The Madhya Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (MPERC) has turned down the state electricity distribution companies’ (discoms) petition to revise the rates at which they procure wind power.
“The power purchase agreement has no renewal/revision/review clause empowering the Commission to revise the tariff,” MPERC noted.
The MP Power management company — the holding entity of the state’s discoms — wanted the regulator to review its order passed in March 2013, which had set a 25-year levelised tariff of `5.92 per unit for power procured from wind energy projects commissioned thereafter. The discoms also sought the right to refuse the additional power supplied by the wind power plants, when they run at more than the prescribed normative capacity utilisation levels. The state-owned utility pointed out that the normative capacity utilisation factor was increased to 23% in a 2016 tariff order, from 20% in the 2013 diktat. The levelised tariff for wind power was set as `4.78 per unit in 2016.
