The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has issued orders allowing the Kerala State Electricity Board Ltd. (KSEB) to grant a power transmission corridor to cart 400 MW from Chhattisgarh to the State.
The commission set aside an earlier order of Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL), the notified central transmission utility. PGCIL will now have to reconsider the applications made by KSEB on June 13, 2013 and issue orders within a week to grant the corridor for three years.
The corporation had also been asked to strictly follow the regulations and procedures approved by the commission from time to time in granting medium-term open access (MTOA) and long-term access (LTA). KSEB had challenged the denial of MTOA for which applications were put forth by NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam Limited (NVVNL) and PTC India Ltd.
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KESB had sought to make illegal the denial of access on the applications by NVVNL in June and November 2013 and PTC India in June and October.
While calculating the availability of corridor in June 2014, the CERC found that the central transmission utility had considered the available capacity as 211 MW. However, the auxiliary power consumption with reference to allocation by the Ministry of Power had not been taken into consideration while calculating the transmission margin.
The CERC directed PGCIL to consider the auxiliary power consumption for calculating the transmission margins. It found valid grounds to assess the application of NVVN made in June 2013 to be considered as eligible.
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KSEB to get power corridor for three years
Power utility had challenged denial of corridor