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Commission

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2. Scope.—These

Transmission licensees.

3. Definitions.—(1

requires:-

(a) “Act” mean

from time to

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NOTIFICATION

The 10th October, 2019

ulatory Commission (Standards of Perform

ansmission Licensees) Regulations, 2019

8/2019-04—In exercise of powers confe

h section 57 (1), 57 (2) and 86 (1) (i) of th

d all other powers enabling it in this behal

ommission hereby makes the Bihar State

Standards of Performance of Intra-State Tr

019:-

CHAPTER 1

PRELIMINARY

tent and Commencement: -

ations may be called the Bihar Electricity

(Standards

Performance

n Licensees) Regulations, 2019.

ations extend to the whole of the state of Bi

ations shall come into force from the d

in the Official Gazette.

regulations shall be applicable to all the

1) In these Regulations, unless the contex

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(b) “Affected person” means a user of the intra-State transmission

system who is affected due to non-adherence to the Standards of

Performance specified in these regulations by the intra-State

transmission licensee.

means

the

Bihar

Electricity

Regulatory

Commission referred to in sub- section (1) of section 82 of the Act.

(d) “Intra-State Transmission System (InSTS)” shall have the same

meaning as defined in Section 2 (37) of the Act.

(e)

“Intra-State

Transmission

Licensee”

means

licensee

including a deemed intra- State transmission licensee authorized

to establish, operate and maintain transmission lines of the intra-

State Transmission System.

(f)

“User” means a user of any segment/ element of the intra-State

Transmission System and shall include all generators, State

Transmission Utilities, Discoms or load serving entities directly

connected to the intra-State Transmission System including Bulk

Consumers and any other entity/ person.

(g)

“Year” means a financial year.

(2) Words and expressions used in these regulations and not defined

herein but defined in the Act or any of the regulations made by the

Commission, shall have the meanings as assigned to them respectively in the

Act, and regulations made by the Commission from time to time.

CHAPTER 2

OBJECTIVE, NORMS AND METHODOLOGY

4. Objective.—The objectives of these regulations are to ensure

compliance of the Standards of Performance by the intra-State transmission

licensees and to provide for an efficient, reliable, coordinated and economical

system of electricity transmission, non-adherence of which would entitle the

affected parties to compensation.

5. Standards of Performance.—

(1) All intra-State transmission licensees shall comply with the

Standards of Performance specified in these regulations:

(a)

Transmission System Availability

(i)

The

transmission

system

availability

shall

calculated element-wise on monthly basis, in the

manner as provided in the Bihar Electricity Regulatory

Commission (Multi Year Transmission Tariff and SLDC

Charges) Regulations, 2018, as amended from time to

time and any subsequent enactment thereof.

(ii) The deemed availability of the transmission elements

under outage shall be as Specified in the Bihar

Electricity

Regulatory

Commission

(Multi

Year

Transmission Tariff and SLDC Charges) Regulations,

2018, as amended from time to time and any

subsequent enactment thereof.

(iii) The

element-wise

monthly

availability

the

transmission system shall not be below the availability

as given under:

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No.

Transmission Elements

Availability

(% of time)

(i)

AC Transmission line

(ii)

ICTs

(iii)

Reactors

(iv)

Static VAR Compensator

(v)

Series Compensator

(vi)

HVDC (Back-to-back Stations and bi-pole links)

Notes:—(1) Tower collapse shall not be counted for the purpose

of calculation of monthly availability of AC transmission

line and HVDC bipole line.

(2) Failure of Inter-Connecting Transformer (ICT) and Reactor

shall not be counted for the purpose of calculation of

availability of Inter-Connecting Transformer and Reactor.

(iv) The element-wise monthly availability shall be certified

by the SLDC or Member Secretary of the State Power

Committee.

(b)

Restoration time.—Restoration time for different types of

failures

transmission

line

and

Inter-Connecting

Transformer (ICT) and reactors shall not exceed the

following time limit:

Sl.

No.

Types of failures

Restoration Time

(Days)

Insulator failure

Plain Terrain

Hilly Terrain

Tower after collapse by Emergency

Restoration System (ERS)

Tower after collapse

Plain Terrain

River Bed

Hilly Terrain

Snapping of phase conductor

Plain Terrain

Hilly Terrain

Failure of earth wire

Plain Terrain

Hilly Terrain

Failure of Inter Connecting Transformers (ICTs)

Restoration of the failed ICT

120

Failure of Reactors

Restoration of the failed reactor

120

6. Any failure by the intra-State transmission licensee to maintain the

standards of performance specified in these regulations shall render the said

licensee liable to payment of compensation to an affected person claiming such

compensation under the provisions of the Act.

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Provided that the payment of compensation by the Intra-State

transmission licensee shall be without prejudice to any penalty, which may be

imposed or any prosecution which may be initiated by the Commission as

provided in the Act.

7. Methodology for compensation.—An affected person who has

suffered a loss on account of non-adherence to the Standard of Performance by

any intra-State transmission licensee may make an appropriate application to

the Commission for award of compensation:

In case of non compliance of the order/ direction passed by the

commission, proceeding u/s 142 of Electricity Act, 2003 will be initiated.

Provided that the Commission shall determine the compensation after

giving reasonable opportunity to the transmission licensees of being heard:

Provided further that the compensation to be paid by the intra-State

transmission licensee to the affected party shall be limited to the transmission

charges as determine by the commission in the Tariff order from time to time.

Provided further that the intra-State transmission licensee shall not be

entitled to recover the amount of compensation awarded through tariff from the

users of the transmission of electricity:

Provided also that no claim for compensation shall be entertained if the

application for the claim is filed after expiry of a period of ninety days from the

end of the month when the availability of the transmission system falls short of

the availability specified in Clause 5 (a) and ninety days from the date of

restoration of transmission element, as the case may be, for the standards

prescribed in Clause (b) of Regulation 5 of these regulations.

CHAPTER 3

INFORMATION TO BE FURNISHED BY THE INTRA-STATE

TRANSMISSIONLICENSEES

8. Information to be furnished by the intra-State Transmission

Licensees.—

(1) All intra- State transmission licensees, in accordance with section

59 of the Act, shall furnish to the Commission, (a) the level of

performance achieved, and (b) the number of cases in which

compensation was paid, and (c) the aggregate amount of the

compensation, in the formats in the Schedule of these

regulations.

(2) Such information in the requisite formats shall be submitted to

the Commission twice during the financial year, on six monthly

basis by 31st October and 30th April for the periods April to

September and October to March respectively.

(3) All intra-State transmission licensees shall display on their web-

sites the actual performance against the specified Standards of

Performance on a monthly basis and the aggregate amount of

compensation paid, if any, in the formats enclosed in the

Schedule.

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CHAPTER 4

MISCELLANEOUS

9. Power to Relax.— The Commission may, if it considers necessary or

expedient to do so and for the reasons to be recorded in writing, relax

adherence to any specific Standard of Performance during Force Majeure

conditions such as war, mutiny, civil commotion, riot, flood, cyclone, Storm,

lightning, earthquake, grid failure, and strike/curfew, lockout, fire affecting the

intra-State Transmission Licensee's installations and operation activities, or

under such other specific circumstances:

Provided that the Intra-State Transmission Licensee shall not be

discharged from its liability on account of its failure to maintain the Standards

of Performance under these regulations if such failure can be attributed to the

negligence or deficiency or lack of preventive maintenance of the intra-state

transmission system or failure to take reasonable precaution which has

resulted in loss to the affected person.

10. Power to remove difficulties.— If any difficulty arises in giving

effect to any of the provisions of these Regulations, the Commission may, by

general or specific order, make such provisions not inconsistent with the

provisions of the Act, as may appear to be necessary for removing the difficulty.

11. Power to Amend.—The commission may, at any time after

consultation with the licensees and other persons likely to be affected add, vary,

alter, modify or amend any provisions of these regulations.

By order,

Rameshwar Pd. Das,

Secretary.

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SCHEDULE

AC Transmission Line/ ICT/ Static VAr Compensator/ Series

Compensator/ HVDC (Back-to-Back Stations and Bi-Pole Links)/ Line

Rectors/ Bus Reactors Outage Details for the month of ________

Element

Name

Outage

Restoration

Duration of Outage

Attributable to

Reason of

Outage

Availability

Date

Time

Date

Time

Intra-State

Transmission

Licensee

Others

System

constraint/

Natural

calamity/

Militancy

Deemed

Available

Reason

Outage

Hrs:Min

II. Elements where restoration time has exceeded the standards

specified in Regulation 5 (b).

Element Name

Restoration time as specified

in Regulation 5 (b)

(in days)

Actual restoration time

(in days)

III. Details of compensation paid by the intra-State transmission

licensee

Element

Name

Violation of Regulation

5 (a)

Violation of Regulation 5

(b)

Compensation

paid (in Rs.)

Availability

prescribed

Actual %

Availability

Restoration

time

prescribed

(in days)

Actual

restoration

time

(in days)

Total

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IV. Data to be furnished by the intra-State Transmission Licensees

to SLDC

(1)

The Dependability Index defined as D=Nc/ (Nc+Nf)

Where Nc is the number of correct operations during the given

time interval and Nf is the number of failures to operate at

internal power system faults

(2)

The Security Index defined as S= Nc/(Nc+Nu)

where Nu is the number of unwanted operations.

(3)

The Reliability Index defined R= Nc/(Nc+Ni)

where Ni is the number of incorrect operations and is the sum of Nf

and Nu.

(4)

From above 1/S+1/D= 1/R+1

(5)

The number of trippings of each transmission element. Five or

more trippings of a transmission element in a month to be put on the

website by the intra-State Transmission Licensees and reported to the

Commission by SLDC

Note.—

The data for these indices are presently prescribed for collection

by the System Operator.

These indices shall be computed by the SLDC and furnished to

the Commission on monthly basis.

Data to be compiled by the intra-State Transmission

Licensees

The restoration times for different types of failures of a

transmission line and failure of Inter-Connecting Transformer

(ICT) and reactor in the following format:

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Sl.

No.

Types of failures

Restoration Time

(Days)

Elements of the Transmission line for Single Circuit (S/C), Double

Circuit (D/C) and Multi-Circuit (M/C) towers for each KV class separately

Insulator failure

Terrain type

Plain

River bed

Hilly

(i) Insulator failure in single phase

(ii) Insulator failure in two phases

(iii) Insulator failure in three phases

Tower after collapse by Emergency

Restoration System (ERS) for S/C, D/C and

M/C separately

Tower after collapse without Emergency

Restoration System (ERS) for S/C, D/C and

M/C separately

Tower damage (not collapse)

One arm damage

Two arms damage

Snapping of phase conductor

Conductor snapping in single phase

Conductor snapping in two phases

Conductor snapping in three phases

Failure of earth wire

Insulator failure with conductor snapping

Any other combination of failures

Elements of the sub-station for each kV class separately

Failure of Inter Connecting Transformers (ICTs)

Restoration of the failed ICT

Other major failures in ICTs

Single

phase

unit

Three phase

unit

(i) Replacement of faulty bushings

(ii) Replacement of failed/ blasted bushings

(iii) Replacement of faulty tap changers

Failure of Reactors

Restoration of the failed reactor

By order,

Rameshwar Pd. Das,

Secretary.

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