(1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires,—
(a) ‘Act’ means the Electricity Act, 2003 (36 of 2003);
(a) ‘Actual Drawal’ in a time-block means electricity drawn by a buyer, as computed or projected appropriately, as described in more detail in regulation 5, on the basis of the energy recorded by the Interface meters and other related data of losses;
(c) ‘Actual Injection’ in a time-block means electricity generated or supplied by the seller, as the case by, as computed or projected appropriately, as described in more detail in regulation 5, on the basis of the energy recorded by the Interface meters and other related data of losses;
(d) ‘Area Load Despatch Centre’ or ‘ALDC’ means a Load Despatch to carry out the operating directives of the SLDC and assist the SLDC for safe Centre established by the distribution licensee operating in the State and integrated operation of the concerned distribution network;
1 Published in the R.H.P. dated 25 th October, 2018 at p. 5710-5727.
2 Compendium of HPERC Regulations, March 2021 1 [(da) 'Area Clearing Price (ACP)' means the price of a time block electricity contract established on the Power Exchange after considering all valid purchase and sale bids in particular area(s) after market splitting, i.e. dividing the market across constrained transmission corridor(s), as established by NLDC pursuant to Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (Deviation Settlement Mechanism and Related Matters) Regulations, 2014 as amended from time to time;]
(e) ‘Beneficiary’ means the person purchasing electricity generated from a generating station;
(f) ‘Buyer’ means a person, including beneficiary and distribution licensee purchasing electricity through a transaction scheduled in accordance with the relevant regulations, including those applicable for short-term open access, medium-term open access and long-term access;
(g) ‘Central Commission’ means the Central Electricity Regulatory Commissionreferred to in sub-section (1) of section 76 of the Act;
(h) ‘Commission’means the Himachal Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission referred to in sub–section (1) of section 82 of the Act.
2 [(ha) 'Daily Base DSM' means the sum of charges for deviations, as per Regulation 7, for all time blocks in a day payable or receivable as the case may be,excluding the additional charges under Regulation 9 and Regulation 9A;
(hb) 'Day Ahead Market (DAM)' means a market where physical delivery of electricity occurs on the next day (T+1) of the date of transaction (T) and is governed by the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (Power Market) Regulations, 2010 (as amended from time to time), the Rules and Bye-Laws of the Power Exchanges as approved by the Central Commission;]
(i) ‘Deviation’ in a time-block for a seller means its total actual injection minus its total scheduled generation and for a buyer means its total actual drawal minus its total scheduled drawal;
(j) ‘Gaming’ in relation to these regulations, shall mean an intentional misdeclaration of declared capacity by any seller or buyer in order to make an undue commercial gain through a Charge for Deviations;
(k) ‘Grid Code’ means the Grid Code specified by the Commission under clause of sub-section (1) of Section 86 of the Act;
(l) ‘Interface Meters’ means interface meters as defined by the Central Electricity Authority under the Central Electricity Authority (Installation and Operation of Meters)Regulations, 2006, as amended from time to time, or any other meter as may be relevant in specific situation;
(m) ‘Intra-State Deviation Charges’ mean charges for deviation as specified by these regulations;
(n) ‘Open Access Consumer’ means a consumer, trader, distribution licensee or generating company who has been granted Open Access under relevant regulations;
1 Add. clause “(da)” for vide not. No. HPERC/428 dated 29 th June, 2019, published in R.H.P. dated 3 rd July, 2019 at p. 3131-3137.
2 Add clauses “(ha & hb)” for vide not. No. HPERC/428 dated 29 th June, 2019, published in R.H.P.
dated 3 rd July, 2019 at p. 3131-3137.
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(o) ‘Open Access Regulations’ mean the Himachal Pradesh Electricity Regulatory (Grant of Connectivity, Long-term and Medium-term intra- State Open Access and Related Matters) Regulations, 2010 and the Himachal Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (Short Term Open Access) Regulations, 2010;
(p) ‘Qualified Coordinating Agency (QCA)’ means the agency/licensee coordinating on behalf of RE generators and other systems, if any, connected to a pooling station. The QCA may be one of the generator/distribution licensee or RE generator selling power to the distribution licensee or any other mutually agreed agency for the following purposes, namely:— coordinate for schedules with periodic revisions on behalf of all the RE generations connected to the pooling station(s) or selling power to the distribution licensee;
responsible for coordination with the STU/SLDC for metering, data collection/ transmission, communication;
where applicable, undertake commercial settlement on behalf of the generators of such charges pertaining to generation deviations only including payments to the Regional/State Deviation Pool Accounts through the SLDC; and undertake de-pooling of payments received on behalf of the generators from the State Deviation Pool Account and settling them with the individual generators. The QCA shall be treated as a State Entity and shall be registered with the SLDC.
(q) ‘Scheduled Generation’ at any time or for a time block or any period meansschedule of generation in MW or MWh ex-bus given by the State Load Despatch Centre;
(r) ‘Scheduled drawal’ at any time or for a time block or any period time block means schedule of despatch in MW or MWh ex-bus given by the State Load Despatch Centre;
(s) ‘Seller’ means a person, including a generating station and distribution license, supplying electricity through a transaction scheduled in accordance with the relevant regulations applicable for short-term open access, mediumterm open access and long-term open access;
1[(sa) 'Simple Average Area Clearing Price (SAACP)' means the simple average area clearing price as discovered/computed on daily basis by the NLDC for the day ahead market segment of the Power Exchange in accordance with the provisions of Central ElectricityRegulatory Commission (Deviation Settlement Mechanism and Related Matters) Regulations, 2014 amended from time to time and thereafter posted by it on their website, which shall be automatically applicable for the purpose of these regulations also;]
(t) ‘State Entity/Constituent’ means such a person who is in the SLDC control area and whose metering and energy accounting is done at the State level and as described in more detail in regulation 4 of these regulations;
1 Added clause “(sa)” for vide not. No. HPERC/428 dated 29 th June, 2019, published in R.H.P. dated 3 rd July, 2019 at p. 3131-3137.
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(u) ‘State Load Despatch Centre’ means the centre established under subsection (1) of section 31 of the Act;
(v) ‘State Grid’ means the Intra-State Transmission System/ network owned by the State Transmission Utility (STU)/transmission licensee(s) and/or the EHV/High Voltage Distribution System/ network owned by the distribution licensee(s) within the State;
(w) ‘State Periphery’ or ‘HP Periphery’ means, except in situations which may warrant any other treatment in specific cases, the interconnection point of the transmission system of the STU with the transmission system of the CTU; or with any other inter State transmission system not owned by any State Entity; or with the generation bus-bar of the joint sector projects from where power is supplied to the distribution licensee through the STU system;
(x) ‘STU Periphery’ means the interconnection point between the transmission system of the STU with the distribution system of the distribution licensee;
(y) ‘Time-block’ means a time block of 15 minutes, for which specified electrical parameters and quantities are recorded by special energy meter, with first time block starting at 00.00 hrs:
Provided that the Commission may revise the duration of time block to 5 minutes, or any other duration, from the date to be notified by it from time to time;
1[(ya) 'Time Block DSM' means the charge for deviation, as per Regulation 7, for the specific time block in a day payable or receivable as the case may be, excluding the additional charges under Regulation 9 and Regulation 9A;]
(z) ‘Un-Requisitioned Surplus’ or ‘(URS)’ means the reserve capacity in a generating station that has not been requisitioned and is available for despatch, and is computed as the difference between the declared capacity of the generating station and its total schedule under long-term, medium-term and short-term transactions, as per the relevant regulations of the appropriate Commission; and
(za) ‘Week’ means a period of seven continuous days beginning at 00 hrs of each Monday or as reckoned by the NRPC for preparing weekly deviation accounts.
(2) The words and expressions used in these regulations and not defined herein, but defined in the Act or the regulations issued by the Commission, shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Act or in such regulations issued by the Commission; the words and expressions used herein but not specifically defined in these regulations or in the Act, but defined under any law, passed by a competent Legislature and applicable to the electricity industry in the State, shall have the meanings assigned to them in such law; the words and expressions used herein, but not specifically defined in the regulations or in the Act or any law passed by a competent Legislature, shall have the meanings as are generally assigned to them in the electricity industry.
1 Added clause “(ya)” for vide not. No. HPERC/428 dated 29 th June, 2019, published in R.H.P. dated 3 rd July, 2019 at p. 3131-3137.
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