National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) has notified Rs 1.1635 per unit increase in electricity tariffs for Discos except lifeline consumers for August 2018 under monthly Fuel Component Adjustment (FCA).
According to the determination, the Authority has gone through the information provided by CPPA-G seeking monthly fuel adjustment and due diligence has been done accordingly. From perusal of the information provided by CPPA-G, the actual pool fuel cost for August 2018 was Rs 6.2483/kWh, against the reference fuel cost component of Rs 4.7752/kWh as indicated in the Authority's determination pertaining to the Discos for FY 2015-16.
The actual fuel charges for August 2018, as reported by CPPA-G, increased by Rs 1.4931/kWh as compared to the reference fuel charges. As per data submitted by CPPA-G the Discos purchased 57.99 GWh from small and captive power plants during August 2018. CPPA-G claimed Rs 397.22 million fuel cost of this energy which was slightly higher than Nepra working of Rs 397.09 million.
Accordingly, for the purpose of instant adjustment of August 2018, cost of Rs.397.02 million has been considered. CPPA-G claimed adjustment of Rs 2.073 billion for QATPL (Bhikki), owing to difference in the actual rates approved by the Authority and the rates claimed by CPPA-G from March 2017 till June 2018.
CPPA-G also submitted its working in this regard, however, based on the information submitted by CPPA-G, an amount of Rs 594 million could be verified which has been included in the FCA of August 2018. CPPA-G also included Rs.2.142 billion for JPCL owing to determination of FCC on RLNG by the Authority however the actual claim works out as Rs 1.380 billion. Out of the claimed amount of Rs 1.380 billion, an amount of Rs 631 million has been verified, which was allowed in FCA of August 2018. The remaining amount is under verification by Nepra's technical section and once verified, the Authority may consider allowing the same in subsequent monthly FCA.
CPPA-G further requested an amount of Rs.354 million for Port Qasim Power Plant along with its working. This has been verified as Rs 349 million, which is hereby allowed in the FCA of August 2018. CPPA-G has also claimed Rs 622 million for Haveli Bahadur Shah along with its working from May 2017 till June 2018. However, based on the information submitted by CPPA-G, an amount of Rs.210 million could be verified.
Accordingly, the amount of Rs 210 million has been included in the FCA of August 2018. CPPA-G also claimed adjustment of Rs 1.087 billion for Balloki, owing to difference in the actual rates approved by the Authority and the rates claimed by CPPA-G from July 2017 till June 2018. CPPA-G submitted its working in this regard. However, based on the information submitted by CPPA-G, an amount of Rs.381 million could be verified, which has been allowed in the FCA of August 2018.
CPPA-G in its claim included an amount of around Rs 706 million along-with additional energy of 85.77 GWh pertaining to the months of July 2017 and February 2018.
The Authority noted that CPPA-G in its monthly FCA data for July 2017 and February 2018 submitted earlier did not report this energy and its cost from Balloki Power plant. The Authority therefore directs CPPA-G to explain the reasons for not reporting this energy and its corresponding cost in the referred months.
CPPA-G reported NTDC transmission losses of 374.80 GWh i.e. 2.67% during August 2018 on overall generation of 14,017 GWh including energy generated and delivered at 132kV level directly to Discos. However, NTDCL, through its metering data, reported T&T losses of 368 GWh i.e. 2.98% during August 2018 based on energy of 12,337 GWh transmitted through NTDCL network at 500kV and 220kV level. As per the determination of NTDCL, for the FY 2015-16 & FY 2016-17 of April 11, 2017 and notified on August 27, 2018 the Authority has determined annual losses target of 2.80% for NTDCL for its 500 KV and 220 KV network only. The losses reported by NTDCL for August 2018 are 2.98% based on the energy delivered through NTDCL system, which results in cumulative losses of NTDCL from July 2018 to August 2018 as 2.98% based on allowed losses from July 2018 to August 2018, which are higher than the allowed threshold of 2.80%.
Accordingly, for working out FCA for August 2018, losses of 2.80% were used to calculate FCA of August 2018. The Authority also in its previous FCA decisions had been directing CPPA-G to provide the monthly FCA data on a specified format in addition to the format on which CPPA-G is currently submitting its FCA requests. However, this has not been provided with currently monthly FCA data.
The Authority took serious notice of this non-compliance by CPPA-G and again directed CPPA-G to submit the monthly FCA data in a specified format in addition to the format on which CPPA-G is currently submitting its FCA requests.
Nepra, after incorporating the adjustments, reviewed and assessed an increase of Rs 1.1635/kWh in the applicable tariff for Discos on account of variations in the fuel charges for the month of August 2018.
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