APERC: Tariff for the Wind & Industrial Waste Power projects
Andhra Pradesh Electricity regulatory Commission (APERC) in its order dated 6th September 2014 has given tariffs for the wind energy generators who have completed 10 years of their commercial operation. The tariff will be applicable to the wind generators of both the states i.e. Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
The project developers through their submissions requested commission to fix a reasonable tariff as they incurred higher losses due to lower PLF’s achieved. They also requested that in the initial years they paid higher wheeling charges while tariffs were low.
The commission in its order said that as the petitioners were the first movers for the wind generation in the then state of Andhra Pradesh. The PLF’s achieved by petitioners have varied between a range of 6% to 15% against the projected 20% such lowered efficiency has affected the performance of the wind mill generators.
After hearing all the respondent and taking all submissions into consideration the commission fixed single part tariff of Rs.3.37 per unit and said that the tariff should be continued for all these projects till the expiry of the respective PPAs.
In another hearing for fixing the tariff for industrial waste based power projects from 11th year to 20th year of operation, the commission in its order dated 1st September 2014 concluded that the tariff fixed for Biomass based power projects would also be applicable to the Industrial waste based power projects.
The commission in its order dated 19th July 2014 has fixed the fixed cost component for the Biomass based projects in its orderdt.19.07.2014. The details of the tariff are in the table below:
The relevant order can be accessed here.
The order for the Industrial waste based projects can be accessed here.
Our Previous blog post on APERC biomass tariff can be read here.
Contributed by Dheeraj Babariya.