Customized Energy Solutions 1 APRIL, 2012 Issue 11 Power Ministry for amendments to Electricity Act, 2003 In a bid to remove anomalies in the implementation of Electricity Act, 2003 Power Ministry has proposed large number of amendments. It has been proposed to amend the Section 11 in order to curb the alleged misuse by State Government. Section 11 have been used quite often by States like Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu to prohibit the sale of surplus power from generating units to entities ou tside a state. Under Section 11 of Electricity Act “an appropriate government may specify that a generating company shall, in extraordinary circumstances, operate and maintain any generating station in accordance with the direction of that government”. However, the actual interpretation by Power Ministry is, “For Section 11, ‘extraordinary circumstances’ mean those arising out of threat to the security of a state, a public order or a natural calamity, or other circumstances arising in public interest, except f or the implementation of open access, as envisaged in the Act.” The ministry’s proposal is also supported by the Forum of Regulators, an apex body of power regulators. The forum said, “The Act may be amended to provide greater clarity on the meaning of the ‘extraordinary circumstances’ mentioned in Section 11.” Inside This Issue No Wheeling Charges on Solar Generation in Karnataka for FY13 2 Karnataka Issues Tariff Order for fY13 2 Residential Sector Lightning Program in the State of Keral under BLY PoA 3 SecureNet-RT Combined with SCATA-R T 4 Review of REC Trading – March 2012 5 Possibilities for next trade session 6 Monthly Analysis of OTC contracts for the month of April 2012 7 Useful Data – India 8 & 9 Customized Energy Solutions is committed to working with each of our clients to analyze theirneeds, simplify the solutions, andimplement an informed, fiscallyresponsible plan to help them to navigate the complex energymarkets.
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7/31/2019 11 Customized India Newsletter April 2012 9 May 2012 - Issue 11
Power Ministry for amendments to Electricity Act, 2003
In a bid to remove anomalies in the implementation of Electricity Act, 2003 Power Ministry has proposed large
number of amendments. It has been proposed to amend the Section 11 in order to curb the alleged misuse by
State Government. Section 11 have been used quite often by States like Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu
to prohibit the sale of surplus power from generating units to entities outside a state.
Under Section 11 of Electricity Act “an appropriate government may specify that a generating company shall, in
extraordinary circumstances, operate and maintain any generating station in accordance with the direction of that
government”.
However, the actual interpretation by Power Ministry is, “For Section 11, ‘extraordinary circumstances’ mean
those arising out of threat to the security of a state, a public order or a natural calamity, or other circumstances
arising in public interest, except for the implementation of open access, as envisaged in the Act.”
The ministry’s proposal is also supported by the Forum of Regulators, an apex body of power regulators. The
forum said, “The Act may be amended to provide greater clarity on the meaning of the ‘extraordinary
circumstances’ mentioned in Section 11.”
Inside This IssueNo Wheeling Charges on Solar Generation in Karnataka for FY13 2Karnataka Issues Tariff Order for fY13 2Residential Sector Lightning Program in the State of Keral under BLY PoA 3SecureNet-RT Combined with SCATA-RT 4Review of REC Trading – March 2012 5Possibilities for next trade session 6Monthly Analysis of OTC contracts for the month of April 2012 7Useful Data – India 8 & 9
Customized Energy Solutions iscommitted to working with each
of our clients to analyze their
needs, simplify the solutions, and
implement an informed, fiscally
responsible plan to help them to
navigate the complex energy
markets.
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Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) was constituted on March 31, 1957 by the Government of Kerala
under the Electricity (Supply Act), 1948. KSEB is in the business of Generation, Transmission and
Distribution of electricity in the State of Kerala. In 2008-09, KSEB had a consumer base of 93,63,461
out of which domestic category accounted for 79.9%, whereas commercial and agricultural consumersaccounted for 14% and 5% respectively. Other Licensees and Railway Traction accounted less than 1.5%
of total consumer base. In terms of energy consumption, domestic category accounted for 48% followed
by Industrial and Commercial categories of nearly 26% and 17% of total energy consumption
respectively. Energy requirement of the State has increased from 13628 MU in FY 2002-03 to 17645
MU in FY 2008-09 due to fast economic growth of the State. Similarly, Peak demand has increased from
2803 MW to 3188 MW during the same period. The State suffered energy shortfall and peak demand
shortfall of around 11.89% and 13.77% in FY 2008-09 respectively. The State experienced the peak
demand during morning period of 0600 to 0730 hours and evening period of 1900 hours to 2230 hours.
The morning peak does not deviate significantly from the avg. load; however there is a substantial
difference in load during morning and evening peak. Considering the occurrence of peak load during
evening period and maximum consumer being the domestic users, KSEB decided to implement efficient
lighting DSM program targeting residential consumer category.
In order to improve the lighting energy efficiency in the residential sector at national level, BEE has
initiated Bachat Lamp Yojna (BLY) efficient lighting program targeting residential sector with in-builtCDM benefit and successfully registered as Bachat Lamp Yojna as a Clean Development Mechanism
Program of Activities (CDM PoA) with UNFCCC. In order to supplement National Level efforts of BEE
and Ministry of Power, KSEB decided to implement residential sector lighting DSM program under BLY
PoA and made Energy Management Centre, Kerala responsible for the implementation of the same.
EMC decided to replace 60 W Incandescent Bulbs with 14 W CFL. EMC also decided to distribute two
CFLs per households to all grid connected households located in three regions of the Kerala State. EMC
& KSEB selected Philips Electronics (I) limited for the supply of CFLs. KSEB had 7709691 residentialconsumers as on December 2009 in three regions of the Kerala State. Out of total residential consumers,
around 82% of the consumers participated and purchased two CFLs under this scheme. EMC and KSEB
successfully distributed around 12.614020 million CFLs to grid connected residential consumers in the
State of Kerala. Total twenty CPA DDs have been developed covering the three regions of the Kerala
State and included in BLY PoA at UNFCCC after validation by DoE. Implementation of this program
will result in net energy savings of around 2154554 MWH over a period of project life of around four
years. It will also help in emission reduction of around 1944993 tonnes of CO2e over a project life.
Residential Sector Li htin Pro ram in the State of Kerala under BLY PoA
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transmission, or can support communications to customer sites using private data networks. The menu of data
acquisition services is scalable and flexible to meet each individual customer requirements. SecureNet-RT can be used
for real-time energy and capacity telemetry to an ISO (United States) or SLDC (India), frequency and voltage regulation
in an Ancillary Service Market, or Synchronous Reserves and Usage data for Demand Response.
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• Remote Startup/Shutdown:
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• Voltage monitoring:
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• Real-Time Bidirectional Telemetry:
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• ISO/SLDC Private Network Alternative:
Low cost alternate to ISO/SLDC private network data connectivity. SecureNet-RT combined with SCADA-RT provides direct dataintegration with an ISO / SLDC, without burdening the customer. SecureNet-RT can be installed in a fraction of the time it takes toinstall a traditional ISO/SLDC data communications system.
• Remote Support and Monitoring:
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•
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• Market Pricing Information:
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• Voice communications:
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SecureNet-RT combined with SCADA-RT, provides secure, real-time integratedvoice and data communications around the corner or around the world.
On 25th April 2012, trading session of REC was conducted on both the Power Exchanges for the month of April. TotalVolume cleared in this trading session was 53% of the total volume available for Sale. RECs available for sale haddecreased by 43% as compared to previous trading session.
A total of 160,914 Non-Solar RECs were available for trading, however, actual participation was for 132,686 RECsonly. A total of 71,226 RECs were traded (53%) at an average price of Rs 2,201 per Non-Solar REC. Both the clearedprice and quantum have decreased vis-à-vis previous trading session. There were 514 Solar REC buy bids on the PowerExchanges.
Compared to previous month, numbers of participants were much less. Total number of participants in this month wasaround 187. Some of the important cues of this Trading Session are summarized below:
• Out of 160,914 RECs issued, 71,226 (82%) RECs participated in this trade session (IEX+PXIL).
•
Of 160,914 RECs that were available for sale (IEX+PXIL), 71,226 (44%) RECs got sold. Total buy bid forRECs was 263,913 (3.7 times).
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• Total No. of RE Generators who have been registered by NLDC are 493, with total aggregated capacity o2822.39 MW. Another 105 RE Generators are pending for registration with a total capacity of 397.46 MW.
• The Clearing price of RECs is expected to be on the lower side as there is no hurry from the Buyer side tfulfill the compliance.
• First Solar PV project of 6 MW in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu have been Registered.
Source: Recregistryindia / IEX / PXIL
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1. The reported short-term contract volume for the month of April was 3240.76 MUs whereas the same wa
1647.71 MUs for the month of March. There is a substantial increase of 97% in reported contract volume.
2. 8 % of total volume has been contracted at the price above Rs. 4/kWh.3. Total number of contracts (including swap & Banking) in April was 132 by 5 traders whereas in March it wa
110 by 3 traders.
Observation:
1. In the month of April, OTC contract prices were lower than the Indian Energy Exchange (IEX) and Powe
Exchange of India Ltd. spot prices.
2. The minimum price in the exchanges during 26th March 2012 – 29th April 2012 was Rs. 3.40 / kWh (IEX, 29t
Apr 2012) while that in the OTC market it was Rs. 2.96 / kWh (26th March – 22nd April). Maximum price in