The Ministry of Power on 7th November 2022, has revised the consolidated Guidelines & Standards dated for Charging Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles issued by the Ministry on 14.01.2022.
It has been decided to make the following additions in these guidelines:
(a) Under the heading 3. Public Charging Infrastructure (PCI) Requirements”, para 3.1 (xi) has been added as under:
xi. The public charging stations shall have the feature of prepaid collection of service charges with the time of the day rates and discount for solar hours.
Further under para 8 which deals with Service charges at PCS, the following has been notified.
A Committee under Central Electricity Authority (CEA) will periodically recommend to the State Government the ceiling limit of service charges to be levied and This Committee shall also recommend “time of the day rate ” for service charges as well as the discount to be given for charging during solar hours.
