Tata Power’s enterprise plans challenged in Odisha Electricity Regulatory Commission

Express News Service
BHUBANESWAR: Ahead of listening to of Tata Power’s functions for approval of annual enterprise and capital expenditure plans for the 4 distribution corporations for 2021-22, the Odisha Electricity Regulatory Commission (OERC) has been requested to direct the petitioners to file the functions beneath OERC (Terms and Conditions for Determination of Wheeling Tariff and Retail Supply Tariff) Regulations, 2014.

Consumer activist Ananda Kumar Mohapatra has raised objections to the functions stating within the present type they don’t conform to the prescribed rules of OERC. He said that the OERC rules haven’t any provision for submitting annual marketing strategy because it needs to be long-term for five-year interval. Further, approval of an annual marketing strategy is of no use at this level of time when the Commission has already decided bulk and retail provide, and transmission tariff for the present fiscal, he argued.

He stated Regulation-4 speaks about multi-year tariff framework, submitting of marketing strategy and trajectory particular parameters for the aim of approval of mixture income requirement (ARR) and the anticipated income from tariff and costs of the licensees (discoms). Regulation-5 offers in particulars concerning the marketing strategy and the procedures of its submitting.

“The Capital Investment Plan (CIP) shall be prepared in accordance with the sales/demand forecast, power procurement plan, distribution loss trajectory, targets for quality supply etc. The CIP shall be consistent with the perspective plan developed by the State Transmission Utility (STU) based on the data submitted by the distribution licensees. The investment plan should also include yearly phasing of capital expenditure along with the financing plan and corresponding capitalisation schedule,” stated the regulation.

Despite all of the rules within the matter of marketing strategy, the licensees with some ulterior motives have tried to mislead the stakeholders. This can’t be taken for listening to until and till the above discrepancies and irregularities are rectified by the licensees. He urged the Commission to subject mandatory instructions to the petitioners for correction of the petitions and spell out the supply from which they’ve taken the annual marketing strategy.

Mohapatra additionally opposed the June 10 public discover issued by OERC which whereas inviting objections/options to the petitions of Tata Power, talked about concerning the submitting of enterprise plans by licensees – TPCODL, TPWODL, TPSODL and TPNODL – for the present fiscal. He urged the Commission to subject a corrigendum to its discover. The Commission has fastened June 29 because the date of listening to.

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