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Year
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Major Developments |
| 1991 |
The Electricity Laws (Amendment)
Act, 1991--Notification. Amends the Indian Electricity Act,
1910 and the Electricity (Supply) Act, 1948 by
 Private Sector
allowed to establish generation projects of all types
(except nuclear)
100% foreign
investment & ownership allowed
New pricing structure
for sales to SEBs.
5 Year Tax holiday;
import duties slashed on power projects |
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1992 |
Intensive wooing of foreign investors
in US, Europe & Japan |
| 1992-97 |
8
projects given "fast-track" status.
sovereign guarantees
from Central Government.
Seven reached
financial closure
Dabhol (Enron),
Bhadravati (Ispat), Jegurupadu (GVK), Vishakapatnam
(Hinduja), Ib Valley (AES), Neyveli (CMS),Mangalore
(Cogentrix) |
| 1995-96 |
World Bank Reform Model - First
Test Case Orissa
Orissa
Electricity Reform Act passed
Establishment
of Orissa Electricity Regulatory Commission
SEB unbundled
into Orissa Power Generating Company (OPGC), Orissa
Hydel Power Corporation (OHPC) and Grid Corporation of Orissa
(GRIDCO)
Distribution
privatized |
| 1996 |
Chief Ministers Conference: Common
Minimum Action Plan for Power:Recommend policy to create CERC
and SERCs
Licencing,
planning and other related functions to be delegated to SERCs.
Appeals
against orders of SERCs to be in respective High Courts
SERC to
determine retail tariffs, including wheeling charges etc., which
willensure a minimum overall 3% rate of return.
Cross -subsidization
between categories of consumers may be allowed
bySERCs, but no sector to pay less than 50% of the average
cost of supply ( costof generation plus transmission and distribution).
Tariffs for agricultural sectornot to be less than Rs. 0.50
Kwh and to be brought to 50% of the average costin not more than
three years.
Recommendations
of SERCs to be mandatory, but financial implications
anydeviations made by State/UT Government, to be provide
for the explicitly inthe State budget.
Fuel Adjustment
Charges (FCA) to be automatically incorporated in the
tariff .
Package
of incentives and disincentives to encourage and facilitate the
implementation of tariff rationalisation by the States.
States
to allow maximum possible autonomy to the SEBs, which are
to berestructured and corporatised and run on commercial basis.
SEBs toprofessionalize their technical inventory manpower and
project managementpractices. |
| 1997 |
CEA Clearance exempted for projects under 1000MW but State govt
environment clearance required up to 250-500 MW
Liquid
fuel policy -- naphtha allocations to IPPs |
| 1998 |
- Mega-Power Policy : special incentives
for the construction and operation of hydro-electric
power plants of at least 500 MW and thermal plants
of at least 1,000 MW.
- The Electricity Laws (Amendment) Act, 1998 and Electricity
Regulatory Commissions Ordinance -- Notification.
Creation of Central
Transmission Utility
STUs to be set
up with government companies
Establishment
of CERC and SERCs
Rationalization
of electricity tariffs,
Policies regarding
subsidies
Promotion of
efficient and environmentally benign policies
- Power Grid notified as Central Transmission Utility
- Haryana Electricity Reforms Act:
HSEB unbundled
into Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam Ltd., a Trans Co.
(HVPNL) and Haryana Power Corporation Ltd.
Creation of HERC
Two Government
owned distribution companies viz. Uttar Haryana Bijli
VitaranNigam Ltd. (UHBVNL) and Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitaran
Nigam (DHBVNL) have been established.
DFID's technical
co-operation grant of 15 million pounds available for
reforms. |
| 1999 |
- Andhra Pradesh Electricity Reforms
Act
APSEB unbundled into Andhra Pradesh Generation Company Ltd.
(APGENCO) and
Andhra Pradesh Transmission Company Ltd. (APTRANSCO
for transmission & distribution)
Creation of APERC
Other Developments:
World Bank loan
of US $ 210 million under the APL
DFID's 28 million
pounds as technical co-operation grant.
CIDA technical
assistance of Canadian $ 4 million.
- Karnataka Electricity Reforms Act
KEB and KPCL
transformed into new companies: Karnataka Power Transmission
Corporation Ltd. (KPTCL) and Visvesvaraya Vidyut Nigama Ltd.,
a GENCO, (VVNL)
Creation of KERC
Other Developments:
KPTCL has carved
out five Regional Business Centres (RBC) for five identifiedzones. |
| 2000 |
Power Ministers' Conference and Electricity Bill 2000 (draft):
Functional
disaggregation of generation, transmission and distribution
with aview to creating independent profit centres and
accountability;
Reorganisation
and restructuring of the State Electricity Boards in accordancewith
the model, phasing and sequencing to be determined
by the respective StateGovernments
States to determine
the extent, nature and pace of privatisation.
(public sectorentities may continue if the States
find them sustainable);
Transmission
to be separated as an independent function for creation
oftransmission highways that would enable viable public and
private investments;
Amendments
to the Indian Electricity Act, 1910 made in 1998 for facilitatingprivate
investment in transmission have been broadly retained
except that theprivate transmission companies would be regulated
by the RegulatoryCommissions and Transmission Centres
inst under the direction, supervision and control of the Central/State
TransmissionUtilities;
Present entitlements
of States to cheaper power from existing generating
stationsto remain undisturbed;
Provision of
compulsory metering for enhancing accountability and viability;
Central and
State Electricity Regulatory Commissions to continue broadly
onthe lines of the Electricity Regulatory Commissions Act,
1998;
State Regulatory
Commissions enjoined to recognise in their functioning
theneed for equitable supply of electricity to rural areas
and to weaker sections;
Stringent provisions
to minimise theft and misuse.
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