CERC proposes shorter 50-minute timeline for real-time power market
The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has issued a discussion paper proposing to reduce the scheduling timeline in India’s real-time electricity market (RTM) from 75 minutes to 50 minutes. The change is intended to improve demand-supply matching, reduce forecasting errors, and limit renewable energy curtailment. The paper, published in April 2026 and notified through a…