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Orissa Electricity Regulatory Commission Open Access Regulations (Consolidated)

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HIGHLIGHTS

 

Eligibility to seek Open Access

The licensees and the generating companies, including persons with connected capacity over 1 MW.

Electricity tariff

FY 2017-18

Rs./Unit

  • Domestic HT bulk consumers: Energy charge – Rs. 4.40 per unit.

 

Slab rate for energy charge for Industrial HT/EHT consumers

Load Factor

HT

EHT

=< 60%

5.35

5.30

>60%

4.25

4.20

Connectivity charges and procedure

  • Any person, irrespective of capacity installed, shall have open access to any licensee’s transmission and/or distribution system.
  • Licensee shall provide appropriate interconnection facilities and meters.
  • Licensee shall be responsible for development of evacuation infrastructure beyond interconnection point, while developer shall be responsible up to interconnection point.

Nodal Agency

  • LTOA: State Transmission Utility (STU) if the transmission system is used. Else, the respective distribution licensee in whose area the point of drawal is located.
  • STOA: State Load Dispatch Centre (SLDC).

Procedure and Charges for Long Term Open Access

  • Applicability: The persons availing or intending to avail access to the intra-state transmission or distribution system for a period of twenty-five years or more.
  • Applicant shall apply to nodal agency,
  • Nodal Agency: STU – If the transmission system is used; otherwise it is the respective distribution licensee in whose area the point of drawal is located.
  • Non-refundable application fee: Rs.1 lakh per MW for transmission access and Rs.50,000 per 500 kW for distribution access.
  • Time frame for processing the application: will be 30 days, and 90 days if system strengthening is required (from the date of request for strengthening studies).
  • The applicant shall reimburse the actual expenditure incurred by the nodal agency for system strengthening studies.
  • Exit options: Not without prior approval of the Commission and subject to payment of compensation, as may be determined by the Commission.

Procedure and Charges for Medium Term Open Access

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Procedure and Charges for Short Term Open Access

Applicability: Customer, other than long term, i.e. the person availing or intending to avail access to intra-state transmission or distribution system for a period of less than 25 years.

Applicant shall apply to nodal agency,

Nodal Agency: State Load Dispatch Centre (SLDC).

Non-refundable application fee: Rs.5,000 (Five thousand).

Time Frame to process application:

Tenure of Contract

Maximum Processing Time (from end of the calendar month of submission)

Up to one day

12 hours

Up to one week

3 days

Up to one month

7 days

Up to one year

30 days

  • Exit and Capacity Reduction: By surrendering capacity to SLDC and bearing full transmission/distribution charges along with scheduling and other charges for original reserved capacity and period reserved.

 

 

OTHER PROVISIONS

 

Allotment priority

  • Long Term Open Access customers will have priority over Short Term Open Access customers.
  • Open access shall be allowed only after determining the capacity available in the intra-state transmission system and operational constraints.
  • In case of congestion: LTOA – Nodal agency shall carry system strengthening assessment to accommodate the applicant. (Licensee may require capital contribution from customer). STOA – Bids shall be invited to accommodate applicants.

Open Access charges (2017-18)

Name of Licensee

Wheeling charges (P/U), applied to HT consumer only

Transmission charges for STOA (HT and EHT consumers)

CESU

50.32

Rs.1,500/MW/day or Rs.62.5/ MWh.

NESCO

77.02

WESCO

50.30

SOUTHCO

65.53

  • 20% of wheeling charge is payable by consumer availing power from renewable energy, excluding cogeneration and biomass plants.

 

Cross Subsidy Surcharge:

  • No CSS for consumer availing renewable power.

 

Wheeling charges:

  • 20% of wheeling charges for renewable power (except cogeneration and biomass).

 

Additional Surcharge:

  • No additional surcharge over and above CSS for embedded licensee.

Scheduling and Metering

Scheduling:

  • As per the State Grid Code.
  • STOA : Application fess of Rs. 5000 and Scheduling charges of Rs. 2000 per day or part thereof

 

Metering:

  • Metering system capable of energy accounting for each time block of 15 minutes shall be provided at both supply and drawal points.

Energy losses

Transmission Losses:

  • Normative transmission loss - 3.50% for EHT.

 

Distribution Loss:

  • Normative wheeling loss – 8% for HT.

Imbalance and Reactive Energy charges

Imbalance Energy:

  • No banking facility for supply (third party sale) from renewable energy sources through open access.
  • For third party sale, energy generation from renewable energy sources in each 15-minute time block shall be set-off against the captive/open access user’s consumption in the same 15-minute time block.

Link

http://www.orierc.org/regulations.html

Reference

The OERC (Term and Condition for Open Access) Regulations, 2005 :

http://www.orierc.org/Orders/regulations/terms_conditions.pdf
 

OERC Tariff and Open Access Charges for 17-18 :

http://www.orierc.org/FY-2015-16/CESU%20%20Open%20Access%20%20Order%202017-18.pdf
 

OERC (Procurement of Energy from Renewable Sources and its Compliances) Regulations, 2015 : http://www.orierc.org/Gazette%201301-2015.pdf

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