THE

JHARKHAND GAZETTE

EXTRAORDINARY

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

18 Aashwin, 1941(S)

Ranchi, Thursday, 10^th October, 2019

Jharkhand State Electricity Regulatory Commission, Ranchi

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Notification

10^th October, 2019

JSERC Terms and Conditions for Determination of Transmission Tariff

Regulations (1^st 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 1^st 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 (1^st

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.

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B. 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;

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Av_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.

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