UP Electricity Regulatory Commission 

Notification

No. 1/2002                                                                                          Date: 3 January 2002               

Amendment No.1 to the “Practice Directions for Captive Power Generations”, adopted by the Commission in July, 2000. 

The Practice Directions for Captive Power Generations (hereinafter referred as Directions) were adopted by the Commission in July, 2000. In order to further simplify the procedure, following amendments to the Directions are being made in exercise of the powers of the Commission as given in clause 1.6 of the Directions, after considering the views of the UP Power Corporation Ltd and Noida Power Company Limited. Kanpur Electricity Supply Company did not give any comments on the proposed amendments. These amendments will be applicable in the State of Uttar Pradesh only.

Amendments

I           The Clause 3.1 to 3.5 of the Directions shall be replaced by the following:

3.1              Applications seeking consent for setting up new Captive units or for enhancement of existing capacity should be filed in triplicate to UPERC, in the prescribed form, along with an affidavit, as prescribed in the Business Regulation, 2000 of the Commission. The form may be obtained free of cost from the office of UPERC or may be down loaded from its website at www.uperc.org.

3.2              A processing fee of Rs 2500 for capacity up to 1 (one) MW and Rs 5000 for capacity in excess of 1 (one) MW is also to be deposited by way of draft or pay order.

3.3              The CPP owners, permitted to sell electricity, shall pay an annual fee as prescribed in Regulation 5 and 6 of the UPERC (Fees and Fines) Regulation, 2000, amended from time to time. At present the fee is payable at the rate of Rs.10, 000 per 10 MW or part thereof.

3.4              Automatic Consent:

Following cases will be covered under “Automatic Consent” route, provided capacity requested is not more than 25 MW and proposal does not involve any sale of energy:

(a)     Standby units for a capacity up to 1.25 times the contracted load with Licensee.

(b)    Bagasse based captive sets based on co-generation in sugar mills and

(c)     HSD based captive sets in Sugar mills for starting of co-generation units and for meeting the off-season load up to ¼ the capacity of the co-generation unit.

In these cases, consent will be granted within seven working days of the receipt of application complete in all respects.

3.5              Cases other than those covered under Automatic Consent:

3.5.1        Two copies of the application, along with processing fee if any prescribed by the licensee, would be filed by the applicant with the licensee at the same time as the application is filed with UPERC. The Licensee should send his comments, if any, to UPERC within 45 days of the receipt of the application, failing which the UPERC will proceed to decide the matter presuming that the licensee has no objection to the grant of consent. UPERC may, at its discretion, grant additional time to the Licensee upon his request.

3.5.2        UPERC shall generally decide the application within 30 days of receipt of the views of the licensee and receipt of all information and documents from the applicant. The procedure to be followed by UPERC for disposal of these applications will be as laid down in its Business Regulations 2000 for disposal of petitions.

II         The clause 4.4 of the Directions would be replaced by the following:

4.4              The maximum capacity permitted for standby CPP will be equal to 1.25 times the contracted load with the licensee.

By the order of the Commission

(Rajeev Kapoor)

                                                                                                            Secretary

Lucknow

Date: 3rd January 2002

 

 

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