All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) has opposed the proposed amendment in Electricity Act 2003 regarding provision of supply licensee who will supply electricity in a particular area.
V K Gupta A spokes person of Federation said that since AIPEF is major stake holder on the issue it has requested the Union Power Minister of State that a meeting on the subject may be granted to Federation to discuss the issue threadbare before it is finalized and presented to Parliament for approval.
He further said that as per proposal the supply licensee shall not require a license to undertake trading in electricity and can further appoint any number of franchisees to distribute electricity within his area of supply.
Padamjit Singh Chairman AIPEF in his letter has stated that supply licensees would sell power to high revenue identified consumers such as large supply consumers, industry, shopping malls etc. This will impact revenue of state Discoms and make them financially sick.
The system of a supplier arranging power from outside to be given to a large no. of scattered consumers embedded in the Discoms distribution system is not compatible with the prevailing scheduling system wherein every generator / supplier has to give the power supply to the Discoms as per day ahead schedule.
Moreover the energy accounting and losses not yet developed / streamlined by state Discoms as has been done in USA and Australia to handle the work of supply licensee using network of Discoms and Transco. In case supplier’s generator / source trips the unscheduled overdraws impact will come on state Discoms. How this unscheduled overdrawl will be loaded on to supplier.
Discoms are supposed to apply power cuts as per guidelines of regional load dispatch centers. In applying power cuts, the feeder being common, the consumers getting supplier licensee power will also get cut which could lead to disputes.
Consumer will have to deal with two agencies the network owner and the supplier. Ownership of metering equipment/meters could create problems -supplier may not agree to meters of Discoms and vice versa.
In case a LS consumer above 1 MW gets power from outside source as permissible now, through open access, he has to get the power as per a schedule. By contrast with a supplier giving power to large number of scattered consumers in the state, it would not be possible to give any kind of schedule on day ahead basis accurately.
No comments:
Post a Comment