Tamil Nadu had the highest number of open access consumers buying electricity from the power exchanges.
The concept of open access allows large users of power to buy power directly from private generators rather than depending on the State utility.
There were 5,244 open Access consumers at Indian Energy Exchange Ltd (IEX) and these consumers were mostly located in Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab.
Tamil Nadu had a total of 1,247 open access consumers on IEX.