The member States of Southern Region Power Committee (SRPC), headed by Transmission Corporation of Telangana Ltd Chairman and Managing Director D. Prabhakar Rao, have finalised the draft of agreements to be entered among themselves for instant transactions of surplus power, if available with them at a particular time of a day without the involvement of power exchange.
Officials of the power entities of Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Telangana discussed the draft for two days at Thiruvananthapuram and finalised it on Tuesday. The meeting, a follow-up of the one held in Hyderabad on July 31, also agreed upon formulating the guidelines for instant transactions of surplus power with the States having deficit at the given time.
Methodology
The new methodology of sharing surplus power among the member States was mooted at the last month’s meeting with a plan to cut down the losses of the power utilities (generating stations) due to back-down of generation during the intra-day falls in demand for energy.
At the same time, it would also be helpful to the States in need of additional power due to intra-day increase in the demand beyond the estimated level planned a day before and prevent outages to consumers.
Member-Secretary of the committee S.R Bhatt, Kerala State Electricity Board CMD K. Ellangovan, Tamil Nadu Transco MD S. Shanmugam, AP Transco CMD K. Vijayanand, Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation MD Jawaid Akhtar, SRLDC General Manager G. Anbunesan, Telangana SPDCL CMD G. Raghuma Reddy, Northern Power Distribution Company of Telangana Ltd CMD A. Gopal Rao and others attended the meeting.
Agreements among the members States would be signed once the guidelines were framed, circulated and agreed upon to enable instant transactions of surplus power, under which a State having surplus power during a particular day could sell it to another needy State within an hour by intimating the Southern Regional Load Dispatch Centre, an officials of the Telangana Transmission Corporation, who attended the meeting, said.
