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'if""mf ('fil ( Government of India Ministry of Power Northern Regional Power Committee - l-/5 No. NRPCI Comml/21 0/CSC(42)/20201 Wrrif /To, Members of Commercial Sub-Committee (As per List) qli'UIR"4'h q 1i'U1R"4'h 42 efT"tsifl 'fiT 'h14ttl I Dated: 03 rd June, 2020 Subject: 42 nd meeting of Commercial Sub-Committee - Minutes. , Sir, ;nR ewt<r f<lwr qli'UIG4'h 42 eft 20.05.2020 ifllitRi'1 6l141Fi1a <rt I 'fiT 'h14'i*' f<lwr ofit I 3lT'HI'd'1<:"1I15 I 42 nd Commercial Sub-Committee meeting of NRPC was held on 20 th May, 2020 via WebEx video conferencing. A copy of minutes of the meeting is available on NRPC website. The same may kindly be downloaded. Yours faithfully, • \ (31"1':. ff. mrr'1") (R.P. Pradhan) Superintending Engineer 18-,(. >$ filpn,f. """. m.tt- 110016 ,,"":011-26513265 il>m: 011-26865206 "l:-iM": sec [email protected] www.nrpc.gov.in 18-A. Shaheed Jeet Singh Marg, Katwaria Sarai, New Oelhi-11 0016 Phone; 011-26513265 Fax: 011-26865206 e- mail: [email protected]: www.nrpc.gov.in

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'if""mf ~ ('fil ( Government of India

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Dated: 03 rd June, 2020

Subject: 42nd meeting of Commercial Sub-Committee - Minutes.

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42nd Commercial Sub-Committee meeting of NRPC was held on 20th May, 2020 via WebEx video conferencing. A copy of minutes of the meeting is available on NRPC website. The same may kindly be downloaded.

~ Yours faithfully, •

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(R.P. Pradhan)

3nft&fUT~ Superintending Engineer

18-,(. >$ ~ filpn,f. ~ """. ~ m.tt- 110016 ,,"":011-26513265 il>m: 011-26865206 "l:-iM": sec [email protected] ~: www.nrpc.gov.in 18-A. Shaheed Jeet Singh Marg, Katwaria Sarai, New Oelhi-11 0016 Phone; 011-26513265 Fax: 011-26865206 e- mail: [email protected]: www.nrpc.gov.in

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List of Members of Commercial Sub-Committee

1. Director 1 Power Regulation, BBMB, Chandigarh, Fax: 0172-2652820 2. Director (GM & NPC), CEA, New Delhi, Fax: 26109750 3. Superintending Engineer (Elect. Op), UT of Chandigarh, Fax: 0172-2637880 4. General Manager (CommL), DTL, New Delhi, Fax: 23221059 5. Dy. General Manager (SO), SLDC-Delhi, New Delhi, Fax: 23221059 6. General Manager (Tech.), IPGCUPPCL, New Delhi, Fax: 011-23379234/23270590 7. Chief Engineer (SO & CommL), HVPNL, Panchkula, Fax: 0172-2560622 8. Superintending Engineer SLDC-Haryana, Panchkula, Fax : 0172-2566335 9. Chief Engineer (System Operation), HPSEB Ltd, Shimla, fax: 0177-2837543 10. Manager (Commercial), HPPTC Ltd., Himfed Bhawan, Shimla-171005, Fax, 0177-2832384 11. Chief Engineer (CommL), J&K (POD), Jammu, Fax: 0191-2476163 12. Chief Engineer (PP&R), PSPCL, Patiala, Fax-0175-2367872 13. Chief Engineer, RUVNL, Jaipur, Fax: 0141-2744571/2744347 14. SE(ISP-CommL), RVPNL, Jaipur, Fax: 0141-2740890 15. Chief Engineer (Comml), UPPCL, Lucknow, Fax: 0522-2287835 16. Chief Engineer (Comml), UPRVUNL, Lucknow, Fax: 0522-2287861 17. Chief General Manager, UPCL, Dehradun , Fax: 0135-2763839 18. General Manager (Finance), PTCUL, Dehradun, Fax: 0135-2763301 19. Dy. General Manager (Commercial), UJVN, Dehradun, Fax: 0135-2763507 20. AddL General Manager (Comml), NTPC, New Delhi , Fax: 24360328 21. Chief Engineer (CemmL), NHPC, Faridabad, Fax: 95129-2254042 22. General Manager (C&SO), SJVNL, Shanan, Shimla, Fax: 0177-2660211 23. General Manager (CommL), THDC, Rishikesh, Fax: 0135-2430764 24. AGM. (Commercial),NPCIL, Mumbai, Fax: 022-25992812, 25992839 25. AGM (Commercial), (NR-I), PGCIL, New Delhi, Fax: 26853488 26. General Manager (Mkt. Op.), NRLDC, New Delhi , Fax: 26852747 27. AGM (Comml.), APCPL, NOIDA, Fax No: 0120-2410414 28. Sh . Karunakar Jha, Jhajjar Power Limited, Jhajjar, Haryana Fax: 01251-270105 29. Sh. Ranjan Kumar, WTD, Lanco Anpara Power Ltd., Fax-124-4741024 30. Sh. Ambuj Shukla, Sr. Manager Commercial , RPSCL Fax No: 05842-300003 31. Sh. Praveen Bhansali, GM, JSW Energy Ltd, New Delhi Fax:011-48178740 32. Sh. Anshul Garg, AVP(BD), Adani Power Rajasthan Ltd., Ahmedabad, Fax No: 079-25557155 33. Sh. Amit Miltal, Talwandi Sabo Power Ltd. Dislt: Mansa, Punjab-151302(Fax: 01659-248083) 34. Sh. S.N.M Tripathi, Director, Lalitpur Power generation Company Ltd., Lucknow-226010(Fax:

0120-4045100/555, 2543939/40) 35. Sh. Hiranmay De, EVP (C&O), PTC India Ltd., New Delhi (Fax- 011-41659144,41659145) 36. Representative of Nabha Power Limited , (Fax: 01762277251 101724646802) 37. Representative of Prayagraj Power Generation Co. Ltd. 38. Representative of HP SLDC 39. Representative of DHBVNL (Haryana Discom member) 40. Representative of AWNL (Rajasthan Discom member) 41 . Representative of PWNL (UP Discom member) 42. Representative of BSES Rajdhani Pvt Ltd. (Delhi Pvt Discern member) 43. Representative of Bajaj Energy Pvt Ltd (Member Genco < 1000 MW) 44. Representative of Kreate Energy Pvt Ltd. (Member Trader)

18-'(, $ <fu'Rt.! 'IT'f, ~mFf, ;rtm.f\·110016 """:011·26513265"""" 011·26865206 t-ir.r: sec ·[email protected]~: www.nrpc.gov.in 18wA, Shaheed Jeet Singh Marg. Katwaria Sarai. New Delhl-11 0016 Phone: 011-26513265 Fax: 011-26865206 e- mail: [email protected]: www.nrpc.gov.in

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INDEX

ITEM-1 Confirmation of Minutes of 41st Meeting of Commercial Sub Committee of NRPC ................ 1 ITEM-2 Recent MoP and CERC Orders/Draft Regulations ................................................................. 1 ITEM-3 Energy accounting of Auxiliary & Housing colony consumption at Grid Substations of BBMB.

(Agenda by BBMB) ................................................................................................................. 4 ITEM-4 Default in payment of outstanding dues and surcharge by beneficiaries ............................... 6 ITEM-5 Opening of Letter of Credit (LC) (Agenda by NHPC) .............................................................. 9 ITEM-6 Opening of Letter of Credit for FY 2020-21 by all the Discoms(Agenda by THDCIL) ............ 9 ITEM-7 Non-Opening of Letter of Credit by certain beneficiaries for power supplied from NJHPS &

RHPS (Agenda by SJVNL) ..................................................................................................... 9 ITEM-8 Non-Opening of Letter of Credit (LC) (Agenda by POWERGRID) ....................................... 10 ITEM-9 Non-payment of LPS by the Beneficiaries (Agenda by SJVNL) ........................................... 10 ITEM-10 Double billing of transmission charges (Agenda by TPDDL) ............................................ 11 ITEM-11 Excess Billing of transmission charges (Agenda by TPDDL) ........................................... 11 ITEM-12 Refund of STOA charges to Tata Power-DDL (Agenda by TPDDL) ................................ 12 ITEM-13 Reconciliation Issue regarding DSM/UI accounts with SLDC (Agenda by TPDDL) ......... 12 ITEM-14 Status of DSM Charges (Agenda by NRLDC) .................................................................. 13 ITEM-15 Submission of Bank Account details for Disbursement of payments of Pool Accounts

(Agenda by NRLDC) ......................................................................................................... 13 ITEM-16 Status of LC against Deviation Charges delayed payment (Agenda by NRLDC) ............ 14 ITEM-17 Reactive Energy charges status (Agenda by NRLDC) ..................................................... 14 ITEM-18 Reconciliation of Pool Accounts (October 19 to December 19) (Agenda by NRLDC) ..... 15 ITEM-19 Status of Ancillary Services (Agenda by NRLDC) ............................................................ 16 ITEM-20 NRLDC Fee & Charges (Agenda by NRLDC) .................................................................. 16 ITEM-21 Reconciliation of NRLDC Fee and charges (Agenda by NRLDC) .................................... 17 ITEM-22 Reconciliation of STOA (Short Term Open Access) Charges disbursement (Agenda by

NRLDC) ............................................................................................................................. 18 ITEM-23 Status of Outstanding STOA Delay Payment Interest as on 25th February 2020 (Agenda

by NRLDC) ........................................................................................................................ 18 ITEM-24 Five Minutes Metering pilot project Status (Agenda by NRLDC) ...................................... 18 ITEM-25 Installation of Interface meter on 220 KV Drass-Alusteng Line (Agenda by NRLDC) ...... 19 ITEM-26 STATUS of AMR Integration work (Agenda by NRLDC) .................................................. 20 ITEM-27 Integration of AMR System with Elster Meters (Agenda by NRLDC) ............................... 20 ITEM-28 Status regarding procurement of DCD/Meters (Agenda by NRLDC) ............................... 21 ITEM-29 Time drift Correction in Interface Energy Meters (Agenda by NRLDC) ............................ 21 ITEM-30 Replacement/Rectification of SEM meters (Agenda by NRLDC) ..................................... 23 ITEM-31 Nomination of nodal officer (Agenda by NRLDC) ............................................................. 23 ITEM-32 Long pending outstanding dues on account of wheeling charges payable by Delhi

DISCOMs, J&K Government (Power Development Department- PDD) and Haryana to BBMB (Additional Agenda by BBMB) ............................................................................... 24

ITEM-33 Certification of Open Cycle generation for Gas stations under RRAS (Table Agenda by NTPC)................................................................................................................................ 27

Annexure-I ............................................................................................................................................. 30 Annexure-3.2 ......................................................................................................................................... 37 Annexure-3.3 ......................................................................................................................................... 38 Annexure-3.4 ......................................................................................................................................... 39 Annexure-3.5 ......................................................................................................................................... 41 Annexure-30.1 ....................................................................................................................................... 46 Annexure-32.1 ....................................................................................................................................... 48 Annexure-32.2 ....................................................................................................................................... 50 Annexure-32.3 ....................................................................................................................................... 51 Annexure-32.4 ....................................................................................................................................... 52 Annexure-33.1 ....................................................................................................................................... 53 Annexure-33.2 ....................................................................................................................................... 55

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MINUTES OF

42nd MEETING OF COMMERCIAL SUB-COMMITTEE OF NRPC

The 42nd meeting of Commercial Sub-Committee of NRPC was held through

WebEx video conferencing on 20th May 2020 under the chairmanship of

Member Secretary, NRPC. The list of participants is enclosed at Annexure-I.

Member Secretary, NRPC while welcoming the delegates, stated that this is

the first time that meeting of Commercial sub-committee, is being organised

through webex video conferencing. He further stated that in these trying times

of COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing is very important tool in view of

present scenario and importance of commercial issue and upcoming

TCC/NRPC meetings, it was necessary to call the meeting through video

conferencing so that the recommendations of Commercial Sub- Committee,

could be placed before TCC/NRPC, for taking a final view in the matter. He

further stated that there was a long list of agenda items, some of them, were

like BBMB housing colony supply related, Transmission charges related and

long outstanding dues of various utilities, metering and AMR related issues

etc. He informed the members about the Draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill

2020. With these remarks, he requested Superintending Engineer (C), NRPC

to take up the agenda for deliberation.

ITEM-1 Confirmation of Minutes of 41st Meeting of Commercial Sub Committee

of NRPC

1.1 SE(C) informed that the minutes of 41st meeting of Commercial Sub-

committee, held on 19th November, 2019, were issued vide letter No.

NRPC/Comml/210/CSC(41)/2019/15609-52 dated 23rd December, 2019. No

comment has been received on the minutes.

1.2 Sub-committee confirmed the minutes of 41st CSC meeting of NRPC.

ITEM-2 Recent MoP and CERC Orders/Draft Regulations

A. CEA (Installation and Operation of Meters) (Amendment)

Regulations,2019

Representative of NRLDC made a presentation on Central Electricity Authority (Installation and Operation of Meters) (Amendment) Regulations,2019. He stated that it had been notified vide CEA-GO-13-15/3/2019-DPR dated 23rd December 2019.

He presented some of the salient features of Central Electricity Authority (Installation and Operation of Meters) (Amendment) Regulations,2019 in reference to interface meters as below:

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Description Modified Regulation

Generating Unit Main and check meters

On all outgoing feeders including bus sectionalizer or tie line between two stages of generating stations having different tariffs or different ownership or both

In regulation 7(1) Table (1)

Frequency i. All new meters shall have capability of recording frequency in steps of 0.01 Hz ii. All new meters shall be re-configurable at site for change of time block as specified by the Central Commission

In regulation 17 part-II in (k) and(L)

Watt Hour and VAr Hour

Cumulative Wh/Vh transmittal at each midnight, in eight digits including one decimal

In regulation 17 part-II in b(iii)/b(iv)

Voltage capable of storing data for a period of at least last ten days a. Average voltage upto 2 decimal truncation The meters shall also display (on demand) a. Voltage-Low VArh register reading b. Voltage-high VArh register reading c.Net VArh transmittal in the previous time block, with +/-sign

In regulation 17 part-2 in b(viii) In regulation 17 part 2 in g(ix) and g(x)

Time Sync Each meter shall have a built-in calendar and clock and shall have facility of automatic time synchronisation

In regulation 17 part 2 in h(iii)

Calibration and testing

All interface meters shall be tested on-site using accredited test laboratory for routine accuracy testing at least once in five years and recalibrated if required (whenever data is abnormal)

In regulation 14 in b

Representative of NRLDC stated that since, CEA had already notified the

amendment Regulations, and therefore there was a need of replacement

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of all interface energy meters in Northern Region too. He informed that

Western region, had already gone ahead with process for procurement of

interface Energy meters for their constituents. He proposed that

POWERGRID should share their experience of Western Region and

present the draft proposal for procurement of New Meters including the

draft Technical Specification of energy Meters and AMR system, in next

commercial sub-committee meeting.

POWERGRID agreed for the same.

Sub-committee opined that before proceeding to the installation of new

meters as per the new regulation, the feasibility of the optical fibre to the

location be assured, and therefore DIC’s input in this regard is required. It

was also opined that creation of fibre infrastructure wherever required can

be commenced immediately, as it is otherwise also required.

MS, NRPC stated that consequent upon notification of CEA’s Metering

regulations, replacement of interface meters is relevant for all the regions

and therefore to have uniform metering specifications, it needs to be

decided at NPC forum.

B. Some provision of CERC (Deviation Settlement Mechanism)

Regulations (5th Amendment) which will now come into force w.e.f 01-06-2020 SE(C), NRPC stated that Regulation 7 (10) CERC (Deviation Settlement Mechanism and related matters), (Fifth Amendment) Regulations, 2019 provides the sign change violation clause for the period to be effective from 01-06-2020 as per order in petition no. 4/SM/2020; quoted below: -

Clause (10) of Regulation 7 of the Principal Regulations shall be substituted as under:

b) If the sustained deviation from schedule continues in one direction (positive or negative) for 6 time blocks, the regional entity (buyer or seller), shall correct its position, by making the sign of its deviation from schedule changed or by remaining in the range of +/- 20 MW with reference to its schedule, at least once, latest by 7th time block. The violation of the requirement under clause (b) of this Regulation shall attract an additional charge as specified in the table below:

No. of violations in a Day Additional Charge Payable for each violation

From first to fifth violation additional charge @ 3% of daily base DSM charge payable or receivable

From sixth to tenth violation

additional charge @ 5% of daily base DSM charge payable or receivable

From eleventh violation onwards

additional charge @ 10% of daily base DSM charge payable or receivable

A detailed presentation was also made by representative of NRLDC.

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Members noted the information.

ITEM-3 Energy accounting of Auxiliary & Housing colony consumption at Grid

Substations of BBMB. (Agenda by BBMB)

3.1 Representative of BBMB stated that in compliance to CERC direction, BBMB

generating Stations & transmission system had come under ABT mechanism

w.e.f 01.06.2016. To discuss the modalities regarding scheduling, metering &

energy accounting of BBMB generating stations under ABT, a meeting was

held on 29.08.2016 at NRPC Secretariat, wherein it was decided that w.e.f

01.06.2016, there should not be any adjustment of auxiliary consumption of

BBMB substations in actual drawal of States and Generation of BBMB

Generating Station. NRPC suggested that BBMB could take up the matter with

States concerned. (Annexure-3.1, Para-9).

I. Energy Accounting of Auxiliary & Housing colony consumption at

Grid Substations of BBMB prior to implementation of ABT in BBMB

i.e. Up to 31.05.2016 was as under:

Representative of BBMB stated that energy consumption (Auxiliary &

Housing Colony) at various BBMB Grid sub-stations was being considered

as Project Consumption of BBMB as per the provisions in the Electricity

Act, 2003 {The Electricity (Removal of Difficulty) Seventh Order, 2005} and

no license is required for supply of electricity to the housing colonies

located in premises of substation (Annexure-3.2).

BBMB was supplying electricity to colonies located at its sub-stations. This

consumption was, however, met from respective State Discoms where the

substation was located. ln order to account for this energy as BBMB

consumption, due credit for the energy consumed at various substations

was given to the respective constituents in their metered drawl by

NRLDC/NRPC in the Regional Energy Accounts. This energy was treated

as common pool consumption of Bhakra complex and was subtracted from

the Ex-Bus energy sent out/scheduled from Bhakra Complex power

houses before working out energy shares of partner states of BBMB in the

Regional Energy Accounts (REAs) issued by NRPC. The above Energy

accounting procedure was being done as per the decision taken in 120th

Commercial Sub-Committee meeting of erstwhile NREB held on

22.11.2005 (MOM enclosed as Annexure-3.3).

II. Energy Accounting Mechanism after the implementation of ABT in

BBMB i.e. w.e.f. 1.06.2016

BBMB stated that in view of the decision taken in the meeting held at

NRPC Secretariat on dated 29.08.2016 (refer Annexure-3.1), the above

energy accounting procedure (adjustment in the metered drawl of states

and Bhakra Generation) has been discontinued w.e.f. 01.06.2016. Since

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then credit of the energy consumed at BBMB grid substations is not being

given to concerned power utilities by NRPC.

He mentioned that energy consumption at the BBMB Power House

colonies was also being accounted for by adjusting the metered drawl of

States from the grid and generation of respective power houses.

III. Implications/difficulties being faced in view of the decision taken in

the meeting held on 29.08.2016:

He pointed out that if BBMB takes separate electricity supply

connection to meet the requirement of auxiliary consumption/colony

supplies at its Substations (about 16 locations) from the respective

State DISCOMS, this consumption will be accounted for in the drawl of

respective constituents States and not for as BBMB consumption

(Project supply). As Such, BBMB cannot supply electricity to its Housing

colonies located at its respective substations without distribution license

as per the provision of Electricity Act 2003.

It involves other complications (segregation of load etc.) & financial

transactions.

He further stated that, State Discoms have started raising energy bills on

account of auxiliary/colony consumption at some of the BBMB substations.

IV. ln view of the above constraints/difficulties and fact that this energy

consumption is meagre (about 6-7 LU/month), matter was discussed as an

agenda item in the 40th Commercial Sub-Committee meeting of NRPC

held on 12.09.2019 at Delhi with the proposal to restore the earlier energy

accounting procedure for auxiliary & housing colony energy consumption

at its substations (i.e. prior to implementation of ABT in BBMB) by

adjusting in the metered drawl of respective States and generation of

Bhakra Complex retrospectively.

During deliberation, MS, NRPC advised BBMB to discuss the matter with

their partner states first and based on the outcome of the same, matter

may be brought in next CSC meeting, if required. BBMB agreed for the

same. (MOM of 40th CSC is enclosed as Annexure-3.4).

V. Accordingly, matter was discussed with the partner States in the 139th

Power Sub-Committee (PSC) meeting of BBMB held on 25.11.2019 with

the following proposal:

a) To avoid complexity, earlier energy accounting procedure (i.e. before

the implementation of ABT in BBMB) of aux. Consumption/Colony

supplies at various Grid Substations of BBMB by adjusting in the

metered drawl of respective States and generation of Bhakra Complex

as approved in the 120th Commercial Sub-Committee meeting of

erstwhile NREB and explained in "Para l" above, may be restored.

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b) BBMB will supply Substation wise aux. Consumption & Colony supply

data as recorded on the conventional energy meters at the end of

Financial year to NRPC. The average auxiliary consumption of last

year shall be considered as common pool supply under lW

consumption (which also includes the Colony supply consumption of

Bhakra power House) of Bhakra and shall be subtracted from Ex-Bus

generation schedule of Bhakra Complex before working out the share

of partner states. Due credit of the same shall be given to respective

constituent States in their metered drawl in the REAs as was being

done earlier. However, auxiliary/colony supply consumption at BBMB

substations accumulated w.e.f 01.06.2016 upto 31.03.2019 shall be

adjusted in the same manner.

After detailed deliberations, the above proposal was unanimously

approved by the Power Sub-Committee of BBMB. Agenda & MOM of PSC

is enclosed as Annexure-3.5.

Representative of NRLDC stated that since BBMB had come under ABT

regime from 01-06-2016 so there should not be any post facto adjustments.

MS, NRPC sought the methodology from POWERGRID about their substation

auxiliary power supply aspect. Representative of POWERGRID stated that for

AC sub-station, power is procured from Discom and for HVDC stations, power

has been got allocated from CSGS.

Sub-Committee concluded that as ABT mechanism restricts post facto

adjustments and sub-stations of other licensees have also been procuring

power from their respective Discoms for their auxiliary and housing colony

supply, BBMB should also follow the same as per present regulatory

provisions.

MS, NRPC amply clarified BBMB that CERC order for bringing BBMB under

ABT regime is to be followed in toto and in case BBMB wants any

dilution/deviation then BBMB is to approach CERC. NRPC forum is not

empowered to approve any deviation of CERC orders.

ITEM-4 Default in payment of outstanding dues and surcharge by beneficiaries

4.1 The details of outstanding dues are as under:

THDC

Discoms Total Outstanding

in Rs Cr.

BRPL,

Delhi

154 Representative of BRPL stated that they are making

current payment. THDC requested BRPL to submit

liquidation plan.

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BYPL,

Delhi

267 Representative of THDC stated that they received

last payment on 29th Feb.,2020 and thereafter, no

payment has been received from BYPL.

PDD, J&K 220.86 PDD, J&K was not present in the meeting.

JKPCL,

J&K

89.54 JKPCL, J&K was not present in the meeting.

UPPCL,

UP

1580.14 UPPCL was not present in the meeting

JdVVNL,

Rajasthan

19.07 Payment would be made shortly.

AVVNL,

Rajasthan

8.48 Payment would be made shortly.

UPCL,

Uttrakhand

10.60 UPCL was not present in the meeting

4.2 Representative of BRPL highlighted the MoP order dated 15th & 16th May,

2020 regarding liquidity infusion by PFC/REC of Rs. 90,000 crores to

DISCOMs against receivables and loans to be given against State guarantees

for exclusive purpose of discharging liabilities of DISCOMS towards power

Generating companies (Gencos), and also giving rebate to DISCOMs by

Central Public Sector Generation Companies. He sought to know the status

from Generating companies for implementation of the above MoP orders.

4.3 Representative of THDC, SJVN and NTPC stated that this matter is being

discussed with their management and Discoms would be informed

accordingly.

SJVNL (as on 28.02.2020)

S.No. Beneficiary

Total Dues excluding

Surcharge (in Rs Cr.)

Remarks

1. Govt. of HP/HPSEB 21.13

+ 315.03 (LPS)

Payment would be made shortly.

2. PDD, J&K 418.96

Since representative of PDD, J&K was not present in the meeting. Representative of SJVN sought to know that whether JKPCL is extension of PDD, J&K or a separated

company and liabilities of PDD J&K would be transferred to JKPCL or not. It was

opined that a separate meeting with J&K may be called.

3. UPPCL, Uttar Pradesh 337.63

+ 162.36 (LPS)

UPPCL was not present in the meeting.

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4. Rajasthan Discoms 3.47 (AVVNL) 3.94 (JVVNL)

39.71(JdVVNL) Payment would be made shortly.

6. UPCL 21.81

+ 7.38 (LPS)

UPCL was not present in the meeting.

NHPC (as on 03.03.2020) (Amount in Rs crores)

Sl. No.

Beneficiary Principal Dues

Outstanding Dues of

more than 45 days

Surcharge up to

29.02.2020

Total Dues including Surcharge

1. PDD, J&K 1418.02 1338.15 234.16 1652.18

2. UPPCL, UP 853.51 782.90 116.86 970.37

3. AVVNL, Rajasthan 19.38 10.53 2.32 21.70

4. JdVVNL, Rajasthan

23.65 13.47 2.73 26.38

5. JdVVNL, Rajasthan (Wind)

22.82 18.76 3.50 26.32

6. PSPCL, Punjab 110.21 63.59 11.35 121.56

7. UPCL, Uttrakhand 20.85 7.33 1.20 22.05

4.4 Representative of NHPC informed that due to non-payment by above

defaulting beneficiaries, NHPC is finding it very difficult to meet the debt

service obligations and O&M expenses of its power stations. NHPC is a public

listed company and is answerable to its stake/share holders and such a huge

outstanding balance is also attracting specific attention of the audits.

4.5 Sub-committee advised to liquidate the outstanding dues and surcharge at the

earliest.

POWERGRID Status as on 26.02.2020

4.6 Outstanding dues more than 45 days:

Name of Beneficiaries POC Billing

BYPL (Delhi Discoms) Rs. 84 Cr.

UPCL(Uttrakhand) Rs. 76 Cr.

AVVN (Ajmer (Discom) Rs. 134 Cr.

JDVVN (Jodhpur Discom) Rs. 179 Cr.

J&K Rs. 624 Cr.

HPPC (Haryana) Rs. 60 Cr. Representative of HPPC stated that the payment has been made.

HPSEB (Himachal Pradesh)

Rs. 108 Cr. Representative of HPSEBL stated that the payment has been made of 28-02-2020.

PSPCL (Punjab) Rs. 299 Cr.

UPPCL (Uttar Pradesh) Rs. 511 Cr.

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MB Power Rs. 55 Cr.

DB Power Rs. 15 Cr.

GMRKEL Rs. 82 Cr.

RKM Rs. 49 Cr.

TRN Rs. 134 Cr.

KSK Mahanadi Rs. 88 Cr.

4.7 Sub-committee advised to liquidate the outstanding dues and surcharge at the

earliest.

ITEM-5 Opening of Letter of Credit (LC) (Agenda by NHPC)

5.1 Representative of NHPC stated that the LC of Rs.274.806 Crs opened by

JKPCL on behalf of PDD, J&K in favour of NHPC Ltd. has expired on

13.11.2019.

Since representative of PDD, J&K was not present in the meeting, therefore,

latest status could not be ascertained.

ITEM-6 Opening of Letter of Credit for FY 2020-21 by all the Discoms(Agenda by

THDCIL)

6.1 Representative of THDCIL stated that as per Power Purchase Agreements

signed between THDC India Limited & the beneficiaries and MoP, GoI Order

dated 28.06.2019, the LC of requisite amount must be opened by the Discom.

Therefore, LC for FY 2020-21 is to be opened by the Discoms latest by

31.03.2020. The request letters alongwith details of requisite amount of LC by

THDCIL have been sent to concerned Discoms on 06.02.2020.

6.2 Sub-committee requested all the Discoms to open the LC of requisite amount.

ITEM-7 Non-Opening of Letter of Credit by certain beneficiaries for power

supplied from NJHPS & RHPS (Agenda by SJVNL)

7.1 Representative of SJVNL stated that as per mutually signed Power Purchase

Agreement and order dated 28.06.2019 issued by Ministry of Power,

Beneficiary was to submit a confirmed, revolving, irrevocable Letter of Credit in

favour of SJVN for an amount equivalent to 105% of average monthly billing of

preceding 12 months with appropriate bank as mutually acceptable to parties.

The LC shall be kept valid at all the time during the validity of the Power

Purchase Agreement. In spite of repeated reminders, PDD J&K yet to submit

the requisite Letter of Credit for the FY 2020-21.

7.2 Since representative of PDD, J&K was not present in the meeting. Therefore

latest status could not be ascertained.

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ITEM-8 Non-Opening of Letter of Credit (LC) (Agenda by POWERGRID)

BRPL

LC submitted by BRPL has expired on 31.03.2015. BRPL has to open irrevocable monthly revolving Letter of Credits for Rs. 107 Cr. towards POC bills. No action so far even after repeated reminders /notices & personal meetings.

BYPL

LC submitted by BYPL has expired on 28.09.2016. BYPL has to open irrevocable monthly revolving Letter of Credits for Rs. 63 Cr. towards POC bills. No action so far even after repeated reminders /notices & personal meetings.

PTC (Lanco Amarkantak)

LC submitted by Lanco Amarkantak has expired on 13.01.2018. PTC (Lanco Amarkantak) has to open irrevocable monthly revolving Letter of Credits for Rs. 27 Cr. towards POC bills. No action so far even after repeated reminders /notices.

J&K

J&K has not opened irrevocable monthly revolving Letter of Credits, which is mandatory as per CERC Regulations. J&K has to open irrevocable monthly revolving Letter of Credits for Rs. 31.63 Cr. towards POC bills. No action so far even after repeated reminders /notices & personal meetings.

Sub-committee requested to open the LC of requisite amount.

ITEM-9 Non-payment of LPS by the Beneficiaries (Agenda by SJVNL)

9.1 SJVNL quoted the decision of 41st CSC meeting

3.2 On the issue of adjustment of current payment being done by

beneficiaries, for principal energy charges against LPSC, following

options were suggested by some of the members:

Payment received may be adjusted 100% against LPSC first.

To begin with, the adjustment of payment would be made in the

ratio of 80:20 i.e. payment received may be adjusted 80%

against principal energy charges and remaining 20% against

LPSC.

PPA condition would prevail over the above two options.

SE(C) pointed out that such type of adjustment from principal energy

charges with LPSC, would lead to encashment of LC on each occasion,

in accordance with recent Order/Guidelines, issued by Ministry of

Power on Payment Security Mechanism.

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Finally, it was decided that the financial mechanism for settlement

including the above options, may again be deliberated in the next CSC

meeting.

SJVNL stated that above decision of 41st CSC was not honored while making

the payment. SE(C), NRPC, stated that while going through the above para, it

was apparent that the matter needs deliberation in this meeting.

9.2 Representative of NRLDC stated that Power Companies may go for power

regulation as per existing regulatory provisions.

9.3 Sub-Committee advised that all utilities need to abide by the CERC’s

regulatory provisions and MoP’s orders while releasing the payment.

ITEM-10 Double billing of transmission charges (Agenda by TPDDL)

10.1 Representative of TPDDL stated that transmission charges corresponding to

14 MW LTOA granted to Suryakanta Hydro Energies Private Limited by

PGCIL, to Tata Power-DDL since July’19 were being billed by CTU as well as

Delhi SLDC due to lack of clarity regarding billing methodology.

10.2 SE(C), NRPC briefed that as per LTA terms, Suryakanta HEPL is supposed to

pay transmission charges for the contracted amount of power. Since LTA

quantum also reflects in Delhi’s total approved drawl, therefore Delhi SLDC

should clearly publish breakup of the total approved access quantum of

different discoms after subtracting the quantum corresponding to Suryakanta

HEPL and similarly placed generators or may indicate quantum of LTA in

respect of such generators separately so that CTU can use the same before

billing to the Delhi Discoms.

Representative of CTU consented for above approach. Further, ED, NRLDC

assured that he would also discuss the matter with NLDC and try to find out

solution expeditiously.

10.3 Representative of TPDDL raised the similar concern about Nanti Hydro Power

Project limited and Taranda Hydro Power Project limited. SE(C), NRPC stated

that similar treatment may be done for likewise LTAs.

ITEM-11 Excess Billing of transmission charges (Agenda by TPDDL)

11.1 Representative of TPDDL stated that there was excess billing of transmission

charges corresponding to 8.00 MW (approx.) on Tata Power-DDL on account

of incorrect sharing of LTOA quantum of DVC pool power (300 MW) Among

Delhi Discoms by Delhi SLDC due to unavailability of supporting documents

with SLDC in respect of same since June’2019. He further stated that this

issue has been resolved provisionally by Delhi SLDC. He added that

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necessary documents are required by Delhi SLDC mentioning the Discom

Wise LTA quantum from DVC and for revising state Transmission account on

a retrospective basis.

11.2 Representative of TPDDL stated that there was excess billing of transmission

charges corresponding to 2.70 MW (approx.) on Tata Power-DDL due to Non

reduction in LTOA quantum of Mejia-6 Power (100 MW) in NRPC RTA. He

added that from the PGCIL’s letter dated 15th May’2019 in this regard, it was

understood that being a Government allocation, the same is to be done by

NRPC.

SE(C), NRPC stated that NRPC provides percentage allocation to NLDC for

preparation of input data of RTA and thereafter, NLDC provides LTA quantum

by reducing auxiliary consumption.

NRLDC stated that since it is quite old LTA, therefore, it needs to be relooked.

He stated that the matter would be discussed with NLDC and outcome would

be apprised to NRPC shortly.

ITEM-12 Refund of STOA charges to Tata Power-DDL (Agenda by TPDDL)

12.1 Representative of TPDDL stated that the matter relates to refund of STOA

charges to Tata Power-DDL pertaining to FY 2018-19 & 2019-20 in line with

DTL tariff order 31st July’ 2019 issued by Hon’ble DERC. Hon’ble DERC has

clarified on the matter vide letter dated 20th December’ 2019. He further

stated that, Letter no Tata Power-DDL/Delhi SLDC/14022020 dated 14th Feb’

2020 and Letter no Tata Power-DDL /PMG/2019-20/25112019 dated 25th

November’ 2019 had been sent to Delhi SLDC to do the needful. However, the

matter was yet to be resolved.

12.2 Since representative of Delhi SLDC was not present in the meeting therefore

latest status could not be ascertained.

ITEM-13 Reconciliation Issue regarding DSM/UI accounts with SLDC (Agenda by

TPDDL)

13.1 Representative of TPDDL stated that there is reconciliation issue regarding

DSM/UI accounts with SLDC and interest payment thereon. He added that

despite the concern being raised at a number of occasions at Commercial

subcommittee meetings, GCC meetings and also through letters/ mails

/meetings reconciliation of UI/DSM accounts was not done by SLDC since

2015. Besides that, SLDC did not release interest on account of delay in UI

receipts despite the Hon’ble Commission order dated 29.12.2014. He

requested Committee to advise SLDC to release the interest amount

immediately up to reconciliation period up to Mar 2015 and sign reconciliation

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from Apr 2015 upto Dec 2019 and release the interest payment for that that

period.

13.2 Since representative of Delhi SLDC was not present in the meeting, therefore

latest status could not be ascertained.

ITEM-14 Status of DSM Charges (Agenda by NRLDC)

14.1 Representative of NRLDC stated that JKPCL & POWERGRID has long

pending (more than 90 days) outstanding against deviation charges for the

amount to the tune of Rs. 4587.24 Lakhs (including Delay Payment Interest) &

177.26 Lakhs respectively.

14.2 He further stated that, JKPCL have intimated that, the outstanding payments

prior to 15 August 2019 are kept in the shape of hundi and is being taken up

with Govt. of J&K for settlement of the same and the outstanding post august

2019 is being taken up by JKPCL for settlement.

14.3 He informed that several correspondences were made to JKPCL for clearing

of the outstanding, also it was attempted to implement section 25 A of CERC

Regulation to deny STOA for non- settlement of the long pending payments,

but was withdrawn depending on the request of JKPCL.

14.4 Since no representative of JKPCL was present in the meeting. Member

secretary, NRPC convened that, the issues of JKPCL will be taken separately

in a special meeting only for J&K with the Principle Secretary of J&K.

14.5 Member secretary, NRPC advised POWERGRID to settle the long pending

outstanding deviation charges.

14.6 Representative of NRLDC stated that, Uttarakhand has been paying the

charges against deviation in time regularly, but are delaying the payments

from the past few months. Amount of Rs.664.19 lakhs is pending.

14.7 Since representative from Uttarakhand was not present in the meeting

therefore latest status could not be ascertained.

14.8 Member secretary, NRPC advised all the defaulting utilities to clear all the

outstanding DSM charges at the earliest. He further stated that all payable

utilities should make timely payment to DSM Pool Account in accordance with

CERC Regulations to avoid further increase of Delay Payment Interest.

ITEM-15 Submission of Bank Account details for Disbursement of payments of

Pool Accounts (Agenda by NRLDC)

15.1 Representative of NRLDC stated that the payments to JKPCL, Chandigarh &

Railways from the pool accounts are being made through cheques. He

requested to the entities to provide bank details to enable electronic mode of

payments,

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15.2 He informed that JKPCL had provided the bank details. The same was

awaited from Chandigarh & Railways.

15.3 Sub-committee advised to provide details at the earliest.

ITEM-16 Status of LC against Deviation Charges delayed payment (Agenda by

NRLDC)

16.1 Representative of NRLDC apprised the latest status of opening of LC as per

CERC Deviation Settlement Mechanism Regulation due to default in making

payment of DSM charges. He further stated that, amount for which the LC

needs to be opened by the entities for defaulting in the payments of Deviation

Charges in the FY 2019-20 and in which format the LC needs to be opened

has been communicated vide letter Dt: 13-05-2020.

Status of Letter of Credit for Deviation Charges FY 2019-20 is shown below:

Sl. No

Constituents No of

defaults in Payment

LC Amount (Rs. in Lakh.)

LC Status

1 UT Chandigarh 2 64.62 LC Opened for Rs. 67.50

Lakhs valid till 31-03-2021

2 Uttarakhand 39 157.32 LC Not Opened

3 Powergrid NR 36 7.34 LC Not Opened

4 JKPCL 25 309.07 LC Not Opened

5 Punjab 20 175.47 LC Not Opened

6 Azure Power Solar 15 18.38 LC Not Opened

7 Greenko Bhudil 11 10.78 LC Not Opened

8 Azure Power 34 Solar 8 18.27 LC Not Opened

9 Renew Power Solar 7 9.81 LC Not Opened

10 Mahoba Solar 5 21.50 LC Not Opened

11 ACME Solar 5 12.44 LC Not Opened

12 SB Energy Solar 4 15.59 LC Not Opened

13 Himachal Pradesh 1 236.29 LC Not Opened

14 Railways 1 22.71 LC Not Opened

15 Nepal (PTC) 1 19.60 LC Not Opened

16 CSP Bhadla 1 18.38 LC Not Opened

16.2 He requested to the entities to open the LC in the format provided by NRLDC

at the earliest within the timeline as specified in CERC Regulations.

16.3 Members of the sub-committee advised all the defaulting entities to open the

LC against Deviation Charges in compliance to CERC Regulations.

ITEM-17 Reactive Energy charges status (Agenda by NRLDC)

17.1 Representative of NRLDC informed that JKPCL has long pending (more than

90 days) outstanding against Reactive Energy charges for the amount to the

tune of Rs. 1261.55 Lakhs (including Delay Payment Interest).

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17.2 He stated that, JKPCL has intimated that, the outstanding payments prior to

15 August 2019 are kept in the shape of hundi and is being taken up with

Govt. of J&K for settlement of the same and the outstanding post august 2019

is being taken up by JKPCL for settlement.

17.3 He further stated that several correspondences were made to JKPCL for

clearing of the outstanding, also it was attempted to implement section 25 A of

CERC Regulation to deny STOA for non- settlement of the long pending

payments, but was withdrawn depending on the request of JKPCL.

17.4 Since no representative of JKPCL was present in the meeting.

17.5 Member secretary, NRPC convened that, the issues of JKPCL will be taken

separately in a special meeting.

17.6 Representative of NRLDC stated that, Uttar Pradesh outstanding against

Reactive Energy charges for is Rs. 737.47 Lakhs as on 20-05-2020 Uttar

Pradesh has been paying the charges in time regularly, but are delaying the

payments from the past few months.

17.7 Since representative from Uttar Pradesh was not present in the meeting

therefore latest status could not be ascertained.

17.8 Member secretary, NRPC advised all the defaulting utilities to clear all the

outstanding RE charges at the earliest. All payable utilities were requested to

make timely payment to RE Pool Account in accordance with CERC

Regulations and to avoid further increase of Delay Payment Interest.

ITEM-18 Reconciliation of Pool Accounts (October 19 to December 19) (Agenda

by NRLDC)

18.1 Representative of NRLDC stated that reconciliation statement of pool

accounts for Quarter 3 & Quarter 4 of FY 2019-20 has been forwarded to

entities and uploaded on website by NRLDC on 10.01.2020 & 09.04.2020

respectively.

18.2 He stated that, only a few entities are sending back the signed copy of

reconciliation.

18.3 He informed that, a separate web portal was created in house for

reconciliation of the pool accounts. He further informed that instead of

quarterly reconciliation, monthly reconciliation of pool accounts will be issued.

The regional entities would be provided with username & password to access

the web portal to reconcile the accounts. If there is no discrepancy the same

may be accepted by a click in the website, if there is any discrepancy then the

same needs to be intimated with the supporting documents through the

website itself.

18.4 He further stated that, the access of the website shall be given to NRPC as

well.

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18.5 He informed that due to the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, the website was

not able to be launched. However, the works of the same is at final stage &

shall be made available at the earliest. The website was prepared to reconcile

pool accounts at this time and the same shall be extended also to NRLDC Fee

& Charges & STOA in due course of time.

18.6 Member Secretary, NRPC appreciated the development of website by

NRLDC.

18.7 Representative of NRLDC again requested the concerned utilities to send the

signed reconciled statement for Q3 & Q4 of FY 19-20 within a week w.e.f.

20.05.2020. In case of non-receipt of any communication, it will be presumed

that reconciliation statement stands reconciled.

18.8 Members of the sub-committee advised all entities concerned to verify and

sign the reconciled statement regularly so as to avoid any dispute in future.

ITEM-19 Status of Ancillary Services (Agenda by NRLDC)

19.1 Representative of NRLDC informed that, the RRAS & AGC up service

providers upto week 52 of FY 2019-20 has been settled.

19.2 The RRAS up service upto week 2 of FY 2020-21 has been settled. & RRAS

up service for week 3 has been partially settled. Amount of Rs. 1,19,01,428/-

Out of Rs.5,10,43,107/- against Week 03 RRAS Up services is pending.

19.3 Members noted the information.

ITEM-20 NRLDC Fee & Charges (Agenda by NRLDC)

20.1 Representative of NRLDC stated that they are not sending the hard copies of

monthly bills to all the users from March-2020 Bill onwards due to COVID-19

pandemic. The bills are being mailed to all users on the day of billing and soft

copies of bills are also available to the link “https://nrldc.in/commercial/bill-

details/”.

20.2 Status of major outstanding against NRLDC Fee & Charges considering the

bill of Mar-2020 (due date for which is 16.05.2020) are shown here in below:

Sl.No. Entities Amount

Outstanding in Rs.

Remarks

1 JKPCL/PDD J&K 1,87,07,043 June -2019 to Mar-2020 Outstanding along with Surcharge outstanding

3 SORANG HEP 1,18,671 Jan-2020, & Mar-2020 outstanding along with Surcharge outstanding

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20.3 In addition to the above, there are some outstanding amount due to Rebate,

TDS, interest surcharge also with some constituents.

20.4 Representative of NRLDC requested to the users to clear the outstanding at

the earliest, otherwise NRLDC shall be constrained to take action such as

invoking section 25A of CERC Open Access Regulations / De-registration as

20.5 He further, requested all the Users that while making the payment please

provide the payment details in the prescribed format, as provided below:

NRLDC Fee & Charges Format for Payment made /TDS Deduction. USER Name

BILL MONTH

AND YEAR -

DATE of Bill

issue

Billed

AMOUNT

Date of

Bill

Receipt

by Users

Mode of

Payment

RTGS/NEF

T/Others

Date of

Clearing of

Payment

from Users

Bank A/c

Amount Paid into

POSOCO Fee &

Charge A/c by

Users

TDS-

deducted

by Users if

any

Rebate-

deducted by

Users if any

Amount-Admitted

(Paid+TDS

+Rebate) by Users

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7)=(4)+(5)+(6)

BILLING DETAILS SETTLEMENT DETAILS

20.6 However, it is observed that most of the Users are not providing the details as

per the enclosed formats.

20.7 Members of the sub-committee advised all constituents to clear all the

outstanding dues at the earliest and send the payment details as per format

for easy reconciliation.

ITEM-21 Reconciliation of NRLDC Fee and charges (Agenda by NRLDC)

21.1 Representative of NRLDC stated that vide letter dated 24/01/2020 they had

sent the reconciliation statements of NRLDC Fee and Charges for the quarter

-3, 2019-20 to all the users. He requested users to send the duly signed and

verified copy of reconciliation statement as a token of acceptance by 25-02-

2019. Reconciliation from below listed user has been received.

S

No. Name of Users

S No.

Name of Users

1 ADHPL 7 Naptha- Jhakri HEP

2 Koteshwar HEP 8 Rampur HEP

3 APCPL (Transmission Licensee and IGSTPS)

9 Azure Power Bhadla

4 Tanakpur HEP 10 Azure Power Thirty-four Pvt Ltd

5 Parbati-II HEP 11 HPSEBL

6 Tehri HEP 12 NRSS XXXIB Transmission Ltd

21.2 He further stated that NRLDC vide letter dated 24/04/2020 had sent the

reconciliation statements of NRLDC Fee and Charges for the quarter -4, 2019-

20 to all the users. The users were requested to send the duly signed and

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verified copy of reconciliation statement as a token of acceptance by 25-05-

2019. Reconciliation from below listed user has been received

S No.

Name of Users S

No. Name of Users

1 NAPS, NPCIL 7 RAPP Transmission Ltd

2 Koteshwar HEP 8 Gurgoan Palwal Transmission Ltd

3 APCPL (Transmission Licensee and IGSTPS)

9 Budhil HEP

4 NRSS XXXI B Transmission Ltd. 10 HP Seller (Rala, Nanti Small HEP, & Upper Nanti)

5 NRSS XXIX Transmission Ltd 11 NTPC (for all stations)

6 Patran Transmission Ltd

21.3 He requested entities to verify the Reconciliation statements and send the duly

signed copy as a normal practice. In case non receipt of any communication

with in one week from commercial sub-committee meeting (ie till 27.05.2020),

it will be presumed that statement stands reconciled.

21.4 Members of the sub-committee advised all members to check and send the

reconciliation statement in time for easy reconciliation and avoid any dispute in

future.

ITEM-22 Reconciliation of STOA (Short Term Open Access) Charges

disbursement (Agenda by NRLDC)

22.1 Representative of NRLDC stated that reconciliation statements was not being

received from utilities in a timely manner. He requested that all constituents

reconcile the statement on regular basis so as to avoid any dispute.

22.2 Members agreed that if reconciliation statement is not received in time, it will

be considered as deemed reconciled.

22.3 Members of the sub-committee advised all concerned utilities to verify and

sign the reconciliation statement (issued on quarterly basis) to avoid any

disputes in future.

ITEM-23 Status of Outstanding STOA Delay Payment Interest as on 25th February

2020 (Agenda by NRLDC)

23.1 Representative of NRLDC intimated the details of outstanding STOA delay

payment interest. The applicant wise outstanding interest amount (computed

till 17th May’2020) has been released.

23.2 Members of the sub-committee requested all the defaulting entities to make

interest payments at the earliest.

ITEM-24 Five Minutes Metering pilot project Status (Agenda by NRLDC)

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24.1 Representative of NRLDC informed that CERC vide it's Suo-Motu petition No.

07/SM/2018 dtd 16th of July 2018 on "Pilot Project on 05-Minute Scheduling,

Metering, Accounting and Settlement for Thermal/Hydro" has ordered CTU to

facilitate the pilot project with installation of 5-minute meters at the pre-

identified locations (NTPC Dadri (15 Nos.), THDC Tehri (2 Nos.), NTPC

Mouda (14 Nos.), NTPC Simhadri (6 Nos.), NTPC Bongaigaon (4 Nos.), NTPC

Barh (4 Nos.), NHPC Teesta (2 Nos.), NHPC Loktak (4 Nos.) generating

stations). Further, it was directed to complete the procurement and installation

of the 05-minute meters in the pilot project by the end of August, 2018 in

coordination with POSOCO. As per the information available with NRLDC, the

NRTS-1 has placed the LOA to M/s Elster but the same was terminated due to

non-compliance of some technical specifications and timeline. NRLDC

requested POWERGRID to apprise about the current status.

24.2 Representative of POWERGRID stated that meters has been ordered to M/s

L&T and M/s Secure meters Limited. M/s Secure meter has delivered the

meters. However, for Northern Region, meters are to be supplied by M/s L&T.

Due to lockdown there is a delay. It was expected that that within one and half

month the meters will be delivered and commissioned at site.

ITEM-25 Installation of Interface meter on 220 KV Drass-Alusteng Line (Agenda

by NRLDC)

25.1 Representative of NRLDC informed that after the formation of UT of J&K and

UT of Ladakh; 02 nos of interface meters are required to be installed on 220

KV Drass-Alusteng Line. Since there is internet communication issue at Drass

end, 01 interface meters as backup meter may also be installed at Kargil end.

In view of this, NRLDC vide email dated 14.12.2019 has intimated CTU to

arrange installation of interface meters on both side of 220 KV Alusteng Drass

single circuit line. Meter at Alusteng has been installed on 07.01.2020. But

even after several reminders, meter has not been installed at Kargil and Drass

end.

25.2 He explained the criticality of these meters for energy accounting and

expressed concern that despite the request was made almost 6 month ago, till

date meters has not been installed at Kargil and Drass end, despite repeated

reminders from NRLDC.

25.3 Representative of POWERGRD stated that due to lockdown Energy meters

could not be sent to site however as soon as the this lockdown open/permits

their person would replace and install the meters.

25.4 Members of the sub-committee apprised that this line is being monitored by

ministry so requested to install, attend and replace the defective meters as

early as possible.

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ITEM-26 STATUS of AMR Integration work (Agenda by NRLDC)

26.1 Representative of NRLDC apprised the members about current status of

integration of interface energy meters with AMR as follows:

26.2 He informed that the L&T make meters were almost integrated but still a lots of

Elster make meters are yet to be integrated. Further, he informed that even

those Elster make meters were integrated but their performance is not

satisfactory and leading to meter failure etc. NRLDC requested POWERGRID

to look into this long pending issue.

26.3 Representative of POWERGRID admitted that with the integration of Elster

make meter with AMR system the meters are becoming faulty and despite

their best efforts are not able to resolve the issue.

26.4 Representative of NRLDC requested POWERGRID to ensure supply of DCDs

in good working condition wherever meters are not integrated with AMR.

ITEM-27 Integration of AMR System with Elster Meters (Agenda by NRLDC)

27.1 Representative of NRLDC stated that in the last CSC meeting POWERGRID

has intimated that both M/s Kalkitech and M/s Synergy could integrate Elster

make meter with AMR system.

27.2 He apprised that though integration of Elster make meters has started,

NRLDC is not able to utilise the same for energy accounting purpose. There

are a number of issues observed as mentioned below and the same has been

communicated to POWERGRID regularly:

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27.3 He intimated that due to some technical issues or improper integration, the

incorrect AMR data is being fetched in-case the feeder is under shutdown for

24 hrs like Mandola PG.

27.4 He apprised sub-committee about inconsistency of reporting of all integrated

Elster meters at a location through AMR. Whole day meter data & * symbol

are missing in npc files provided by M/S Kalkitech like Meter NR-4474-A at

Ajmer PG for date 3.11.19.

27.5 He stated that in some meters .npc files provided by M/S Kalkitech, cumulative

WH,Reactive high and Reactive low energy are not recording like Chittorgarh

PG meter no NR-4534-A for week 28.10.19 to 03.11.19.

27.6 He further stated that cumulative energy of a day in npc file through DCD

showing opposite sign like NR-3217-A at Jalandhar PG from 14.10.19 to

18.10.19. Counter Register of WH, Reactive high & Low values in npc file are

Zero whereas block-wise data is available like meter NR-3329-A (AMR) at

Kurukshetra PG for week 28.10.19 to 03.11.19

27.7 He informed that after integration Elster meters with AMR system meters

became defective/faulty e.g. at Kuruksherta and Chittorgarh PG.

27.8 He expressed concern over these issues and it was requested that

POWERGRID would take up the matter with Kalkitech/Synergy to prevent

reoccurrences of such issues.

27.9 In this regards POWERGRID agreed that there was some technical problem

with Elster meters and the response of M/S Kalkitech is also not proper and

POWERGRID is now in process to blacklist the vendor/supplier and for that

need recommendation from NRPC. NRPC advised POWERGRID to forward

the communication letters with M/S Kalkitech and after reviewing the same

NRPC will take decision in this regard.

ITEM-28 Status regarding procurement of DCD/Meters (Agenda by NRLDC)

28.1 Representative of NRLDC intimated that vide its letter ref. no.

NRLDC/MO/Metering/10/986 dated 12.07.19, POWERGRID was

communicated regarding procurement of estimated quantity of DCDs and

Meters.

28.2 Representative of POWERGRID confirm regarding procurement of estimated

quantity of DCDs and Meters. He stated that LOA for 130 nos. of DCD and

240 nos. of Meters had been placed and within 1 month they would receive

secure meters in store and after that within 15 day they would replace meters

and provide DCD’s to site.

ITEM-29 Time drift Correction in Interface Energy Meters (Agenda by NRLDC)

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29.1 Representative of NRLDC intimated that there was a significant reduction in

Time drift in Interface Energy Meters (around 600 meters 2 years back to

around 77 in last CSC meeting) due to efforts taken by all utilities. However, it

is observed that the number has again started increasing and last week

around 130 meters are suspected to have time drift. The present status is

shown below:

29.2 Representative of Haryana stated that they were taking the corrective action,

but since some meters have time drift of more than 10-15 minutes, it will take

2-3 months time to correct them. One of the meter was having very high time

drift and Haryana and NRLDC had requested POWERGRID to replace the

same. However, POWERGRID had not yet replaced the meter despite

repeated reminders. Representative of POWERGRID stated they will look into

the matter and will replace the meter within a weeks’ time.

29.3 Representative of NRLDC intimated that letter was being sent to all utilities for

time drift correction and requested all utilities to send the time drift report

atleast once in a month as per the format shown below:

Location/ Substation

Meter No.

Meter location details

Time as per S/Stn GPS

Time as per meter

Time Drift

Action Taken

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29.4 Members of the sub-committee requested to all constituents again to monitor

the time drift on weekly basis and take corrective actions for time correction on

regular basis.

ITEM-30 Replacement/Rectification of SEM meters (Agenda by NRLDC)

30.1 Representative of NRLDC intimated that they were uploading the Discrepancy

report of meters on weekly basis on NRLDC website. The discrepancy report

also contains the details where replacement/rectification of energy meter is

required. Further NRLDC is taking up the matter regularly with the concerned

and also in Commercial Sub-Committee Meetings and TCC/NRPC meeting. It

was observed that some of the meters are not yet replaced/rectified even after

a gap of one year.

30.2 The list of defective meters as per latest account is enclosed as Annexure-

30.1.

30.3 Representative of POWERGRID confirmed that they will look into the matter

and replace/rectify the meters within a week’s time.

30.4 Representative of NRLDC informed members that Interface meter data of

various Substations under the jurisdictions of UT of J&K was not being

reported through AMR due to non-availability of internet connection since

August-19. At present NRLDC is relying on cross state meter data for energy

accounting of UT of J&K. Therefore, UT of J&K is requested to ensure

availability of Broad Band services at various substations for further integration

with AMR and availability of meter data.

30.5 Since J&K representative were not present, NRLDC requested POWERGRID

to please take up the matter with J&K and requested to facilitate the same.

Representative of POWERGRID agreed for the same.

30.6 Further, NRLDC informed that the Interface meter installed at Dipalpur line

and LV side of ICT-2 is recording 0 values on regular basis. NRLDC has

intimated about the above issue to Bawana-DTL on 23.04.20 for rectification.

Based on feedback , there may be voltage selection scheme issue.

30.7 Bawana-DTL was requested to address the above issue on priority.

30.8 Members of the sub-committee advised that the action for

replacement/rectification of meters to be done within 15 days as per CEA

Metering Regulation.

ITEM-31 Nomination of nodal officer (Agenda by NRLDC)

31.1 Representative of NRLDC stated that in Northern Region, there were around

320 locations including substations and generation stations. For metering

related issues; it is requested that all State utilities/generating stations to

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nominate 01 nodal officer with contact no. and email id. This issue was being

raised constantly in earlier Commercial Sub-Committee Meetings and it was

advised by the sub-committee to submit the name of nodal officer; however,

many of the stations have not intimated about its nodal officer except SJVN

BBMB, NHPC, NTPC, Rajasthan, Punjab, DTL, UPPTCL, Haryana and

Pragati Power.

31.2 He informed that NRLDC vide email dated 19.02.2019 and letter ref. no.

No/NRLDC/MO/Metering/3/343-364 dated 12.02.20 has requested remaining

constituent (UT of J&K, PTCUL, H.P. etc) to kindly nominate one nodal officer

for coordination for all metering related issues.

31.3 Members of the sub-committee advised to submit the details of nodal officer.

ITEM-32 Long pending outstanding dues on account of wheeling charges

payable by Delhi DISCOMs, J&K Government (Power Development

Department- PDD) and Haryana to BBMB (Additional Agenda by BBMB)

32.1 Representative of BBMB stated that the payment on account of wheeling

charges for utilization of BBMB transmission system for transmission of Baira

Siul power and Central Sector power to Delhi, J&K and Haryana is pending

since long. The matter regarding outstanding dues payable to BBMB on

account of wheeling charges was also discussed as an agenda in the 17th &

20th & 25th Commercial Sub Committee meetings of NRPC held on

14.12.2010, 24.08.2011 & 24.12.2013 respectively, wherein it was expressed

by Member Secretary, NRPC that decisions of NREB/NRPC needed to be

honoured by the constituents. After deliberations, it was decided to sort out the

issue mutually. Matter has been vigorously pursued by BBMB at all levels but

no response is being received.

I. Delhi DISCOMs: Wheeling Charges for use of BBMB transmission

system for transmission of Central Sector Power through Samaypur link & supply of Baira Siul Power

i) BBMB had been claiming wheeling charges from Delhi in respect of

following:

a) For facilitating Baira Siul power through its transmission system as

per Minutes of the 58th meeting of NREB held on 25.2.82 & 81st

NREB meeting held on 10.11.1989, w.e.f May-80 (Annexure-32.1).

b) For the utilization of Inter-connecting facilities at 220 KV Samaypur

Sub station of BBMB for the transmission of Central Sector Power

through 220 KV Samaypur-Ballabgarh-BTPS Ckts. as per the

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decision of the 87th meeting of NREB held on 19.4.1991, w.e.f

November-1987 (Annexure-32.2)

ii) These bills were raised as per the Rate/Quantum of energy mentioned in

the monthly REAs of NREB/NRPC issued from time to time.

iii) Earlier, these bills were raised on DESU/DVB/DTL from time to time and

payment on this account was made by these entities.

iv) After the re-assignment of all PPAs to Delhi Distribution Companies, DTL

had stopped making payment w.e.f 1.4.2007 and informed that these

bills may be raised to Delhi DISCOMs (BYPL, BRPL & NDPL).

v) Accordingly, BBMB started raising wheeling charges bills on Delhi

DISCOMs. However, no payment was forthcoming.

vi) Matter is vigorously pursued by BBMB with the Delhi DISCOMs for

release of pending payment pertaining to wheeling charges.

vii) The matter was also discussed as an Agenda Item in the 25th

Commercial sub-committee meeting of NRPC held on 24.12.2013

wherein, it was decided that both BBMB and Delhi DISCOMs would sort

out the issue mutually.

viii) In compliance to above, matter has been taken up with Delhi DISCOMs

to convene a meeting to sort out long pending issue, but no response is

forthcoming.

As on date outstanding dues on account of wheeling of Central Sector

Power and Bairasiul power (upto 8/2013 bills) against Delhi DISCOMs are as

under:

S.No. Delhi DISCOM WC on account of

Central Sector

Power through

Samaypur Link

WC on account of

Bairasiul Power

Total

1. Tata Power Delhi Distribution Ltd. (NDPL)

Rs 6.04 Lakh Rs 49.82 Lakh Rs.55.86 Lakh

2. M/s BSES Rajdhani Power Ltd., (BRPL)

Rs. 5.40 Lakh Rs 54.48 Lakh Rs.59.88 Lakh

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3. M/s BSES Yamuna Power Ltd.,(BYPL)

Rs. 0.97 Lakh Rs 7.98 Lakh Rs. 8.95 Lakh

II. Jammu & Kashmir (PDD) - Wheeling Charges on account of Central

Sector Power (NTPC/ Western Grid etc.) routed through BBMB transmission system (including Samaypur link)

J&K is drawing Central Sector Power though BBMB transmission system.

Accordingly, as per the decision taken in 87th meeting of Northern Region

Electricity Board held on 19.4.1991 (Refer Annexure-32.2) wheeling

charges bills @ 1.5 P/kWh, were being raised on monthly basis as per the

REA issued by NREB/NRPC from time to time. However, despite lot of

persuasion telephonically, protracted correspondence & supply of

complete reconciled details of bills to concerned office i.e Chief

Engineer/Commercial and Survey Wing, Jammu of J&K Govt. by BBMB,

J&K is not making payment onwards on this account. As on date

outstanding dues on account of wheeling of Central Sector Power over

BBMB transmission system against J&K are around Rs.11.12 crore (upto

08/2013 bills).

III. Haryana - Wheeling Charges for use of BBMB transmission system for supply of Baira Siul Power to Haryana

Haryana was drawing its allocated share of power from Baira Siul Hydro

Electric Project (HEP) of NHPC through BBMB transmission network.

Accordingly, BBMB had been raising wheeling charges bills for use of its

transmission system for supply of Baira Siul Power to Haryana as per the

decision taken in 58th meeting of NREB held on 25.02.82 (Refer

Annexure-32.1) & and Power Sub-committee meeting of BBMB dated

21.12.83 (Annexure-32.3) .

That upto February, 1995, these wheeling charges bills were raised on

NHPC, NHPC in turn collected the payment from its beneficiaries

(including Haryana) and reimbursed to BBMB. This procedure was

continued up to Feb, 1995 and from March, 1995 onwards, when NHPC

lines were transferred to Powergrid, it had started raising these bills and

reimbursed the payments to BBMB as per the agreement between BBMB

and Powergrid. After the termination of MOU between BBMB and

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Powergrid, from July 2000 onwards, BBMB had started raising these bills

directly on beneficiaries of Bairasiul including Haryana.

It may be brought out that Haryana had made these payments upto June,

2000. However, since July, 2000 no payment on this account is

forthcoming despite regular pursuance by BBMB. Non receipt of

payments has resulted in accumulation of arrears to the tune of about Rs.

3.17 Crore up to 8/2013 bills

It is pertinent to mention here that these bills were raised strictly as per

the monthly Regional Energy Accounts (REAs) issued by NREB/NRPC

from time to time & its various decisions and therefore, need to be

honoured by the beneficiaries viz. Delhi DISCOMs, Haryana & J & K. A

copy of the notes on account of Wheeling charges appended with monthly

REAs of NRPC is enclosed at Annexure-32.4 for reference.

It may be brought out that after the implementation of CERC Sharing

Regulations 2010, as per the decision taken in 26th TCC & 29th NRPC

meetings held on 12/13.09.2013, the concept of levying wheeling charges

have been discontinued w.e.f. September, 2013 and BBMB has stopped

raising these bills thereafter.

32.2 Representative of TPDDL requested to BBMB to provide all the supporting

documents in this regard.

32.3 Representative of BBMB agreed to provide all supporting documents.

32.4 Since the representative of J&K was not present in the meeting, Member

Secretary, NRPC requested to take up the matter in special meeting with J&K

as decided in above agenda points.

32.5 Representative of Haryana assured to consider the issues raised by BBMB.

ITEM-33 Certification of Open Cycle generation for Gas stations under RRAS

(Table Agenda by NTPC)

33.1 Representative of NTPC stated that the issue regarding open cycle

certification of Gas stations under RRAS was deliberated during 39th CSC

(held on 21.05.2019) & 40th CSC meetings (held on 12.09.2019). The forum

has decided in the 40th CSC meeting that NRPC Sectt would be certifying

open cycle generation during RRAS as well as normal operation (when

schedule is provided by beneficiaries) on monthly basis and NTPC can settle

their claims of open cycle generation during RRAS from the pool in a similar

manner like the settlement is being done with beneficiaries.

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33.2 He informed that NRPC vide its letter dtd 16.11.2018 had issued certification

of Open Cycle generation for NTPC upto May’18, wherein open cycle

generation during RRAS operation was not considered. Revision of such

certification may be done by considering the open cycle generation during

RRAS operation. Further, certification of Open Cycle generation is also

pending for the period from June’18 onwards. NTPC has already submitted

the required data to NRPC for certification of open cycle.

33.3 He stated that delay in open cycle certification is causing delay in raising the

bills to beneficiaries and claiming the differential amount from DSM pool (for

RRAS portion). It is therefore requested that NRPC may issue the certification

at the earliest for the period from June’18 onwards and revised RRAS

accounts for the concerned period as indicated above.

33.4 SE(C), NRPC stated that as far as Open Cycle Certification upto May’18 is

concerned, the same was issued with segregation for RRAS operation under

open cycle. Certificate upto May’18 is attached as Annexure-33.1.

33.5 He further stated that open cycle data for the period June’18 to Dec’18 was

sent to NRLDC for vetting of the outage data, reply from NRLDC was received

on 18.05.2020. Open Cycle Certificate upto Dec’18 would be issued shortly in

similar line with Certificate upto May’18.

33.6 He informed that Open Cycle data beyond Dec’18 had not been received by

NRPC. In this regard, a letter was written to GM(C), NTPC on 20-03-2020.

The same is attached as Annexure-33.2.

33.7 SE(C), NRPC quoted the decision of 40th CSC meeting held on 12.09.2019

“… He stated that NRPC Sectt would be certifying open cycle generation

during RRAS as well as normal operation (when schedule is provided by

beneficiaries) on a monthly basis and NTPC can settle their claims of open

cycle generation during RRAS from the pool in a similar manner like the

settlement is being done with beneficiaries.”

33.8 He stated that in view of above NTPC could settle their RRAS open cycle

claim from RRAS pool.

33.9 Representative of NRLDC stated that since it is disbursement from pool

account hence it is required to have revised RRAS account.

33.10 Representative of NTPC stated that WRPC has been incorporating open cycle

generation in their RRAS account.

33.11 SE(C), NRPC highlighted that one of the criteria for giving RRAS schedule, is

merit order dispatch and after telephonic discussion with NLDC, it was evolved

that only close cycle rate of Gas Station, which is quite less, is being taken into

consideration, for this purpose.

33.12 Representative of NRLDC stated that because of Ramping Capabilities of Gas

Stations and sudden requirement in RRAS, gas stations were given RRAS

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schedule, in this other aspects such as technical minimum schedule were also

considered.

33.13 SE(C), NRPC stated that NRPC would discuss the matter of revision of RRAS

accounts in detail with WRPC and appropriate action would be taken

accordingly.

DATE AND TIME OF THE NEXT MEETING

The date and venue of next (43rd) meeting of the Commercial Sub-committee would

be intimated later.

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Annexure-I

List of Participants of 42nd CSC Meeting held on 20.04.2020 via Video Conferencing

S.No. Name of Officer (S/Shri/Smt.) Designation Organisation E-mail

1 BBMB

Sanjay Sidana AD/ Commercial BBMB [email protected]

Pooja Gupta Deputy Director BBMB [email protected]

2 DELHI

Rajneesh Kumar Srivastava IPGCL/PPCL [email protected]

R.K. Yadav IPGCL/PPCL [email protected]

3 Haryana

Gaurav Gupta [email protected]

4 HIMACHAL PRADESH

Sunil Grover MD HP-SLDC [email protected]

S.K. Sharma Sr.Xen HPSEBL [email protected]

5 RAJASTHAN

Kamal Singh SE, MPTS RVPN [email protected]

6 NHPC

Kanti Soni SM(M) NHPC(T) [email protected]

Virendra Kumar SM(Comml) NHPC [email protected]

7 NTPC

SP kesarwani DGM Comml NTPC [email protected]

E.P. Rao NTPC [email protected]

V.K. Jain AGM(Comml) MUNPL [email protected]

8 SJVN

Ashok Kumar AGM(Comml) SJVN ltd. [email protected]

9 THDCIL

R K Verma DGM(Comml) THDC India Ltd. [email protected]

10 NRLDC

P. Thendral Dy.Mgr POSOCO [email protected]

Anisha Chopra Manager POSOCO [email protected]

Prashant Garg NRLDC,POSOCO [email protected]

Manoj Kumar Aggarwal GM NRLDC,POSOCO [email protected]

MM Hasan GM NRLDC,POSOCO [email protected]

S.P. Singh [email protected]

Arun Kumar AM NRLDC,POSOCO [email protected]

Ashutosh Pandey AM NRLDC,POSOCO [email protected]

Kavita Parihar POSOCO [email protected]

P. Karthik AM POSOCO [email protected]

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Satish Kumar AET NRLDC,POSOCO [email protected]

Sachin Panwar AET POSOCO [email protected]

11 POWERGRID

Ajay Upadhyay POWERGRID [email protected]

Vishal Sagar POWERGRID [email protected]

12 APCPL

Amit Hooda Manager APCPL [email protected]

13 Private Discom

Sandeep Kumar TPDDL [email protected]

yogesh.prakash TPDDL [email protected]

Kartikey Tripathi Asst. Manager TPDDL [email protected]

Sujata Guruji Sr. Manager [email protected]

Sanjay Srivastav BRPL [email protected]

Sunil Kakkar BSES [email protected]

Anand Gera BRPL [email protected]

14 Prayagraj Power GCL

Sanjay Bhargava PPGCL, Bara [email protected]

15 NRPC

Sh. Naresh Bhandari MS NRPC [email protected]

Shri R P Pradhan SE NRPC [email protected]

Sh. Srikanth Reddy EE NRPC [email protected]

Sh. Manish Maurya AEE NRPC [email protected]

Sh. Shrey Kumar AEE NRPC [email protected]

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Annexure-3.1

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List of Defective/Faulty SEM meters in Northern Region

S.No S.N. meter Type Feeder name Issue Date of intimation to CTU

1 NP-8828-A M 220kV Panipat(BBMB)-I at Chajpur-HVPN faulty 09.04.19

2 NP-8264-A M 220kV Panipat(BBMB)-II at Chajpur-HVPN

AMR troubleshooting and DCD not available

09.04.19

3 NP-1603-A M 33 kV Shanan at Paddhar-HPSEB --do- 28.10.19

4 NP-1793-A M 132kV Pilibhit at Khatima-UPCL --do- 28.10.19

5 NP-8270-A S 400kV Mainpuri(PG)-1 at Mainpuri-UPPCL --do- 28.10.19

6 NP-8272-A S 400kV Mainpuri(PG)-2 at Mainpuri-UPPCL --do- 28.10.19

7 NP-1603-A M 33 kV Shanan at Paddhar-HPSEB --do- 28.10.19

8 New Meter 220 KV Alugten at Drass/Kargil new meter installation

14.12.19

9 New Meter 220 KV side of ICT-1 & ICT-2 at Jallandhar-PG new meter installation for Busmatch check

11.12.19

10 NP-8599-A C 220kV Pong at Bairasiul HPS faulty 15.01.20

11 NP-1577-A C 220kV Jessore at Bairasiul HPS faulty 15.01.20

12 NP-1407-A M 220 kV Kunihar at Pinjore-HVPN faulty 14.02.20

13 NP-8002-A S 400kV UPPCL Bareily-1 at PG Bareily read abrupt 02.03.20

14 NP-8003-A S 400kV UPPCL Lucknow at PG Bareily read abrupt 30.03.20

15 NP-1636-A S 220 kV Jessore at Pong HPS faulty 04.05.20

16 NR-3863-A C 400kV Fatehpur-PG(Kanpur) at Singrauli STPS faulty 05.05.20

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17 NR-4493-A M 33KV Singrauli STPS at Singrauli Hydro npc coversion issue

05.05.20

18 NP-1413-A M 220/132kV T/F-1(220 kV) at Panipat-BBMB Problem in display

14.05.20

19 NP-1415-A M 220/33kV T/F-1 (220 kV) at Panipat-BBMB Problem in display

14.05.20

20 NP-1900-A S ICT-2 (400 kV) at Panipat-BBMB Time Drift issue 14.05.20

21 NP-6668-A M 132kV Rajghat at Lalitpur-UPPCL faulty 16.05.20

22 NP-8573-A S 220/66kV ICT-1(66kV) at Sangrur-BBMB faulty 18.05.20

23 NP-3100-A C GT-4(220 kV) at Pong HPS Time Drift issue 19.05.20

24 NP-1609-A M 220 kV Kangu at Dehar HPS faulty 19.05.20

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