Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission (TNERC) has proposed certain Draft Amendment to various regulations of TNERC Tariff Regulations 2005 and the comments on the same are invited By 25th November 2013.
The major changes/amendments proposed by TNERC are as below:
- The ambit of the regulations have been extended to the co-generation, captive power plants and generation of electricity from renewable sources of energy including mini hydro projects ( covered under Non-conventional sources of Energy ) only to the extent to be specified by the Commission in the Tariff order or other orders issued from time to time.
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Provision of directing certain categories of consumers to maintain power factor at a prescribed level and levy disincentive for maintaining below the prescribed level has been introduced.
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Formula for calculating the cost of the infirm power supplied by the generators has been specified. The cost shall be paid by the distribution licensees. The allotment of infirm power shall be made among the distribution licensees in the state in the ratio of approved total sales of each distribution licensees in the state.
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Revised depreciation schedule has been specified.
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For the transmission tariff, the component of transmission tariff has been directed to reflect cost of capital investment, maintenance and operation of a transmission system to transfer bulk power to and from different locations. The revenue from this component of transmission tariff will meet the annual revenue requirement of transmission entity in respect of owning the transmission asset.
The proposed draft arrangements can be downloaded from this link.
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