” till March 31, 2026.
The cost of supply by distribution licensee to EV charging station will be 0.7 times of the average cost of supply during solar hours and 1.3 times during non-solar hours as per the proposal. Another aspect the draft norms propose is the requirement of density/distance between two charging stations.
It says at least one charging station shall be available in a grid of 1 km x 1 km in the urban limits by FY2030, compared with 3 km X 3 km earlier. It further proposes one charging station shall be set up at every 20 km on both sides of highways and roads.
Separate metering arrangements is to be made for EV charging stations so that consumption may be recorded and billed as per applicable tariff for EV charging stations.
