In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires,
(1) "Act" means the Electricity Act, 2003 (36 of 2003);
(2) “applicant” means a person who makes an application for availing long-term or medium-term open access to any transmission and/or distribution system within the State in accordance with these regulations;
(3) “captive generating customer” means a person who has constructed a captive generating plant and maintains and operates such plant and requires long-term or medium-term open access for the purpose of carrying electricity from his captive plant to the destination of his use;
(4) "Commission" means the Himachal Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission;
1 Published in the R.H.P. dated 3 rd June, 2010 at p. No. 1077-1093.
2 Corrected for “2 nd May, 2010” vide corrigendum issued on 14 th June, 2010 published in the R.H.P.
dated 15 th June, 2010 at p. 1350.
3 Regulations 3, 5 to 25 and 27 to 40 come into force w.e.f 5 th day, September, 2011 vide Not. No.
HPERC(TA)/418 dated 2 nd August, 2011 published in the R H.P. dated 3 rd September, 2011 at p. 2685-2686.
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(5) ”connectivity” in relation to a generating station, including a captive generating plant, a bulk customer or transmission/ distribution licensee means the 1 [state] of getting connected to the intra-State transmission/distribution system;
2 [(5-A) “consumer” means any person who is supplied with the electricity for his own use by a licensee or the Government or by any other person engaged in the business of supplying electricity to the public in the State of Himachal Pradesh under the Act or any other law for the time being in force and includes any person whose premises are connected for the purpose of receiving electricity with the works of licensee, the Government or any such other person, as the case may be;]
(6) “day” means a day starting at 00.00 hours and ending at 24.00 hours;
(7) “detailed procedure” means the procedure issued under regulation 26 of these regulations;
(8) “Grid Code” means the State Grid Code specified by the Commission under clause (h) of sub-section (1) of section 86 of the Act;
(9) “interface meters” means interface meters installed in accordance with the Central Electricity Authority (Installation and Operation of Meters) Regulations, 2006, specified by the Central Electricity Authority and amended from time to time;
(10) “intra-State entity” means a person whose metering and energy accounting are done by the State Load Despatch Centre or by any other authorised State Utility;
(11) “long-term access” means the right to use the intra-State transmission and/ or distribution system for a period exceeding 12 years but not exceeding 25 years;
(12) “long-term customer” means a person who has been granted long-term open access;
(13) “medium-term open access” means the right to use of the intra-State transmission and/or distribution system for a period exceeding 3 months but not exceeding 3 years;
(14) “medium-term open access customer” means a person granted medium-term open access;
(15) "month" means a calendar month as per the British calendar;
(16) "nodal agency" means the nodal agency mentioned in regulation 4 of these regulations;
(17) “open access customer” means a person, who has availed or intends to avail of open access under these regulations, and includes a medium-term or long-term open access customer in transmission or distribution, as the case may be, or a generating company (including the captive generating plant) or a licensee or a consumer 1 Subs. for the word “State” vide Not. No. HPERC/418 dated 7 th December, 2012, published in the R.H.P. dated 10 th December, 2012 at p. 5409-5415.
2 Added by vide Not. No. HPERC/ 418 dated 7 th December, 2012, published in the R.H.P. dated 10 th December, 2012 at p. 5409-5415 Compendium of HPERC Regulations, March 2021 3 permitted by the Commission to receive supply of electricity from a person other than distribution licensee of his area of supply, or a State Government entity authorised to sell or purchase electricity;
(18) “open access in distribution” means the non-discriminatory provision for the use of the distribution system and associated facilities by any open access customer in accordance with these regulations;
(19) “open access transaction” means a transaction for exchange of energy (MWh) between a specified buyer and a specified seller, directly or through a trading licensee, from a specified point of injection to a specified point of drawl for a fixed or varying quantum of power (MW) for any time period;
(20) “open access in transmission” means the non- discriminatory provision for the use of transmission system and associated facilities by any open access customer in accordance with these regulations;
(21) “short-term open access” means open access for a period upto one (1) month at one time;
(22) “short-term open access customer” means a person who has availed or intends to avail short-term open access;
(23) “State” means the State of Himachal Pradesh;
(24) “stranded transmission/distribution capacity” means the transmission/ distribution capacity in the intra-State transmission/distribution system which is likely to remain unutilized due to relinquishment of access rights by the long-term customer in accordance with regulation 17 of these regulations;
(25) “Supply Code” means the Supply Code specified by the Commission under section 50 and clause (x) of sub-section (2) of section 181 of the Act;
(26) “time block” means 15 minutes time period specified in the Grid Code for the purposes of scheduling and despatch; and
(27) other words and expressions used in these regulations and not defined herein, but defined in the Act or the Grid Code or the Supply Code, shall have the same meanings as are assigned to them in the Act, or the Grid Code, or the Supply Code, as the case may be.
CHAPTER - 2 GENERAL PROVISIONS