(1) On receipt of the application, the nodal agency shall, in consultation and through co-ordination with other agencies involved in intra-State transmission/ distribution system to be used, process the application and carry out the necessary system studies as expeditiously as possible so as to ensure that the decision to grant long-term access is arrived at within the timeframe specified in regulation 7:
Provided that in case the nodal agency faces any difficulty in the process of consultation or co-ordination, it may approach the Commission for appropriate directions.
(2) Based on the system studies, the nodal agency shall specify the intra- State transmission/distribution system that would be required to give long-term access. In case augmentation to the existing intra-State transmission/ distribution system is required, the same will be intimated to the applicant.
1 Sub-regulations (3), (4), (5) and (6) omitted vide Not. No. HPERC/ 418 dated 7 th December, 2012, published in R H.P. dated 10 th December, 2012 at p. 5409-5415. before omission the said sub regulations (3),
(4),(5) and (6) stood as under:- “(3) The application shall be accompanied by a bank guarantee of Rs 10,000/- (Rupees ten thousand) per MW of the total power to be transmitted. The bank guarantee shall be in favour of the nodal agency, in the manner laid down under the detailed procedure.
(4) The bank guarantee of Rs. 10,000/- (Rupees ten thousand) per MW shall be kept valid and subsisting till the execution of the long-term access agreement, in the case when augmentation of transmission/distribution system is required, and till operationalisation of the long-term access when augmentation of transmission/ distribution system is not required.
(5) The bank guarantee may be encashed by the nodal agency, if the application is withdrawn by the applicant or the long-term access rights are relinquished prior to the operationalisation of such rights when augmentation of transmission/ distribution system is not required.
(6) The aforesaid bank guarantee will stand discharged with the submission of bank guarantee required to be given by the applicant to the State Transmission Utility/ licensee during construction phase when augmentation of transmission/distribution system is required, in accordance with the provisions in the detailed procedure.” 10 Compendium of HPERC Regulations, March 2021