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| SERC Advisory Committee protests against existing power Scenario | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, July 1: Advisory Committee of State Electricity Regulatory Commission (SERC) protested against the existing power Scenario. They lodged this protest during the meeting of the Advisory Committee of State Electricity Regulatory Commission (SERC). The meeting had been called to listen to the views of the members on certain important drafted regulations that SERC has framed for power suppliers and the Utility for regulating tariff both for transmission as well as fuel to be used in power generation for ultimate power supply to the users. These regulations include Multi- year Distribution Tariff Regulation, Licensing Regulation, Distribution Code Regulation, terms and conditions for determination of transmission Tariff Regulation, Compliance Audit Regulation, Fuel Price Adjustment Formula Regulation and Terms and Conditions for Tariff determination from Renewable Energy Sources Regulation. The participants in the Advisory Committee were leaders of Industrial Sector, CCI (Jammu and Kashmir), Traders, Consumer Organizations, experts, Director CAPD and representatives of PDD and JKPDC. Although from the government side heads of the PDD and JKPDC were supposed to participate they preferred to send their junior officer to participate which was highly objected by all other non-Official members of the Advisory Committee. Members wanted the government heads to be present to listen to the public viewpoint and then take the decisions at the government level to improve the performance of the' Utility' e.g. the government. Before discussion on the regulations could start, unofficial members of the Advisory Committee felt that SERC should first discuss the present power scenario prevailing in Jammu because of the extremely unpredictable power supply with innumerable power-cuts, power curtailments and power break downs. This power situation in extremely unbearable hot weather has not only effected the industrial production, commercial activity and water supply but has made life of the public and thousands of pilgrims miserable. The Chairman, though reluctantly agreed to listen to the views of the members yet he insisted that the meeting was exclusively called for discussing the Regulations. The members pointed out that before announcing 'Voluntary Connected Load Disclosure scheme (VCLDS) the PDD had already started inspecting the consumers and imposing very heavy penalties on the consumers whose connected Loads were more than the sanctioned loads. The defaulters were simply served with the 'Penalty Bill' with even informing as to how the fine imposed was calculated and under which rule or clause of the supply code it was assessed.PDD did not furnish the information even on request. VCLDS announced by the PDD is anomalous and needs more detailed clarification. PDD needs to make the public aware of the fact that VCLDS will not affect the monthly bill of power consumption of the consumers but would only help the PDD to update the system for the benefit of the consumers.
PDD has not used any Diversity Factor (DF) on the connected Load to arrive at the Contracted Load by the consumer as all the connected load is not used at any one point of time. Different states of the country use different DF according to their power consumption pattern. Our neighboring state Punjab uses DF of 3 for the total connected load. In our case the SERC has fixed 1.6 as the maximum DF to arrive at the Contracted Load and this has been ignored by the PDD in their Public Notice.The members, therefore, requested that PDD should extend the time limit for VCLDS informing public of the advantages of VCLDS and the DF applicable for the Contracted Load. The discussion on the regulations be postponed to a later date. The Chairman SERC agreed to the demand of the members. |
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