{"id":277178,"date":"2019-06-03T05:53:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T05:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=277178"},"modified":"2019-06-03T05:53:32","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T05:53:32","slug":"inter-state-transmission-gencos-find-poc-charges-onerous-seek-revision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/inter-state-transmission-gencos-find-poc-charges-onerous-seek-revision\/","title":{"rendered":"Inter-state transmission: Gencos find PoC charges onerous, seek revision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Private power producers want the electricity regulator to revise the tariff norms for using inter-state transmission systems (ISTS), as the current \u2018opaque\u2019 system is proving to be a big burden on them, discoms as well as end-consumers.<\/p>\n<p>These ISTS charges, also called PoC (point of connection) charges, have increased 52% since Q1FY17 to `2,888 crore per month in Q3FY19. Also, tariffs vary disproportionately among the states \u2013 for instance, the rate is as low as `0.21\/unit in Tamil Nadu while it is `0.80\/unit in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh.<br \/>\nIn a letter to the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC), the Association of Power Producers (APP) has said: \u201cThe prevalent method of PoC charges determination is an opaque process where the load flow studies are not provided to customers\/ stakeholders.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Private power producers want the electricity regulator to revise the tariff norms for using inter-state transmission systems (ISTS), as the current \u2018opaque\u2019 system is proving to be a big burden on them, discoms as well as end-consumers. These ISTS charges, also called PoC (point of connection) charges, have increased 52% since Q1FY17 to `2,888 crore per month in Q3FY19. Also, tariffs vary disproportionately among the states \u2013 for instance, the rate is as low as `0.21\/unit in Tamil Nadu while it is `0.80\/unit in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh. In a letter to the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC), the Association of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}