thermal power development - Infraline

Central electricity authority Annual Report 2009-10
• The Plan scheme for interest subsidy may be
extended to loans from the banking sector
and other financial institution rather than
restricting the subsidy only to loans taken
from PFC & REC.
• The interest subsidy scheme be initially
made applicable only for distribution work.
• Only non-Restructured Accelerated Power
Development and Reforms Programme
(R-APDRP) projects and schemes be made
eligible under NEF.
PFC shall be the Nodal Agency to process
the claim for subsidy received from various
financial institutions including commercial banks
and would also prepare terms and conditions for
release of interest on subsidy amount.
9.11 Monitoring of National Electricity
Policy-2005
As per the provisions of Section 3 of the
Electricity Act, 2003, the Central Government
is required to prepare the National Electricity
Policy and Tariff Policy in consultation with the
State Governments and the Central Electricity
Authority. The Central Government may also,
from time to time, in consultation with the
State Governments and the Authority review
or revise the National Electricity Policy and
Tariff Policy so prepared. CEA decided to
monitor the State-wise progress on actionable
points contained in the National Electricity
Policy.
CEA identified actionable points in
the NEP and sent a questionnaire to all State
Governments. Responses were received from 23
States. A meeting was also called to confirm and
update the status of States of Northern Region
on 8 th September, 2009. These were tabulated
and uploaded on CEA website. Brief findings are
listed below:-
i. Grid Code: As per the National Electricity
Policy, the SERCs were required to notify
ii.
iii
the Grid Code under the Electricity Act,
2003 not later than September 2005. Out of
the 22 respondent States with SERCs, only
Madhya Pradesh had notified the Grid Code
within the required time period.
Independent functioning of SLDCs: NEP
has called attention to the fact that the spirit
of the provisions of the Electricity Act is
to ensure independent system operation
through the Load Despatch Centres.
However, no timeline for independent
operation of SLDCs has been laid down in
NEP. It is seen that SLDCs are still being
operated by the State Transmission Utility
in each of the respondent States. While
some States have established SLDCs that
are separate from the point of view of
accounting and budgeting, operationally
they continue to function under the State
Transmission Utility.
Initiation of Energy Audit and Declaration
of Results: A time-bound programme had to
be drawn up by the SERCs for segregation
of technical and commercial losses through
energy audits. Energy accounting had to be
conducted in each defined unit as determined
by SERCs and its results had to be declared
not later than March 2007. The responses
received so far show that most of the
discoms have only initiated action on energy
audits. On the whole, however, results of
Energy Audit have yet to be declared. Five
States have reported that they have not yet
initiated work related to energy audits. Some
States have also reported that while they are
taking work on energy audits, they are not
yet in a position to undertake segregation of
technical and commercial losses.
iv. Open Access Charges: Charges related
to open access on transmission and cross
subsidy surcharge for users of the distribution
system have been fixed by the SERCs in
104
“Electricity is life: Conserve it.”