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CTRICITY REGULATORY COMMISSION

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NOTIFICATION

The 19th September 2012

Reg. 27/2012-07–938—In exercise

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and all other powers enabling the Com

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ions, 2005 notified vide no. BERC-R

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and commencement.—(1) These regul

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tions shall come into force on the da

the official Gazette.

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point of drawal for a fixed for varying quantum of power (MW) for any

time period during a month

(n) "Collective transaction" means a set of transactions discovered in

power exchange through anonymous, simultaneous competitive bidding

by buyers and sellers".

3. Amendment of Regulation 4.—(i) In clause 4 (1) of the principal

regulations the words “electricity traders” shall be inserted after the word

“licensees” and before the words “the generating companies”

(ii) In Regulation 4 of the principal regulations clause (4) shall be inserted

as under:-

“(4)A person having been declared insolvent or bankrupt or having

outstanding dues against him for two months or more of billing of any

transmission or distribution licensee shall not be eligible for open

access”.

4. Amendment of Regulation 12.—In regulation 12 of the principal

regulations new clause (5) shall be inserted as under-

"(5)The capacity available for the intra-state open access shall be

computed for each transmission segment and for every sub-station by

the STU following the methodology given below:

(a) Available open access capacity of a transmission system segment =

(DC-SD-AC) + NC where, DC= Designed capacity of the

transmission segment in MW, SD= Sustained demand in MW

recorded in the segment, AC= already allocated capacity, but not

availed and NC= capacity in MW expected to be added.

(b) Available open access capacity of sub-station=TC-SP-AC where,

TC= Transformer Capacity of the sub-station in MVA, SP= sub-

station peak in MVA and AC= Already allotted capacity in MVA, but

not availed.

The STU shall update these values on monthly basis on the first

calendar day of the month in their website.

The appropriate distribution licensee shall determine the available

capacity for the portion of the distribution system over which open

access in demanded”.

5. Amendment of Regulation 16.—In clause 6 of Regulation 16 of the

principal regulations, the following provisos shall be inserted, namely:

“provided that if difference between the readings of main and check

meters exceeds twice the percentage error applicable to relevant class,

both meters shall be tested and the one found defective shall be

immediately replaced and reading of other will be considered.

Provided also that the check meter readings shall be considered

when Main Meters are found to be defective or stopped."

6. Amendment of Regulation 18.—In Regulation 18 of the principal

regulations, for sub-clause (d) of clause 2, the following shall be

substituted, namely :-

“(d) The surcharge shall be reduced in the manner as determined

by the Commission in respect to reduction of cross subsidies in terms

and conditions of tariff of transmission/distribution licensees”

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7. Insertion of new regulations 20A and 20B.—After Regulation 20 of

the principal regulations, the following regulations shall be inserted,

namely:-

20 A. Standby Power

In case of outage of a power plant supplying power to an open

access customer, the licensee will, on request, provide standby supply to

meet the requirement of load catered through open access. Such standby

supply will be provided by the licensee at day ahead request from the

open access customer. The open access customer will, for that supply, be

liable to pay charges under tariff for temporary connection to that

category of consumer.

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scheduled

power

due

to

failure

of

transmission/distribution system

If an open access customer is unable to draw the scheduled

energy due to failure of transmission/distribution system of the licensee,

the power injected will be treated as Banked Power and the open access

consumer will be allowed to draw the same within a period of three

months with an advance notice of the 24 hours to the licensee. The

power will in no case be drawn during evening peak load hours, unless

banked during peak load hours.

In case the open access customer is unable to draw the banked power,

then he will be paid by the licensee as per Regulation 20”.

By order of the commission,

GANESH PRASAD,

Secretary.

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