Panaji
The Joint Electricity Regulatory Commission (JERC) for Goa and Union Territories has notified the Resource Adequacy Regulations, 2025, to create a structured framework for reliable electricity supply.
It lays down standards and rules for planning future power generation and transmission resources.
These new regulations were published in the Government of India’s Official Gazette on 6 June.
The regulations are aimed at ensuring that the future demand for power is reliably met by making it mandatory for the utility (in Goa’s case, the Electricity Department) to plan in advance for optimal power generation mixes with specified reserve margins.
Key components of the regulations include demand forecasting, generation planning, procurement strategies, and compliance monitoring.
Distribution licencees are now required to prepare short-, medium- and long-term plans for resource adequacy, ensuring sufficient contracted capacity to avoid shortages.
Meanwhile, the JERC is yet to give its final approval to the five-year business plan of the Electricity Department and its tariff plan proposing a nearly 6 per cent hike in power tariffs from the current financial year. It is expected to do so very soon.
