Open Access in Gujarat

Venu Birappa
Gujarat Energy Transmission Corporation Limited
27
th
May 2013
Flow of Presentation
GETCO at a glance
Open Access in Gujarat
Short Term, Medium term and Long term Open Access
Merchant plant, Captive generation, Third party sale
Technical requirement
Redundancy, Reactive power, Future load growth
Open Access to Wind and solar power
Impact of Open Access
Major Impediments
No Network as such in planned for
Short term/ Medium term Open Access.
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Current status
Installed Capacity including Central Sector Share (as on 30.04.2013):
Sr.
No.
Sector
Installed
Capacity in
MW
1 State Sector 4996
2 Private Sector 7400
3 Central Sector 5571
Total 17967*
* Excluding renewable capacity 4003 MW
Sr. No. Particulars
Substations
(Nos.)
Transmission Lines
(CKM)
Transformation
Capacity (MVA)
1 400 KV 11 3602 8355
2 220 KV 83 15774 20770
3 132 KV 50 4938 6323
4 66 KV 1206 23658 26230
Total 1350 47972 61678
Transmission Network Development (as on 31.03.2013)
Installed Capacity in MW
41%
28%
31%
State Sector
Private Sector
Central Sector



Open Access in Gujarat
GERC notified Open Access Regulation in 2005

State of Gujarat has implemented intra-state ABT
w.e.f. 05.04.2010 which is pre-requisite for
implementation of open access

Subsequently, GERC Open Access Regulation 2011
notified as per model Regulation of Forum of
Regulators

State providing adequate infrastructure support to
open access consumers in the state
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Open Access Rules : GERC
Long-term customer:
Full Transmission charges shall be determined as per the Terms & Conditions of
tariff notified by appropriate Commission from time to time.
Rs.2970/MW/day for the year 2013-14
Period --exceeding12 year but not exceeding 25 years
Exit option for customer available by paying compensation

Medium Term Customer
Full Transmission Charges
Allowed on available margins
Rs.2970/MW/day for the year 2013-14
Period exceeding 3months but not exceeding 3 years
Exit option available by paying compensation.
Priority over Short Term Open Access

Short Term Customer
Intra-state
ST-Rate = 0.25 x [TSC / AV-cap]/365
Rs.742.5 /MW/day for the year 2013-14
Period ----less than 3 months and not exceeding 6 months in a year
Transmission Charges:
Connectivity and Open Access relationship
Connectivity should always be simultaneously applied with either Medium
Term Open Access or Long Term Open Access
Open Access users may take undue advantage of taking connectivity and
then trading in short term
Many Generators demand connectivity as merchant plants and then trade
power under short term open access as per the availability in market.
Captive power plants also seek connectivity and trade the surplus power.
Captive user and Merchant power plants find consumers within Gujarat for
trading power as third party sale
Eventually disparity among Open Access users, mainly DISCOMs who pay
for the existing network
Consumers grievance due to such disparity
Power not availed by such open access consumers within contract
demand is being backed down/sold at lower price in market for which fixed
cost is payable by DISCOMs
Open Access granted in Gujarat
Sr.
No
Year
Short Term Open Access
Medium
Term Open
Access
Long Term
Open Access
Numbers of
STOA
Application
approved
Total
STOA
User
Capacity
Approved
Sale
(MW)*
Capacity
Approved
Purchase
(MW)*

Nos. MW Nos. MW
1 2009-10 603 25 2404 -- - - 16 9547
2 2010-11 541 27 2738 -- - - 16 12745
3 2011-12 1070 49 3189 1355 6 279 15

13482
4 2012-13 4635 232 3255 3271 10 354 18 18033
*Average MW capacity approved during each month (approximately)
Captive Capacity catered by grid--------2957 MW
Details of Open Access Consumers in Gujarat
Details DGVCL UGVCL PGVCL MGVCL
TPL
AEC TOTAL

No. of OA Consumers
(as on Mar-12) 12 11 19 7 -- 49
Power purchased under
OA in Mus (FY 2011-12) 946 154 280 111 --- 1491
No. of OA Consumers
(as on Mar-13) 68 50 68 32 14 232
Power purchased under
OA in Mus (FY 2012-13-
upto 31.3.13) 2948 456 661 350 12 4427
Presently, 232 OA consumers have been purchasing power under short term open
access from Power Exchanges/ Short term Market in the State

States tied up capacity to supply their consumers on long term basis to meet the
existing as well as future demand is remaining unutilized/ stranded

Cost of power purchased from DISCOM
W/o demand charge
Charges Rs/unit
Demand Charges -
Energy charges 4.30
Fuel Surcharge 1.18
Time of Usage charges (75 paisa/ unit) 0.25
Total 5.73
15% Electricity duty is applicable but same is also applicable for
purchase under open access

Power purchase by Open access user in range of Rs. 3.75-5.43/unit
as against the supply of power by DISCOM at the rate of Rs. 5.73/unit
Technical Requirement
Reactive Power compensation
Sr.
No.
Voltage Class
Shunt Capacitor
(in MVAR)
Reactor (in MVAR)
Bus Line
1 400KV 0 705 313
2 220KV 0 100 0
3 132KV 216 0 0
4 66/33KV 1328 0 0
5 22KV 73 0 0
6 11KV 3121 0 0
Total 4738 805 313
180 MVAR Shunt Capacitor will be installed upto March-2014
1885 MVAR of 400KV class Bus Reactors (7X125 + 12X80 + 1X50) will be
installed
628MVAR of 400KV class Line Reactors (3X50 + 6X63) will be installed.
(Up to March-2013)
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Redundancy of Transmission Network
Technical Requirement

Unable to handle contingency during peak load condition
Critical line loading during peak load condition
Single source substations
Non availability of parallel corridors.
Transfer of Power
(Existing)
Expected load growth Transfer of Power
(2012-13)
PGVCL
8770 MW (G)
4152 MW (D)
UGVCL
870 MW (G)
2918 MW (D)
MGVCL
2240 MW (G)
1423 MW (D)
DGVCL
6485 MW (G)
2146 MW (D)
DISCOM
(G)-Generation
(D)-Demand
TPAEC
500 MW (G)
1315 MW (D)
TPSEC
1148 MW (G)
600 MW (D)
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Open Access to Renewable Energy
Variability: generation changes according to the availability of wind
velocity/sunlight resulting in swings of the plant output
Uncertainty : magnitude and time of the generation output is unpredictable &
unreliable and need ramping requirements
Low Plant Load Factor (PLF) to the tune of 20-22%
Limited control on generation
Not having proximity to the load centre.
The over voltage problem may be observed during period of low wind / solar
generation and off-peak load condition due to integration of large scale
renewable energy projects.
Due to the large oscillations in the wind / solar generation, the electrical grid is
affected in its voltage control and transient stability.
Adequate reserve capacity of gas / hydro generation is essential to meet the
system demand, when there is a sudden and substantial drop in wind / solar
generation.
Investment for integration of Wind power
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400 KV
Halvad
400 KV
Varsana
220 KV
Nakhatrana
220 KV
Radhanpur
400 KV
Chorania
220 KV
Tankara
220 KV
Bhatia
220 KV
Kangasiyali
220 KV
Jasddan
Proposed 400/220 KV S/S
Proposed 220/132 KV OR
220/66 KV S/S
Proposed 400 KV D/C line
Proposed 220 KV D/C line
Proposed 132 KV D/C line
Geographical locations for Wind Power Projects
Euro Solar, Bhachau5MW
Back Bone Enterprise 5 MW
Konark Gujarat 5 MW
ICML 9 MW
Zeba Solar 10 MW
India Solar Ray 10MW
Ambit Advisory 5MW
Taxus infrastructure-5MW
Lanco, Bhadrada-5MW
Lanco, Chandiyala 15 MW
PLG Power, Sami-20MW
Astonfield Solar 11.5 MW
PLG Photovoltaic-20MW
JaiHindi 5 MW
Solitaire, Mitha-15.20 MW
Precious, Akhaj-15 MW
Solar Semi Conductor20 MW
Cargo Motors, Rapar 25 MW
S J Green Park Energy 5MW
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Sunkon Energy -5 MW
Mono Steel 10MW
Responsive 25 MW
Ujjwala -25 MW
Chhatel (Ispat) -25 MW
Welspun Ltd 15 MW
Unity 5 MW
Azure Power, Dhama 5 MW
ESP Urja Ltd 5 MW
Millenium Synergy, Dasada 10 MW
Loroux Bio Energy 25 MW
EMCO 5 MW
WAA Solar 10 MW
Visual Percept 25MW
Environmental 10 MW
Tata Power Limited -25 MW
CBC solar -10 MW
Ganges Green 15 MW
Ganeshwani 5 MW
Green Infra -10 MW
Aravli Infra 5 MW
GHI Energy - 10 MW
MoserBear 15MW
APCA Power 5MW
Hiraco Renewable 20MW
Kemrock 10 MW
Adani Ltd 40MW
GMDC -5 MW
ACME 15 MW
Azure Haryana 10.20 MW
Aatash Power 5MW
Dreisatz MySolar-15MW
MySolar24 15MW
Tathith Energies- 5 MW
Sun Borne 15MW
Sand land-25MW
GIPCL 5 MW
JSW Energy, Deodar-5MW
Solar Semiconductor, Ajwada-20MW
Solitaire (MoserBear), Mudetha-15MW
Torrent Power, Savpura-25MW
NTPC, Morwada-50MW
Welspun Urja-40MW
Green colour Projects commissioned
Red colour - Projects to be commissioned
Charanka Solar Park

Projects Commissioned 221 MW
Project of Solar Generating Plants in Gujarat
Total Installed Capacity: 857MW
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Impact of Open Access


Per unit fixed cost works out to Rs. 2.07 & DISCOMs recovers
approx. Rs. 0.50/unit as fixed charge from HT consumers

Retail energy charges includes partial recovery towards fixed
charges

Open access consumers pays around 55 paisa/unit (39 paisa- cross
subsidy & 16 paisa wheeling & transmission

Power not availed by such open access consumers is being backed
down/sold at lower price in market for which fixed cost is payable
by DISCOMs

Reasons for Thrust in Open Access
Open access is crucial for
Mobilizing larger private investment in generation through
guaranteed access to credible buyers.
Enhancing competition amongst generators and suppliers to
have option for consumers.
Investment promotion objective is of higher priority in view of the
prevailing electricity shortages.

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Major impediment
Open Access users may take undue advantage of taking connectivity and
then trading in short term.Regulations of connectivity need to be
revisited

Eventually disparity among Open Access users, mainly DISCOMs who pay
for the existing network

Power not availed by such open access consumers within contract
demand is being backed down/sold at lower price in market for which fixed
cost is payable by DISCOMs

Renewable Open Access due to its unpredictable nature is creating
constraint for normal Open Access consumers during peak harvesting
period