As per the guidelines given by the Commission vide para 4.5 of the regulation (Regulation No.1/2006) the basis for determination of the Operating Charges are based on the Employee cost, Administration and General Charges, Repairs and Maintenance expenses and other relevant costs.
As per the clause 5 of the AP Electricity Regulatory Commission (Terms and
Conditions for determination of Transmission Tariff) Regulation, 2005,
(Regulation No. 5 of 2005), the Transmission Corporation of A.P. Ltd.,
(APTRANSCO) shall be required to maintain separate accounts for SLDC activity
and till such time as the accounts are not so segregated, it shall apportion
its costs on the basis of an Allocation Statement to be submitted to the
Commission with all relevant details, and the same was reiterated in clause No. 7 of Regulation No. 1 of
2006 of “Levy and collection of fees and charges by state
load despatch centre”. Accordingly the segregation of accounts
of SLDC from APTRANSCO is being taken up. As a part of the process and as per
the above Regulation the operating charges are being filed based on the
staffing plan now envisaged.
As per the Regulation No.2
of 2006 on Interim Balancing and Settlement Code for Open Access transaction,
the Energy Billing Centre operations which are presently in the APTRANSCO
business are also to be a part of SLDC business. Hence the Energy Billing
Centre is included in the SLDC business.
The details of the Annual Operating charges i.e.
Employee cost, Administration and General charges, Repairs and Maintenance
charges and other charges are shown in the below table 8
Table 8 Details of the Operating charge for the first control period
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Annual Operating charges for
SLDC for the first control period FY2007-08 and FY2008-09 |
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Sl. No. |
Description |
First Control Period |
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2007-08 |
2008-09 |
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Annual
Operating Charges |
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1 |
Employee
costs |
18.07 |
19.19 |
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2 |
Administration
& General expenses |
2.59 |
2.77 |
|
3 |
Repairs
& maintenance costs |
6.30 |
6.28 |
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4 |
Other
expenses |
0.04 |
0.04 |
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Total
Expenditure |
27.00 |
28.29 |
The Employee cost for the first control period is to be considered as per the tentative staffing plan or the actual employee cost, whichever is lower. The cost of the employees is about Rs 18.07 Crs for FY2007-08 and Rs 19.19 Crs for FY 2008-09. The following table 9 lists down the number of employees cadre wise for the SLDC Business.
Table 9: Statement of the Staffing Plan for
the SLDC Business
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Staff Details
in SLDC Business |
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Sl.No |
CADRE |
Number of
Posts in SLDC |
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Telecom |
Grid Operation |
Power System |
EBC wing |
Total |
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|
1 |
Chief Engineer |
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
3 |
|
2 |
Superintending
Engineer |
4 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
8 |
|
3 |
Divisional
Engineer |
12 |
10 |
7 |
1 |
30 |
|
4 |
Asst.Divl.Engineer |
47 |
13 |
8 |
4 |
72 |
|
5 |
AE
/ AAE |
105 |
13 |
9 |
3 |
130 |
|
6 |
AO |
3 |
|
|
1 |
4 |
|
7 |
JAO |
3 |
|
|
|
3 |
|
8 |
UDC/LDC/Steno |
6 |
|
|
|
6 |
|
9 |
Typists/Assistants |
29 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
32 |
|
10 |
PO |
2 |
|
|
|
2 |
|
11 |
JPO |
2 |
|
1 |
|
3 |
|
12 |
Programmer |
|
|
|
2 |
2 |
|
13 |
Data
entry operators |
|
2 |
2 |
1 |
5 |
|
14 |
O&M
staff |
16 |
6 |
|
|
22 |
|
15 |
Outsuorcing
staff |
116 |
|
|
|
116 |
|
16 |
Attenders |
36 |
2 |
6 |
1 |
45 |
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Total |
382 |
49 |
36 |
16 |
483 |
While calculating the Employee cost, the major portion of the costs considered were taken from the payroll of the above employees. Apart from the payroll details the following benefits extended to the employees were also considered as the employee costs.
· Surrender leave.
· Various medical allowances.
· Leave travel and other allowances.
APTRANSCO has been in the process of assessing the staff required for transmission and SLDC businesses separately so as to carryout all the functions as envisaged in the ELECTRICITY ACT, 2003 including maintenance of records in respect of Open Access customer / trader. Pending finalization of this exercise and separation of SLDC business (along with assets and liabilities ) from APTRANSCO, the O&M cost pertaining to Grid Operations, Power Systems, Energy Billing Centre and Telecom is taken in to account as per the existing system for the purpose of this MYT filings.
All other expenses including traveling allowance, cost for telephones and vehicles, electricity expenses, insurance charges and other miscellaneous costs have been considered under the head of Administration & General expenses. The Administration and General Charges of SLDC business for the first control period is arrived as Rs 2.59Crs for FY2007-08 and Rs 2.77 Crs for FY 2008-09.
As per the clause No. 7 of Regulation 2/2006, the Energy Billing Center is also considered as the SLDC Business. Therefore the assets of SLDC Business are mainly in Grid Operation unit, Energy Billing Center and Telecom units. At present the Telecom unit assets are common for the Transmission business as well as SLDC business. During the segregation of the accounts separation the SLDC part of assets will be finalised. However for the purposes of calculation of operating charges certain amount of Repairs and Maintenance expenses have been considered in the SLDC business. These costs are primarily for the RTU’s and the SCADA system have been considered in SLDC.
The Repairs and Maintenance Charges of SLDC business for the first control period is arrived at Rs 6.30 Crs for FY2007-08 and Rs 6.28 Crs for FY 2008-09. The need for the above R&M costs for SLDC business in each of the three wings viz., Grid Operation, Telecommunication , Power Systems and EBC wings is detailed below.
Telecom
Broadband communication system consists of Fibre Optic equipment i.e. OLTE and Digital Microwave, MUX, NMS and other associated equipment. All the equipment is supplied and commissioned by MNCs like M/s. MARCONI, Italy, M/s. Alstom, France, M/s. ALCATEL, France. As a part of Unified Scheme, AMC of the communication system in Southern Region is awarded to original suppliers by Power Grid on behalf of all SEBs as the original invoices are with PGICL. PGCIL initially will pay to the companies and SEBs inturn will pay the monthly AMC charges to Power Grid.
EBC
For smooth operations of Open Access and data collection system very essentially required for AMC of Systems like Servers, Workstations, HUBs, Switches and procurement of consumables like Printer cartridges and other miscellaneous spares.
Grid OP
The EMS/ SCADA system in A.P is being implemented by M/s POWERGRID under southern region System co-ordination & control project. In this system the Application servers, workstations, Front-end processors, Routers, UPS systems, batteries and D.G sets are installed at four Area Load Despatch centers i.e Mamidipally, Warangal, Kadapa & Nunna and Backup SLDC, Vidyut Soudha. The EMS/ SCADA systems comprises of hardware and software with hierarchical control philosophy and forms an integral part of grid system aiding grid operator in day to day monitoring, operation and management of grid system in APTRANSCO and also the integrated southern region grid operation as a whole from southern region load dispatch center (SRLDC) Bangalore. The system is supplied and is presently maintained by M/s. GE- Harris, Florida, U.S.A. The charges towards maintenance of EMS/SCADA system by M/s. GE Energy Ltd., UPS systems by M/s. Emerson and M/s. Numeric are projected in the R&M cost. The cost towards procurement of computer consumables for use in Grid Operation wing is included in R&M cost.
The expenses pertain to contribution to pension fund and procurement of consumables are considered as the other expenses. The other expenses of SLDC business for the first control period are arrived as Rs 0.04 Crs for FY2007-08 and Rs 0.04 Crs for FY 2008-09. As per the Clause no 4.6 of Regulation No.1 of 2006 the monthly Operating charges are computed as per the formula prescribed.
Operating Charges (Rs / MW /pm) = Annual Operating charges
Total Generating Capacity (MW) * 12
The Monthly Operating Charges for FY2007-08 is Rs 1862.39 / MW/ per month and for FY 2008-09 it is Rs 1815.55 /MW /per month. The details of the Operating charges as shown in Table 10
Table 10 Summary the Operating Charges for the first Control Period.
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Operating Charges for first
Control Period (Rs/MW/p.a) |
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Parameter Description |
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2007-08 |
2008-09 |
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Annual Operating
Charges |
a |
27.00 |
28.29 |
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Total Generating
Capacity MW |
b |
12083 |
12983 |
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Operating charges
(Rs/MW/month) |
a / b |
1862.39 |
1815.55 |
ANNEXURE
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Installed
Capacities for SLDC Business for first control period FY 2007-08 and
FY2008-09 |
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