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AGREEMENT
This Agreement is made at Vadodara, this day ….. of month ………………… of the year
………………………………………….. for connectivity with 220/132/66 Kv …………………………….
Substation of GETCO.

BETWEEN
M/s. .............................. a Company Registered under the Companies Act 1956,
having its Registered Office at …………………………………………………… (hereinafter
called the Company), which expression includes its permissible assigns and
successors, a Party of the first part

AND

“GUJARAT ENERGY TRANSMISSION CORPORATION LIMITED”, a Government

Company registered under the Companies Act 1956 and functioning as the ”State
Transmission Utility” under the Electricity Act 2003 having its Head Office at Sardar
Patel Vidyut Bhavan, Race Course, Vadodara, 390007 (hereinafter referred to as

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GETCO which expression shall include its permitted assigns and successors) a Party
the Second Part.”
NOW THEREFORE IN CONSIDERATION OF THE PREMISES COVENANTS AND
CONDITIONS THE PARTIES HEREINTO HEREBY AGREE AS UNDER:

SCHEDULE –I
Standards for Connectivity to the Grid
General
1. Standards and Codes of Practice
(1) M/s .............................. shall follow the industry best practices and
applicable industry standards in respect of the equipment installation and its
operation and maintenance.
(2) The equipment including overhead lines and cables shall comply with the
relevant Indian Standards. British Standard (BS). Or International Electro
technical commission (IEC) Standard. Or American National Standards
Institute (ANSI) or any other equivalent International Standard:
(3) The effects of wind, storms, floods, lightening, elevation, temperature
extremes, icing, contamination, pollution and earthquakes must be
considered in the design and operation of the connected facilities.
(4) Installation, operation and maintenance of the equipment by M/s
.............................. at 220/132/66 Kv ……………………………..
substation of GETCO shall conform to the relevant standards specified by
the Authority under Section 177, and section 73 of the Act, as and when
they come into force.

2. Safety
M/s .............................. shall comply with the Indian Electricity Rules, 1956
till such time Central Electricity Authority (safety and Electric supply)
Regulations.

3. Sub-station Grounding
Each transmission sub-station must have a ground mat solidly connected to all
metallic structures and other non-energized metallic equipment. The mat shall
limit the ground potential gradients to such voltage and current levels that will
not endanger the safety of people or damage equipment which are in, or
immediately adjacent to, the station under normal and fault conditions. The
ground mat size and type shall be based on local soil conditions and available
electrical fault current magnitudes. In areas where ground mat voltage rises
would not be within acceptable and safe limits (for example due to high soil
resistively or limited sub-station space), grounding rods and ground wells may
be used to reduce the ground grid resistance to acceptable levels. Sub-station
space), grounding rods and ground wells may be used to reduce the ground
grid resistance to acceptable levels. Sub-station grounding shall be done in
accordance with the norms of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE).80.

4. Metering
Meters shall be provided at theinterconnection point with STU i.e 220/132//66
Kv ……………………………….of GETCO as specified in the Central Electricity
Authority (Installation and operation of Meters). Meters will be as per GTCO
specification and metering scheme. The meters will be procured/replaced
throughout the term of PPA at the cost of M/s………………………………………….

5. Basic Insulation Level and Insulation Co-ordination

(1) Basic Insulation Level (BIL) of various items of equipment and ratings of
surge arresters for generating stations, lines and sub-stations shall be decided
on the following order of priority, namely:-
(a) ensure safety to public ;and operating personnel;

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 (b) avoid permanent damage to plant;
(c) prevent failure of costly equipment;
(d) minimize circuit interruptions; and
(e) Minimize interruptions of power supply to consumers.
(2) Insulation co-ordination of equipment and lines on both sides of a
connection point belonging to the M/s .............................. and the grid shall
be accomplished and the co-ordination shall be done by the GETCO (State
Transmission Utility).

6. Protection system and Co-ordination

(1) Protection system shall be designed to reliably detect faults on various
abnormal conditions and provide an State means and location to isolate
the equipment or system automatically. The protection system must be
able to detect power system faults within the protection zone. The
protection system should also detect abnormal operating conditions such
as equipment failures or open phase conditions.
(2) Every element of the power system shall be protected by a standard
protection system having the required reliability, selectivity, speed,
discrimination and sensitivity. Where failure of protective relay in the M/s.
.............................. system has substantial impact on the grid, it shall
connect an additional protection as back up protection besides the main
protection.
(3) Notwithstanding the protection systems provided in the grid, M/s
.............................. and user shall provide requisite protections for
safeguarding his system from the faults originating in the grid.
(4) Bus bar protection and breaker fail protection or Local Breaker Back up
protection shall be provided wherever stipulated in the regulations.
(5) Special protection scheme such as under frequency relay for load
shedding. Voltage instability, angular instability, generation backing down
or Islanding schemes may also be required to be provided to avert system
disturbances.
(6) Protection co-ordination issues shall be finalized by the regional power
committee.
(7) M/s .............................. and user shall develop protection manuals
conforming to various standards for the reference and use of its personnel.

7. Disturbance Recording and Event Logging Facilities.

M/s .............................. and sub-station connected to the grid at 66/132 KV
………………………………….. S/S shall provide disturbance recording and event
logging facilities. All such equipment shall be provided with time
synchronization facility for global common time reference.

8. Schematic Diagrams
M/s .............................. shall prepare single line schematic diagrams in
respect of its system facility and make the same available to the GETCO
220/132/ 66 Kv …………………………….. substation (State Transmission
Utility) through which his system is connected and the State Load Dispatch
Centre.

9. Inspection, Test, Calibration and Maintenance prior to connection

Before connecting, the M/s .............................. shall complete all inspections
and tests finalized in consultation with the GETCO (State Transmission Utility)
132/66 Kv Jam-Khambhaliya substation to which his equipment’s are
connected. The M/s .............................. shall make available all drawings,
specifications and test records of the project GETCO (State Transmission
Utility) or generating station as the case may be.

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 SCHEDULE –II
Standards for Connectivity to the Grid
Grid connectivity Standards applicable to the Generating Units
The Wind/Solar/Thermal Power Project of ……. MW of M/s. .............................. proposed to
be connected to the GETCO grid at 400/220/66 Kv…………………..S/S shall comply with the
following requirements besides the general connectivity conditions given in the regulations and
general requirements given in Schedule-I:-

New Generating Units

(1) The excitation system for every generating unit:-
(a) shall have state of the art excitation system;
(b) shall have\Automatic Voltage Regulator (AVR). Generators of 100MW rating and
above shall have Automatic voltage Regulator with digital control and two
separate channels having independent inputs and automatic changeover; and
(c) The Automatic voltage regulator of generator of 100 MW and above shall include
power system stabilizer (PSS).
(2) The short-circuit ratio (SCR) for generators shall be as per IEC-34.
(3) The generator transformer windings shall have delta connection on low voltage side
and star connection on high voltage side. Star point of high voltage side shall be
effectively (solidly) earthed so as to achieve the Earth fault factor of 1.4 or less.
(4) All generating machines irrespective of capacity shall have electronically controlled
governing system with State speed/load characteristics to regulate frequency. The
governors of thermal generating units shall have a droop of 3 to 6%.
(5) The project of the M/s .............................. shall not cause voltage and current
harmonics on the grid which exceed the limits specified in Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) standard 519.
(6) Generating units located near load centre, shall be capable of operating at rated
output for power factor varying between 0.85 lagging (over-excited) to 0.95 leading
(under-excited) and Generating Units located far from load centers shall be capable
of operating at rated output for power factor varying between 0.9 lagging (over-
excited) to 0.95 leading (under-excited). The above performance shall also be
achieved with voltage variation of + 5% of nominal frequency variation of +3% and -
5% and combined voltage and frequency variation of + 5%. However, for gas
turbines, the above performance shall be achieved for voltage variation of + 5%.
(7) The coal and lignite based thermal generating units shall be capable of generating
up to 105% of Maximum continuous Rating ( subject to maximum load capability
under valve wide open condition ) for short duration to provide the frequency
response.
(8) Every generating unit shall have standard protections to project the units not only
from faults within the units and within the station but also from faults in
transmission lines. For generating units having rated capacity greater than 100 MW,
two independent sets of protections acting on two independent sets of trip coils fed
from independent Direct Current (DC) supplies shall be provided. The protections
shall include but not be limited to the local Breaker Back-up (LBB) protection.
(9) Bus bar protection shall be provided at the switchyard of all generating station.
(10) The station auxiliary power requirement, including voltage and reactive
requirements, shall not impose operating restrictions on the grid beyond those
specified in the Grid code or state Grid code as the case may be.
All the terms and conditions mentioned in the Notification issued by Central Electricity
Authority No.12/X/STD/(CONN)/GM/CEA/dt.21st Feb-2007 and as amended from time
to time shall be binding to M/s. .............................. will fufill all the criteria
mentioned in the Notification of CEA.

On Behalf of On Behalf of
Gujarat Energy Transmission M/s. ...............................
Corporation Limited. Vadodara Mumbai.

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_________________________ __________________________

Witness:
1. ___________________ 1. ________________________

2. ___________________ 2. ________________________

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 MINISTRY OF POWER
(CENTRAL ELECTRICITY AUTHORITY)
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 21st February, 2007
No. 12/X/STD(CONN)/GM/CEA. – Whereas the draft of the Central Electricity Authority
(Technical Standards for Connectivity to the Grid) Regulations, 2006 were published as required by Sub-
section (2) of Section 177 of the Electricity Act, 2003 (36 of 2003) read with rule 3 of the Electricity
(procedure for previous Publication) Rules, 2005;
Now, therefore, in exercise of power conferred by Section 7 and clause (b) of Section 73 read with
Sub-Section (2) of Section 177 of Electricity Act, 2003, the Central Electricity Authority hereby makes the
following Regulations for regulating the technical standards for connectivity to the grid, namely :-
1. Short title and commencement
(1) These Regulation may be called the Central Electricity Authority (Technical Standards for
Connectivity to the Grid) Regulation, 2007.
(2) These Regulation shall come into force on the date of their publication in the official Gazette.

2. Definitions
In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires,-
(1) “Act” means The Electricity Act, 2003 (No. 36 of 2003);
(2) “Appropriate Load Despatch Centre” means the National Load Despatch Centre (NLDC),
Regional Load Despatch Centre (RLDC) or State Load Despatch Centre (SLDC) or Area Load
Despatch Centre as the case may be;
(3) “Area Load Despatch Centre” means the centre as established by the state for load dispatch and
control in a particular area of the state;
(4) “Appropriate Transmission Utility” means the Central Transmission Utility or State
Transmission Utility as the case may be;
(5) “Automatic Generation Control” (AGC) means capability to regulate the power output of
selectable units in response to total power plant output, tie-line power flow, and power system
frequency;
(6) “Automatic Voltage Regulator” (AVR) means a continuously acting automatic excitation
control system to regulate a generating unit terminal voltage;
(7) “British Standards” (BS) means those standards and specification approved by the British
Standards Institution;
(8) “Bulk consumer” means a consumer who avails supply at voltage of 33 kV or above;
(9) “Earth Fault Factor” at a location in a three-phase system means the ration of ‘the highest root
mean square (r.m.s) phase-to-earth power frequency voltage which would be obtained at the
selected location without the fault’;
(10) “Earthing” means connection between conducting parts and general mass of earth by an
earthing device;
(11) “Energy Management System” (EMS) means a complete system comprising software for
facilitating operation of a power system, maintaining safety, reliability and economy;
(12) “Event Logging Facilities” means a device provided to record the chronological sequence of
operation of the relays and other equipment;
(13) “Frequency” means the number of alternating cycles per second [expressed in Hertz (Hz)];
(14) “Generating Unit” means an electrical Generator coupled to a prime mover within a Power
Station together with all Plant and Apparatus at that Power Station (up to the Connection Point)
which relates exclusively to the operation of that generator;
(15) “IEC Standard” means a standard approved by the International Electrotechnical Commission;
(16) “Indian Standard” (IS) means standards specified by Bureau of Indian Standard;
(17) “Interconnection point” means a sub-station or switchyard at which point the interconnection is
established between the requester and the grid;
(18) “Isolator” means a device for achieving isolation of one part of an electrical system from the
rest of the system;
(19) “Maximum Continuous Rating” (MCR) of a generating unit means the maximum continuous
output in MW at the generator terminals guaranteed by the manufactured at rated parameters;
(20) “New Unit” means a generating unit for which the requester is seeking connection to the grid;
(21) “Power Factor” means the cosine of the electrical angle between the voltage and current
complexors in an AC electrical circuit;

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 (22) “Power System Stabilizer” (PSS) means controlling equipment which receives input signals of
speed, frequency and power to control the excitation via the voltage regulator for damping
power oscillation of a synchronous machine;
(23) “Protection System” means the equipment by which abnormal conditions in the grid are
detected and fault clearance, actuating signals or indications are initiated without the
intervention by the operator;
(24) “Reactive Power” means in relation to an AC electrical system, the product of root mean
square(r.m.s) voltage, root mean square (r.m.s) current and the sine of the electrical phase angle
between the voltage complexor and current complexor, measured in volt-amperes reactive
(VAr);
(25) “Requester” means a person such as a Generating Company including captive generating plant
or Transmission Licensee (excluding Central Transmission Utility and State Transmission
Utility) or Distribution Licensee or Bulk Consumer, who is seeking connection of his new or
expanded electrical plant to the Grid at voltage level 33 kV and above;
(26) “SCADA” means Supervisor Control and Data Acquisition System that acquires data from
remote locations over communication links and process it at centralized control location for
monitoring, supervision, control as well as decision support;
(27) “Site Common Drawing” means a drawing prepared for a connection site, which depicts layout
of connection site, electrical layout, common protection and control drawings and common
services;
(28) “Site Responsibility Schedule” (SRS) means a Schedule for demarcating the ownership,
responsibility for control, operation and maintenance of the equipment at interconnection point;
(29) “System Protection Scheme” means a scheme designed to detect abnormal system condition
and take predetermined, corrective action to preserve system integrity and provide acceptable
system performance;
(30) “Thermal Generating Unit” means a generating unit using fossil fuels such as coal, lignite,
gaseous and liquid fuel;
(31) “Total Harmonic Distortion” (THD) means a measure of distortion of the voltage or current
wave from (which shall ideally be sinusoidal) and is the square root of the sum of square of all
voltage or current harmonics expressed as a percentage of the magnitude of the fundamental;
(32) “Transmission System” means a network of transmission lines and sub-stations;
(33) “Under Frequency Relay” means a relay which operates when the system frequency falls below
a pre-set value;
(34) “User” means a person such as a Generating Company including captive generating plant or
Transmission Licensee (other than the Central Transmission Utility and State Transmission
Utility) or Distribution Licensee or Bulk Consumer, whose electrical plant is connected to the
grid at voltage level 33kV and above; and
(35) “Voltage Unbalance” means the deviation between highest and lowest line voltage devided by
Average Line Voltage of the three phases.
The words and expression used and not defined in these regulation but defined in the Act shall have
the meaning assigned to them in the Act.

3. Applicability of the Regulations

These regulations shall be applicable to all the user, requester, Central Transmission Utility and
State Transmission Utility.

4. Objectives
(1) The aim of these regulations is to ensure the safe operation, integrity and reliability of the grid.
(2) The new connection shall not cause any adverse effect on the grid. The grid shall continue to
perform with specified reliability, security and quality as per the Central Electricity Authority
(Grid Standard for Operation and Maintenance of Transmission Lines) Regulations, as and
when they come into force. However, these regulations are not to be relied upon to protect the
plant and equipment of the requester or user.
(3) A requester is required to be aware, in advance, of the standards and conditions his system has
to meet for being integrated into the grid.

5. Standards
The equipment shall meet the requirement in accordance with the provisions of Technical Standards
for Connectivity to the Grid as given in the Schedule of these regulations and Central Electricity
Authority (Grid Standards for Operation and Maintenance of Transmission Lines) Regulations as

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 and when they come into force, and Grid Code and the State Grid Code(s) as specified by the
appropriate Commission.

6. General Connectivity Conditions

(1) The requester shall be responsible for the planning, design, construction, reliability, protection
and safe operation of its own equipment subject to the regulations for construction operation
and maintenance and connectivity and other statutory provisions.
(2) The request and user shall furnish data as required by the Appropriate Transmission Utility or
by the licensee or generating station with whose system the inter-connection is proposed, for
permitting inter-connection with the grid.
(3) The requester and user shall provide necessary facilities for voice and data communication and
transfer of on-line operational data, such as voltage, frequency, line flows, and status of breaker
and isolator position and other parameters as prescribed by the Appropriate Load Despatch
Centre.
(4) The requester and user shall cooperate with the Regional Power Committee, and Appropriate
Load Despatch Centres in respect of the matters listed below, but not limited to :-
(a) Protection coordination and settings of its protective relays accordingly;
(b) Agree to maintain meters and communication system in its jurisdiction in good condition;
(c) Participate in contingency operation such as load shedding, increasing or reducing
generation, is landing, back start, providing start-up power and restoration as per procedure
decided by the Appropriate Load Despatch Centre;
(d) Furnish data as required by Appropriate Transmission Utility or Transmission Licensee,
Appropriate Load Despatch Centre, Appropriate Regional Power Committee, and any
committee constituted by the Authority or appropriate Government for system studies or
for facilitating analysis of tripping or disturbance in power system;
(e) Carryout modifications in his equipment with respect to short circuit level, protection
coordination and other technical reasons considered necessary due to operational
requirements;
(f) Abide by the coordinated outage plan of the state and region in respect of generating units
and transmission lines as approved by the Regional Power Committee; and
(g) Cooperate with the Regional Power Committee for tuning of Power System Stabilizer
provided in the excitation system of the generating unit.
(5) The requester and user shall make arrangements for integration of the controls and tele-
metering features of his system into the Automatic Generation Control, Automatic Load
Shedding, Special Protection System, Energy Management Systems and Supervisory Control
and Data Acquisition System of the respective state or region.
(6) For inter-connection studies the requester shall make a request for connection in the planning
stage to the Appropriate Transmission Utility. In case a requester is seeking inter-connection to
a distribution system, such a request will be made to the distribution licensee. The Appropriate
Transmission Utility or distribution licensee shall carry out the inter-connection study to
determine the point of inter-connection, required inter-connection facilities and modifications
required on the existing grids, if any, to accommodate the inter-connection. The study may also
address the transmission system capability, transients stability, voltage stability, losses, voltage
regulation, harmonics, voltage flicker, electromagnetic transients, machine dynamics, ferro
resonance, metering requirements, protective relaying, sub-station grounding and fault duties,
as the case may be.
(7) (1) Every connection of a requestor’s system to the grid shall be covered by a connection
agreement between the requester and
(a) Appropriate Transmission Utility in case of connection to inter-state transmission system
or intra-state transmission system as the case may be;
(b) Distribution licensee in case of inter-connection to distribution licensee’s system and
(c) Transmission licensee and Appropriate Transmission Utility, in case of inter-connection to
a transmission licensee (tri-partite agreement)
(2) The connection agreement shall contain general and specific technical conditions,
applicable to that connection.

7. Site Responsibility Schedule

(1) A site Responsibility Schedule (SRS) for every connection point shall be prepared by the owner
of the sub-station where connection is taking place.
(2) Following information shall be included in the Site Responsibility Schedule, namely,-

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 (a) Schedule of electrical apparatus services and supplies;
(b) Schedule of telecommunications and measurement apparatus; and
(c) Safety rules applicable to each plant and apparatus.

(3) Following information shall also be furnished in the Site Responsibility Schedule for each item
of equipment installed at the connection site, namely: -
(a) The ownership of equipment;
(b) The responsibility for control of equipment;
(c) The responsibility for maintenance of equipment;
(d) The responsibility of operation of equipment;
(e) The manager of the site;
(f) The responsibility for all matters relating to safety of persons at site; and
(g) The responsibility for all matter relating to safety of equipment at site.

8. Access at Connection Site

The requester or user, as the case may be owning the electrical plant shall provide reasonable
access and other required facilities to the licensee or Appropriate Transmission Utility or Appropriate
Load Despatch Centre, whose equipment is installed or proposed to be installed at the connection Site
for installation, operation and maintenance, etc. of the equipment.

9. Site Common Drawings

Site Common Drawing shall be prepared for each connection point by the owner of the Sub-station
where connection is taking place.