Electric Vehicle

The government of India has undertaken multiple initiatives to promote manufacturing and adoption of electric vehicles in India. With support of the government, electric vehicles have started penetrating in the Indian market. However, availability of adequate Charging Infrastructure is one of the key requirements for accelerated adoption of electric vehicles in India.

Availability of adequate Charging Infrastructure is one of the key requirements for accelerating the adoption of electric vehicles in India. In this regard, Ministry of Power has issued “Charging Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles – Guidelines and Standards” mentioning the roles and responsibilities of various stakeholders at Central & State level, for expediting the development of public EV charging infrastructure across the country. Ministry of Power has designated Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) as the Central Nodal Agency (CNA) for the National-level rollout of charging infrastructure in the country.

The Haryana Govt. has been designated New and Renewable Energy Department, Haryana as State Nodal Agency for creation of charging infrastructure for electric vehicles in the State. Vide Notification dated 03.12.2020.

Ministry of Power, GoI, vide dated 14^th January 2022, has issued revised guidelines. Following are salient features of the revised consolidated Guidelines:

EV owners allowed to charge the EVs at their residence / offices using their existing electricity connections and de-licensing the setting up of EV charging infrastructure, provided that, such PCS meet the technical, safety as well as performance standards and protocols.
Setting up of Public Charging Stations (PCS) shall be a de-licensed activity and any individual/entity is free to set up public charging stations provided that, such stations meet the technical, safety as well as performance standards and protocols laid down below as well as any further norms/standards/ specifications laid down by Ministry of Power and Central Electricity Authority (CEA) from time to time.
Land available with the government / public entities shall be provided for installation of PCS to a government / public entity on a revenue sharing basis at a fixed rate of Re1/kWh (used for charging) to be paid to the land-owning agency for such PCS business payable on quarterly basis.
The revenue sharing model may also be adopted by the public land-owning agency for providing the land to a private entity for installation of Public Charging Stations on bidding basis with floor price of Re1/kWh.
Timelines for providing connectivity: As per the new guidelines, PCS will be provided with connectivity within 7 days in metro cities, 15 days in other municipal areas and 30 days in rural areas.
The tariff for supply of electricity to Public EV Charging Stations and Battery Charging Stations (BCS) shall be a single part tariff and shall not exceed the “Average Cost of Supply” till 31.03.2025. The tariff applicable for domestic consumption shall be applicable for domestic charging.
The state government shall fix the ceiling of service charges to be charged by such charging stations.
Charging Station may also be installed by Housing societies, Malls, Office Complexes, Restaurants, and Hotels etc. with a provision to allow charging of visitor’s vehicles which are permitted to come in its premises. The tariff charged shall be as per order of the Commission in its ARR/Tariff order.

Industry & Commerce Department, Haryana has notified Electric Vehicle Policy-2022. In the policy, there is provision for Incentive to Privately owned Public Charging Stations/ Privately owned Swapping Station. The Incentive shall be provided by I&C deptt.

Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission (Terms and Conditions for setting up Charging Infrastructure, Tariff and other Regulatory issues for Electric Vehicles), Regulations, 2021 has been notified on 23.12.2021.

Both the DISCOMs have added new category as “Electric Charging Station” for online apply for new connection for EV Charging stations in the State of Haryana.

Regarding “Database of Public EV Charging Stations”, Ministry of Power, Govt. of India vide No. 12/2/2018-EV (Comp. No. 244347) dated 14th January 2022 has stated as follows:-

“Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) shall create and maintain a national online database of all the Public Charging Stations in consultation with State Nodal Agencies (SNAs). Bureau of Energy Efficiency shall create a Web-Portal/ Software/ Mobile Application for the database of Public Charging Stations throughout the country”.

Bureau of Energy Efficiency in its capacity as the Central Nodal Agency has developed a National Web Portal and a Mobile Application to facilitate in-vehicle navigation to the nearest public EV charger, a web-portal for public EV charging station registration and an online web-portal to enable CPOs to register their charging details securely into the National Online Database. Therefore in terms of the aforesaid Guidelines, all entities operating Public EV Charging Stations, battery swapping or battery charging stations, established with or without Government support (financial/otherwise), anywhere in Haryana are required to submit/update the data online through the respective SNA for updation on the National web portal developed by BEE. All Public Charge Point Operators (private/public entities) have therefore, been advised vide an advisory published on 21.12.2022 in various newspaper to comply with aforesaid guidelines and register & provide the required detailed information as per the format available at www.evyatra.beeindia.gov.in/bee-ev-web/register-charging-point-operator by logging into the web-portal available at www.evyatra.beeindia.gov.in on weekly basis.

All the ADC-cum-CPOs and MDs of both DISCOMs have been requested that wide publicity be given among the charge point operators through putting flux board at prominent locations for submission of information into national online database on public electric vehicle charging.