Ok. Vijayanand, Special Chief Secretary (Energy) and AP-Transco CMD. File
| Photo Credit: C.V. Subrahmanyam
The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has permitted the Andra Pradesh Transmission Corporation (AP-Transco) to assert a further ₹114 crore from the ability utilities of different States for utilizing its Inter-State Transmission (IST) strains, by way of an order issued by it in a petition quantity 10/TT/2019 on June 21, in keeping with a press launch by Ok. Vijayanand, Special Chief Secretary (Energy) and AP-Transco CMD.
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He stated on June 24 that the AP-Transco had filed the above petition earlier than CERC for the willpower of yearly costs for 40 IST strains located in Andhra Pradesh and the neighbouring States for the interval 2014-15 to 2018-19 as per the CERC laws pertaining to sharing of costs and losses of IST strains.
Initially, the CERC issued a tariff order for FYs 2016-17, 2017-18 and 2018-19 solely and refused to find out the tariff for FY 2014-16. The AP-Transco had then approached the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity (APTEL) in New Delhi in search of instructions to the CERC to think about the willpower of transmission costs for FY 2014-16 additionally.
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In pursuance of the APTEL order, the CERC promulgated the stated order dated June 21, permitting AP-Transco to declare ₹114 crores from numerous inter-State utilities for letting the ability circulation to the respective States by way of its [AP-Transco]‘s IST community. Mr. Vijayanand appreciated the efforts of AP-Transco Joint Managing Director Ok.V.N Chakradhar Babu and his staff for having the transmission costs sanctioned by CERC.
