THE
JHARKHAND GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
18Aashwin, 1941(S)
No. 795
Ranchi, Thursday, 10th
October, 2019
Jharkhand State Electricity Regulatory Commission, Ranchi
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Notification
10th
October, 2019
JSERC Terms and Conditions for Determination of Transmission Tariff
Regulations (1st Amendment), 2019
Notification No. 70-- In exercise of the powers conferred by Section181 of the Electricity Act 2003 and all power enabling it in that behalf, the Jharkhand State Electricity Regulatory Commission hereby makes the 1st amendment in Jharkhand State Electricity Regulatory Commission (Terms and Conditions for Determination of Transmission Tariff Regulations) Regulations, 2015 (hereinafter called the 'Principal Regulations').
A. Short title and commencement:
i. With the notification of the JSERC (Framework for sharing of Transmission charges) Regulations 2019, the specific section on Allocation of Annual Transmission Charge (8.9 to 8.15) in the existing JSERC (Terms and Conditions for Determination of Transmission Tariff) Regulations, 2015 (hereafter called as the 'Principal Regulations')shall stand deleted.
ii. This amendmentin the "Jharkhand State Electricity Regulatory Commission (Terms and Conditions for Determination of Transmission Tariff) Regulations, 2015 may be called as the "Jharkhand State Electricity Regulatory Commission Terms and Conditions for Determination of Transmission Tariff (1st Amendment) Regulations, 2019.
iii. It shall extend to the whole State of Jharkhand.
iv. This shall come into force with effect from the date of publication in Jharkhand Gazette.
2 Jharkhand Gazette (Extraordinary), Thursday, 10th October, 2019B. The following clauses of the Principal Regulations shall stand deleted:
"Allocation of Annual Transmission Charge
8.9 The Annual Transmission Charge (ATC) shall be divided between Beneficiaries of the
Transmission System on monthly basis based on the Allotted Transmission Capacity or
contracted capacity, as the case may be.
8.10 If a Transmission System has been created for a particular Long-Term Transmission Customer
including dedicated transmission line(s) for a generating station, transmission charges
for such Transmission System shall be payable by that Long-Term Transmission Customer.
8.11 For Intra-State Transmission System, the monthly transmission charges shall be pooled for
sharing by Long-Term Transmission Customers in accordance with the following formula:
Transmission Charges for intra-state system payable for a month by a Long-term Transmission
Customer of that Transmission System
Where,
TCi = Annual Transmission Charges for the ith Project in the State computed in accordance
with these Regulations;
n = Number of Projects in the State;
CL = Allotted Transmission Capacity to the Long-Term Transmission Customer;
SCL = Sum of the Allotted Transmission Capacities to all the Long-Term Transmission
Customers of the State Transmission System.
8.12 In the case of Medium-term users of the Intra-State Transmission System, charges payable shall
be in proportion to the MW for which medium-term usage has been approved by the State
Transmission Utility for that month.
8.13 In the case of Short Term Open Access Customers, charges payable shall
be calculated in accordance to following methodology:
ST_RATE = 0.25 x [ATC/ Av_CAP]/ 365;
Where,
ST_RATE is the rate for short-term open access customer in Rs per MW
per day;
ATC is Annual Transmission Charge;
3 Jharkhand Gazette (Extraordinary), Thursday, 10th October, 2019Av_CAP means the average capacity in MW served by the transmission
system of the Transmission Licensee in the last Financial Year and shall
be the sum of the generating capacities connected to the transmission
system and contracted capacities of other transactions handled by the
system of the Transmission Licensee;
8.14 25% of the charges collected from the Short Term Open Access customer shall be retained by
the Transmission Licensee and the balance 75% shall be adjusted towards reduction in the
transmission service charges payable by the Beneficiaries other than Short Term Transmission
Customers.
8.15 Transmission charges corresponding to any plant capacity for which a Beneficiary has not
been identified and contracted shall be paid by the concerned generating company."
By Order of the Commission,
Rajendra Prasad Nayak,
Secretary
Jharkhand State Electricity Regulatory Commission.
Printed & Published by the Superintendent of Jharkhand Government Press, Doranda, Ranchi. Jharkhand Gazette (Extraordinary) 795-- 50.