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Anil Sasi

New Delhi , Feb. 17

THE Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) is likely to introduce part-day peaking charges for transmission of power, with slabs of 12-hours or even up to six-hours, instead of the full-day charges being levied currently.

This could make it cheaper for States such as Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh to source peaking power from outside, since they would have to pay higher transmission charges only for the duration of the day that they use the power, instead of coughing up peaking charges for the entire day.

As part of the amendments to the existing open access norms, to be announced shortly, the Central power regulator is also likely to rule in favour of having an advance reservation of transmission lines based on a monthly timetable, instead of the present practice of allocating lines for short-term access on a first-come-first-served basis to players.

Under the method being envisaged, applications would be accepted from players wanting short-term access to a transmission line (for the following month) up to the 19th of every month and the result would be declared on the 25th of each month.

In case a large number of players put in their applications for short-term access to a particular transmission line, the regulator is likely to go in for e-bidding route to decide on who gets to use the line.

The amendments are also likely to include an exit option for short-term access. The amendments also plan a review of the pricing mechanism for inter-regional links, under which system charges being paid by constituents of a grid for grid support would be minimised.

Based on the operational experience of the open access norms during the past one year, CERC has been working on the set of amendments to the open access norms that were notified in January 1, 2004.

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