UERC issued APPC Order for the FY14 at Rs. 2.72 per unit...

 

The Uttarakhand Electricity Regulatory Commission (UERC) has issued the Average Power Purchase Cost (APPC) for the Financial Year 2014 at Rs. 2.72 per unit.

The definition adopted by UERC for the APPC is as follows:

“weighted average pooled price at which the distribution licensee has purchased the electricity including the cost of self generation, if any, in the previous year from all the energy suppliers long-term and short-term, but excluding those based on renewable energy sources, as the case may be.”

The power purchase data of FY13 has been considered while arriving at APPC for FY14.

Based on power purchase expenses of FY13 furnished by UPCL to UERC, an APPC rate of Rs.2.72 per unit has been finalized. 

The soft copy of the APPC Order by APPC can be download from this link.

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UERC invited consultancy proposals for MYT petitions of state utilities…

The Uttarakhand Electricity Regulatory Commission (UERC) has invited proposals for appointment of consultants to assist in examining and analysing the business plan and multi year tariff (MYT) petitions received state utilities for the first year of the control period FY 2013-14 to FY 2015-16..

 

This include distribution licensee Uttarakhand Power Corporation Limited (UPCL), transmission licensee Power Transmission Corporation of Uttarakhand Limited (PTCUL) and generating company Uttarakhand Jal Vidyut Nigam Limited (UJVNL).

 

The consultants should have requisite experience in technical and commercial aspects of the power sector.

 

Some of the eligibility criteria are:

1. The bidder must have a sound understanding of:
         
   • Technical aspects of power sector,
   • The economics of power sector-generation, transmission and distribution,
   • Linkages of the assignment with financial analysis & accounting and tariff-determination of public utilities and analysis of regulatory policies,
   • Legal framework governing the power sector.
     
2. Must have completed at least two assignments for providing assistance to Electricity Regulatory Commissions in framing and analysing Multi Year Tariff Regulations and in during the last five years.  
   
3. Must be in the position to commit full time manpower deployment exclusively for the assignment of the Commission, as and when required.
    
4. Can either be a consulting firm or a consortium of consulting firms (i.e. two or more firms can join together and submit the proposals) or a company.  
    
5. Must not be working on any assignment with the Petitioner(s) that could be in conflict with their obligations under the current assignment or that may place them in a position of not being able to carry out the assignments objectively and impartially.  
   
6. The majority of the key professional staff proposed must be regular employees of the firm(s)/company. No alternative to key professional staff may be proposed.

 

 

Interested persons are required to submit their technical and financial proposals latest by May 25, 2012.

 

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More Literature on this topic:

• http://www.uerc.gov.in/Public%20Notices%20&%20events/Public%20Notices/consultant_12_13/consultant%20myt/merged_pu_notice_docs.pdf

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