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

State Reports (Vol.-III)
Study on `Impact of Restructuring of SEBs’
company will be encouraged to operate independently and can be held fully
accountable for its performance. The initiative to maintain some distance from
the different companies has to originate from GUVNL.
Introduction of Intra-State ABT
Introduction of intra-State ABT will surely lead to discipline in operation of all
utilities. Till the time utilities get used to operate in strict regime of ABT, there will be
instances of Unscheduled Interchanges (UI) and payment of penalties thereof. In order
that the sole objective of avoiding UI and associated payment of penalties does not
override and obscure the vision of the utilities of providing continuous supply as an
important parameter of their operations, some guidelines will need to be discussed and
finalised for operation in the interim period.
Another aspect that needs to be addressed is the simplification of operation of ABT.
Presently, a large number of interchange points have been identified for fixing meters.
This may partly be due to 66 kV lines running across more than one DISCOM’s area.
In the next few years, efforts should be made so that 66 kV lines do not form any
interconnection between different DISCOMs and such interconnections are only at
higher voltage levels. 66 kV network in a DISCOM’s area should remain exclusively
for serving loads only in that company’s area. Reduction of number of interconnection
points will help in simplifying the ABT operation.
CAPITAL INFUSION BY GOVERNMENT OF GUJARAT/PROFITABLE
STATE PSUs
In the FRP, every year an amount of about Rs 600 crore is proposed to be provided by
Government of Gujarat/profitable PSUs of the State, towards capital infusion in
restructured companies. This amount is in addition to Rs 250 crore per year of grant
from the State Government. Since Government of Gujarat has other commitments like
providing RE subsidy, etc.; most of this additional capital infusion may ultimately
have to come from the identified State PSUs.
The terms of such capital infusion or the identification of the PSUs is not yet known.
During discussions, it was mentioned that various options such as direct equity
support, equity support for specific projects, etc., are being considered. With no core
competence in the energy sector available with them, PSUs may not be comfortable to
be equity participants of such a large magnitude. GUVNL could check if some form
of revenue sharing arrangement could be favoured by these PSUs.
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