Report of Indian Institute of Public Administration ... - Ministry of Power

Short Term/ Unscheduled Interchange Purchases
State Reports (Vol.-III)
Study on `Impact of Restructuring of SEBs’
While there have been efforts to increase the in-house capacity of the generating
infrastructure, however the quantum of power purchased from short-term has been
increasing. As can be seen from the above graph, the contribution in cost of shortterm
purchase is increasing from the previous level of 7 per cent in 1999-00 to 9 per
cent in 2004-05.
The actual power purchase cost provided for this report suggest that the cost of power
from unscheduled interchange (UI) has been increasing both in terms of quantum as
also the cost per unit.
Year
Average cost of
UI purchases
(Rs/kWh)
Contribution of UI purchases in
total power purchase cost (%)
2003-04 2.08 10
2004-05 3.65 9
2005-06 5.42 -NA-
The latest trend analysis of 2005-06 of amount payable by HVPNL into the ‘UI Pool
Account’ of Northern Regional Power Committee (NRPC), as shown below, depicts
that there are enough economic signals for increasing the generating capacity within
the State both from the point of view of cost as also improving the quality and
reliability of the power supply to the consumers.
Fig: Amount Payable by HVPNL to UI Pool Account of NREB (2005-06)
2.26
(Rs Lakh)
(Source: NRLDC Pool Accounts)