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INDEX
A.1 Minutes of 37th meeting of TCC .............................................................................................................. 5
A.2 Minutes of 40th meeting of NRPC .......................................................................................................... 10
B. OPERATIONAL ISSUES
B.1 Revised System Protection Scheme (SPS) for 765 kV Agra-Gwalior line. ........................................... 10
B.2 System Study for Capacitor Requirement in NR for the year 2019-20. ................................................. 11
B.3 Reactive compensation at 220 kV and 400kV level. .............................................................................. 12
B.4 Down Stream network by State utilities from ISTS Station ................................................................... 13
B.5 Database of protection settings............................................................................................................... 20
B.6 Issue of ownership of 3x105 MVA ICT replaced by POWERGRID in place of 250 MVA ICT at
BBMB, Dehar......................................................................................................................................... 20
B.7 LVRT issues of wind generation ............................................................................................................ 22
B.8 Connectivity to Naitwar Mori HEP (NMHEP) (2X30MW) of SJVN Ltd. in Uttarakhand .................... 23
B.9 Follow up of Major Decisions of NRPC. ............................................................................................... 26
B.10 Replacement of old S900 RTUs ............................................................................................................. 31
B.11 OPGW connectivity at NHPC Power Stations under Central Sector scheme ........................................ 32
B.12 Non availability of data from major PSTCL Sub-stations...................................................................... 33
B.13 Shifting of Rihand-III to WR ................................................................................................................. 34
B.14 AGC Implementation ............................................................................................................................. 36
B.15 Summer Preparedness – 2018 ................................................................................................................ 37
B.16 Winter grid operation 2017-18 (Agenda by NRLDC)............................................................................ 43
B.17 Important regulatory changes ................................................................................................................. 47
B.18 Commissioning of new elements in Uttar Pradesh state control area without underlying network
connectivity (Agenda by NRLDC) ......................................................................................................... 49
B.19 Reliability Issue of Kashmir Valley ....................................................................................................... 50
B.20 Long outage of transmission elements and important upcoming lines ................................................... 51
B.21 Overdrawal by state entities ................................................................................................................... 53
B.22 Non availability of data from major PSTCL Sub-stations...................................................................... 54
B.23 Communication Plan for Channel Redundancy and to Back-up ............................................................ 54
B.24 Reliable communication from state sector RTUs ................................................................................... 54
B.25 Telemetry of Interface points ................................................................................................................. 55
B.26 Phase nomenclature mismatch between BBMB and some interconnected stations of other power
utilities .................................................................................................................................................... 55
B.27 Converting Fixed Line Reactors to Switchable in Kankroli–Zerda line at Kankroli end ..................... 56
B.28 Shifting of 330 MVAR, 765kV Bus reactor-I at 765/400kV Varanasi GIS ........................................... 57
B.29 Delay in constitution of a group to analyze reasons for failures in Scada & EMS system and to suggest
remedial measures to avoid recurrence of such events ........................................................................... 57
B.30 Delay in implementation of various pending Scada & EMS works by Siemens.................................... 58
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B.31 Delay in Fibre optic based communication system in NR and additional OPGW connectivity in
northern region under Fibre optic Expansion Project ............................................................................ 58
B.32 Delay in Training on EMS applications ................................................................................................. 59
B.33 Pending Networking issues .................................................................................................................... 59
B.34 Early Commissioning of 400/220 kV Tughalakabad Substation and associated lines ........................... 59
C. COMMERCIAL ISSUES
C.1 Procurement of licenses of PoC software. .............................................................................................. 61
C.2 Deemed Availability Certification requiring outage for new infrastructure development projects of Rail
& Road networks etc. ............................................................................................................................. 61
C.3 Signing of TPA by State Govt. with GoI & RBI .................................................................................... 64
C.4 Default in payment of outstanding dues and surcharge by beneficiaries................................................ 64
C.5 Opening of Letter of Credit (LC) ........................................................................................................... 66
C.6 Status of DSM Charges .......................................................................................................................... 67
C.7 Long pending outstanding of PDD, J&K and UPPCL ........................................................................... 68
C.8 Reactive Energy charges status as on 30.01.2018, till week-41. ............................................................ 69
C.9 NRLDC Fee & Charges ......................................................................................................................... 69
C.10 Congestion Charges ............................................................................................................................... 70
C.11 Issue of NFL (National Fertilizer Ltd.) .................................................................................................. 70
C.12 Reconciliation of Pool Accounts (Oct-17 to Dec-17) ............................................................................ 71
C.13 Status of Ancillary Services ................................................................................................................... 71
C.14 Reconciliation of STOA (Short Term Open Access) Charges disbursement ......................................... 72
C.15 TDS Reconciliation of STOA ................................................................................................................ 72
C.16 Status of Outstanding STOA Delay Payment Interest (Agenda by NRLDC) ........................................ 73
C.17 STATUS of AMR as on 30.01.2018 ...................................................................................................... 73
C.18 Integration of AMR System with Elster Meters ..................................................................................... 74
C.19 AMR data through Fibre Optic Network................................................................................................ 74
D. ITEMS FOR NRPC
D.1 Reimbursement of Expenditure of NRPC Sectt. for the year 2017-18 by the members of NRPC ......... 75
D.2 Reimbursement of Expenditure of NRPC Sectt. by the members of NRPC for the previous years ....... 75
D.3 Regular Membership in NRPC .............................................................................................................. 76
Annexure I..............................................................................................................................................................78
Annexure II.............................................................................................................................................................81
Annexure III...........................................................................................................................................................84
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38th TCC & 41stNRPC Meetings (27thand 28thFebruary,2018) –Minutes
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NORTHERN REGIONAL POWER COMMITTEE
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41 MEETING OF NORTHERN REGIONAL POWER COMMITTEE
The 38th meeting of Technical Coordination Sub-Committee (TCC) and 41st meeting
of Northern Regional Power Committee (NRPC) were held on 27th
and28thFebruary,2018, respectively at Surajkund, Faridabad, Haryana.The list of
participants ofthe TCC and NRPC meetings is enclosed at Annexure- I & II,
respectively.
PROCEEDINGS OF 3 8t h MEETING OF TCC
1. Sh. Dalip Singh, Director ( Proj.), HVPNLwelcomed the Members of the TCC and
other delegates in the picturesque and historic place of Surajkund. He briefly
mentioned the historic importance of the Surajkund which dates back to 10th Century
AD. He expressed satisfaction that in the winter season the grid was stable and there
was no major incident. He lauded the efforts of all the concerned utilities of Northern
Region and NRPC in this regard. He also mentioned that the trippings due to fog were
less as a result of insulator cleaning and replacement done by utilities. While
mentioning the high voltage problem in Northern Region Grid, due to which a large
number of lines were opened frequently during winter season, he urged that serious
steps need to be taken in this regard. He emphasized that the Coal shortage issue in
generating stations of Haryana as well as that of other utilities in Northern Region is a
cause of concern and urged that this issue must be resolved before peak summer
season. He stated that the previous decisions in TCC and NRPC had been very useful
in resolving several issues and expressed hope that the deliberations in this TCC
would also be helpful in resolving issues amicably.
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2. Sh. Asgar Ali Majaz, Chairman, TCC and Development Commissioner, Power, PDD,
J&K welcomed the members and other participants of the 38th TCC meeting. He
thankedHaryana Power Utilities for hosting the meeting and making a comfortable
stay arrangement for delegates.
3. He expressed satisfaction that winter load period in Northern Region had passed
without any significant event affecting grid security. He mentioned that in Northern
Region, during the current year, more than 58 GW demand was successfully met and
load not served was 1.7% and 3.8%, in energy and peak terms,respectively, which
was mainly due to system constraint and commercial reasons. He added that the
availability of power is generally not an issue, as we are meeting 58 GW demand
from 92 GW capacity in Northern Region. In Northern Region except J&K other
States are generally comfortable in power supply. He informed that the State of J&K
is not able to meet its demand mainly due to constraints in distribution and
transmission system, especially in valley area. Commissioning of 220 kV network at
Wagoora and Kishanpur would help in meeting demand in Valley area. At the
distribution level the network strengthening as well as focus on complete metering of
load is required to correctly asses the demand and to bridge gap between demand and
supply. He urged that not only J&K but all the States need to reduce the Aggregate
Technical and Commercial ( AT&C) Losses, which is about 25% at all India level.
4. Chairman, TCC mentioned that some utilities had been overdrawing from grid during
last few months resulting in frequency reduction and endangering the grid security.
During current financial year the frequency remained about 25 % of the time beyond
the permissible limit. This was in spite of frequent ancillary services support. We
should understand that non-scheduling of power from generating stations and
allowing this power to be booked under ancillary services results in extra burden on
Distribution Companies. He requested all the SLDCs and Distribution Companies to
improve load & generation forecasting and schedule power judiciously to optimize
overall costof power as well as to ensure safe & reliable operation of power system.
5. Highlighting the issue of non-reliable communication and telemetry system he
mentioned that efforts are being made, but, the intended results are yet to be achieved,
as at present the data, in NRLDC, from about 30% of Generating/Grid stations in
Northern Region is either not received or not reliable. He stated that theSCADA&
telemetry is Eye & Ear of the power system. The crucial decisions of real time Grid
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operation are taken on the basis of information from this system only. Non-
availability of complete and correct information may result in wrong decision
resulting in compromise in grid safety as well as in financial repercussions. He urged
all the utilities to make more concerted efforts to ensure the reliable telemetry,
keeping in view it’s operational as well as commercial importance.
6. While mentioning the project for creating a system for protection data base and
analytical tools, which will help in maintaining a healthy protection system, he
requested all entities to complete internal audit of protection system before start of
peak summer season to ensure availability & healthiness of required protection
system. He also requested the utilities to complete all the activities for summer
preparedness.
7. Expressing his gratitude, Chairman, TCC once again thanked all the participants for
sparing time to discuss the important issues. He expressed his hope that the
discussions would be fruitful, which would go long way in facilitating safe, reliable
and economic operation of NR power system.
8. Sh. M.A.K.P.Singh,Member Secretary, NRPC welcomed the Members of Technical

Coordination Sub-Committee and other delegates ofthe 38th TCC meeting and
expressed sincere thanks to Power Utilities of Haryana for excellent arrangements
and hospitality. He briefly described important issues including Capacitor study,
protection database, summer preparedness etc. to be discussed in TCC meeting. He
also emphasised the importance of RGMO in facilitating reduction of extra financial
burden on utilities in form of charges for ancillary and AGC. Referring to presentation
by Gujarat SLDC, on best utility practices, in recent FOLD meeting he urged all the
SLDCs to follow the best practices for safe , reliable and economic operation of the
grid.
C O N F I R M A T I O N O F M I N U T E S ( T C C )
A.1 Minutes of 37th meeting of TCC

Minutes of 37thmeeting of TCC held on 27th October, 2017, were circulated vide letter
No. NRPC/Comml/209/RPC(40th)/2018/455-543dated 11th January, 2018.Comments
on the minutes have been received from NHPC, POWERGRID and NTPC which
were enclosed at Annexure-A1.1 and A1.2 and A1.3respectively in the agenda note.
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NHPC:
NHPCvide their letter no. NH/O&M/GMC/17/222 dated 22/01/2018 hadrequested for
deletion of the following from B21.3 in the minutes:
“and payment for the same shall be charged to NHPC and NHPC confirmed that
payment is not an issue.”
TCC agreed to delete the above line.
POWERGRID:
POWERGRID vide their letter no. C/CTU/N/00 dated 23/01/2018 had requested to
issue corrigendum to the Minutes of 40thNRPCmeeting to include the issues which
were inadvertently missed out. Accordingly,MS, NRPC informedthe committee that
corrigendum to the minutes has already been issued vide NRPCletter No.
NRPC/Comml/209/RPC (40th)/2018/2485-2531dated 19th January, 2018. Committee
noted and approved the corrigendum of minutes.
NTPC:
NTPCvide their letter no 01:CD:102dated 29.01.2018 had given comments on the
point no. B.23 ii (Coal Shortage during summer/ Monsoon: Agenda by NRLDC).
B.23 ii states the following:
“TCC concurred the decision of OCC that stations shall not reduce their DC during
the day due to coal shortage and shall keep at least two days stock and declare DC
accordingly.”
NTPC had claimed that neither in 139th OCC meeting nor during discussion of 37th
TCC meeting such a decision was taken.
MS,NRPCinformed the committee that the said decision was taken by OCC in its
140th OCC meeting and not in 139th OCC meeting. Committee agreed that no
amendment to the minutes were required for the referred point.
TCC confirmed the minutes of 37thmeetingof TCC incorporating the changes as
stated above by NHPC. TCC also confirmed the corrigendum to the minutes of
37th meeting of TCC issued based on the comments of POWERGRID.
PROCEEDINGS OF 41st M E E T I N G O F NRPC
1. Sh. Dalip Singh, Director (Proj.), HVPNLwelcomedSh. P.K.Das, Additional Chief

Secretary, Power, Haryana; Chairperson, NRPC and other Members of the
NRPC.He mentioned that Sh. Das was the first Secretary of the Haryana State
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Electricity Regulatory Commission ( HERC), which was only second SERC to be

established in the country after Odissa SERC.
2. Sh. P.K.Das, Additional Chief Secretary, Power, Haryana welcomed all the
dignitaries and other participants of NRPC meeting in the State of Haryana at the
picturesque location of Surajkund. While appreciating the efforts of all the utilities in
making the power supply position in Northern Region relatively better, he cautioned
the utilities not to be complacent. He opined that though the power supply scenario
seems to be comfortable, there are still some areas in some States which do not have
reliable and quality power availability. He suggested the utilities to make effort to
supply power as per actual unrestricted demand as in present condition utilities are
supplying power where they want to andnot exactly as per demand.
3. Sh. Das had also expressed concern about the Coal shortage issue becoming
perennial from seasonal. He suggested taking measures to ensure adequate supply of
Coal by taking up the issue with Ministry of Power as well as Ministry of Coal.
Citing example of huge financial losses incurred by State utilities of Haryana in last
ten years, he called for action by utilities for reducing Aggregate Transmission and
Commercial ( AT&C) losses by taking up the power supply activities as business. He
mentioned that the inter-state infrastructure and regulatory environment is well
developed for facilitating a vibrant power market in the country. He advised all the
power utilities to be financially self reliant by adopting business practices, which is
very essential for sustainable power sector in the country. While mentioning the “
UDAYA” scheme he cautioned the power sector players that one time bail out
scheme should not give a reason to be euphoric, instead, the utilities should find out
ways and means to become financially self sustainable.
4. Sh. Das has also mentioned the challenge of integration of large renewable power
especially Solar power. He stated that due to inherent characteristic of generation
variability from these renewable resources, balancing of the power availability with
conventional resources and modification of load pattern to follow the generation is
need of hour.
5. He appreciated the role of deliberations and decisions in NRPC in resolving the
issues and facilitating the safe, reliable and economic operation of the Northern
Region Grid and expressed his belief that NRPC deliberations would go a long way
in guiding the resolving all the issues.
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6. Chairperson, NRPC, and Commissioner & Secretary, PDD, Govt. of Jammu &
Kashmir, Shri Hirdesh Kumar, IAS, welcomed the members of the Northern
Regional Power Committee and other delegates of the 41stmeeting of NRPC. He
expressed his gratitude especially towards Sh. P.K.Das, Additional Chief Secretary,
Power, Haryana for accepting his request and his enlightening words.
7. While applauding TCC efforts in deliberating and resolving several issues, he urged
all the members to implement the decisions in letter & spirit, in a time bound
manner.
8. Chairperson, NRPC appreciated the contribution of all stakeholders in facilitating the

Northern Power system in meeting the highest ever demand successfully. He
mentioned that load not served in the region was significant only in few States. It
was highest in J&K, which is mainly due to distribution & transmission system
constraints. He apprised the house that huge funds had been made available to J&K,
under Pradhanmantri special package, in last two years and most of the works for
improving transmission & distribution system had already been awarded. He added
that several schemes were under progress and with the help of Central agencies like
POWERGRID, REC etc. the works would be completed
successfullyandtheT&Dconstraints would be mitigated very soon.
9. Chairperson, NRPC advised all the concerned utilities to take necessary action for
summer preparedness to ensure smooth functioning of the grid with reliability
&optimum economy. He requested all the generating stations to prepare themselves
for maximising generation during peak summer season by ensuring Coal availability
in thermal generating stations and minimizing outages of Hydro generators due to
silt.
10. He stated that Renewable Energy generation capacity of about 62 GW has surpassed
hydro generation capacity ofabout 45 GW in the country. He cautioned about new
challenges in managing the grid, with more penetration of renewable energy. He
added that all the power sector players should be prepared to adopt new ways and
means like Automatic Generation Control ( AGC), flexing of Coal based generation,
optimization of hydro and gas based generation for meeting peak loads, demand
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response, storage facilities, latest forecasting techniques etc. to manage the

variability of renewable power. He suggested that the commercial and technical
aspects should be seen in larger perspective for enabling sustainable growth of power
sector. He added that the commercial interest of the individual utility must be seen
but at the same time it should be kept in mind that the smooth operation of the grid is
collective responsibility of all the utilities. He opined that optimization of cost of
power along with ensuring 24X7 power supply to all category of consumers is a
challenge for State utilities.
11. While appreciating the efforts of load dispatchers for running a very large and
complex power system, he emphasized the need for availability of proper,
communication and telemetry facilities in today’s power system. He expressed
concern about deficiency in these facilitiesandrequested all the utilities to work on
this issue on war footing.
12. Chairperson, NRPC informed about the major changes in scheduling, metering and
accounting, in form of 5 minute time block instead of present 15 minute time block.
He stated that this would be a new challenge for all the utilities. He added that the
generating utilities must gear up for reliable generation forecasting and the load
serving utilities must take step to improve the load forecasting by using latest
technologies to enable fast decision making, by investing in latest technology for
keeping pace with changing scenario.
13. The availability of adequate and trained man power in power sector organisationswas
indicated as a major challenge by Chairperson, NRPC. He mentioned that there had
been efforts for training and certification in specific areas of power sector, but almost
all the utilities are facing manpower crunch. He advised all the utilities to take
immediate steps to hire adequate manpower and train them to make the manpower
able to deal with ever increasing technical as well as financial and commercial
complexities in power sector. In this regard, while applauding the efforts of
NRPCsectt. fortaking steps in skill development by organising several training
courses, he advised toorganize more of such training courses in future also, so that
power sector personnel remain updated with current technology and best practices.
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14. He stated that with increasing complexity the conflicts are bound to happen. He
highlighted the vital role of NRPC, in providing a very good platform for resolving
issues amicably and for reducing litigations. He urgedthe all the members to utilize
this forum for benefit of all.
15. HethankedHaryana Power Utilities for the efforts put by them in hosting this meeting
and for excellent arrangements for the comfortable stay of the participants.
16. Member Secretary, NRPC welcomed Additional Chief Secretary, Power, Haryana,
Chairperson, NRPC, other dignitaries and participants in the 41st NRPC meeting. He
thanked Haryana Power Utilities for making a good arrangement. He apprised the
Committee about TCC meeting, held on previous day, that there were thread bare
discussions on all the issues and consensus in most of the issues was arrived.
C O N F I R M A T I O N O F M I N U T E S ( N R P C )
A.2 Minutes of 40th meeting of NRPC

Minutes of 40th meeting of NRPC held on 28th October, 2017, were circulated vide
letter No. NRPC/Comml/209/RPC(40th)/2018/455-543dated 11th January, 2018.
Comments on the minutes have been received from NHPC, POWERGRID and NTPC
which were enclosed at Annexure-A1.1 and A1.2 and A1.3 respectively in the
agenda note.
NRPC confirmed the minutes with the amendments as suggested by TCC and
also confirmed the corrigendum to the minutes of 40th NRPC meeting issued
vide letter No. NRPC/Comml/209/RPC(40th)/2018/2485-2531dated 19th January,
2018.
B. OPERATIONAL ISSUES
B.1 Revised System Protection Scheme (SPS) for 765 kV Agra-Gwalior line.
TCC Deliberation
B.1.1 Based on the recommendations of TCC a separate meeting was convened on 07th
November 2017 comprising members from NRLDC, NRPC Sectt. and POWERGRID
for reviewing the revised logic of the scheme presented by POWERGRID in 140th
OCC meeting. The minutes of the meeting was attached to the agenda note as
Annexure-B1.1.In the said meeting POWERGRID was advised to explore for
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utilising the signals from circuit breaker (CB Open/ CB close) of both the ends of 765
kV Agra- Gwailor line for SPS.
B.1.2 POWERGRID informed that the circuit breaker (ON/ OFF) signal was being utilized
from Agra end in the logic. However, that from Gwalior end was not being utilized as
the purpose of the scheme was being served by utilizing the CB signal from one end.
B.1.3 Representative of NRLDC stated that even if the scheme was functioning properly in
normal circumstances there are chances that the scheme may not operate in case of
breaker lockout from Agra end and the line getting tripped from Gwalior end.
B.1.4 NLDC also stressed on utilizing CB signals from both the ends as Agra-Gwalior is an
important inter-regional transmission line and its implementation will make the
scheme even more reliable.
B.1.5 POWERGRID representative stated that though the purpose was being served with
the already implemented logic, POWERGRID will implement the logic utilizing the
CB signal from both the ends.
B.1.6 TCC recommend that POWERGRID will inform the logicwithinthe CB signal for
both the ends.
NRPC Deliberation
B.1.7 NRPC approved the recommendation of TCC.
B.2 System Study for Capacitor Requirement in NR for the year 2019-20.
TCC Deliberation
B.2.1 Member Secretary, NRPC informed the committee that issue of conducting the
capacitor requirement study at 11/33 kV level through CPRIfor 2018-19 was
discussed and approved in the 37th TCC and 40th NRPC meeting. He further informed
that CPRI has submitted their revised offer for the above said study and has quoted
consultancy charges of Rs. 55,00,000/- for the study for 2019-20 in addition to Rs.
10,00,000/- bill raised by themfor the study conducted for the period 2017-18.
B.2.2 MS, NRPC informed the Committee that NRPC Sectt. was negotiating with CPRI so
as to get the cost of the study as proposed by CPRI to be reduced.
B.2.3 He further informed the Committee that the Techno Economic Sub Group (TESG) of
PSDF hasraised certain queries on the proposal submitted for PSDF funding by
Haryana, UP, Punjab and J&K regarding capacitor installation by them. TESG has
asked the location wise details of the capacitor to be installed, study report of
DISCOMs based on which they have proposed the installation of capacitor, present
voltage profile, basis of cost estimate among other details. Concerned utilities were
requested to submit the details as desired by the TESG of PSDF (Minutes of the
meeting is attached as Annexure-III).
B.2.4 Representative of UP stated that DISCOMshavesubmitted the above stated capacitor
installation proposal directly to PSDF for funding without informing SLDC and STU
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about the same and because of which follow-up for the same could not be done by
them.
B.2.5 Representative of NRLDC also flagged the issue of bypassing of STU and SLDC by
other DISCOM which was not a good practice. MS, NRPC advised for following the
established hierarchy so as to avoid any such situation in future of non-informed STU
and SLDC regarding any work being proposed by their DISCOMs/ other utility.
NRPC Deliberation
B.2.6 NRPC agreed that the study shall be conducted at 11/33 kV level so as to obtain the
true requirement of capacitor and advised NRPC Sectt. to negotiate the cost of study
for 2018-19 with CPRI.
B.2.7 NRPC concurred with the deliberations of TCC and advised utilities to adhere to the
established hierarchy so that the operators of the grid are in knowledge of what was
happening in their system.
B.3 Reactive compensation at 220 kV and 400 kV level.
TCC Deliberation
B.3.1 MS, NRPC informed the Committeethat the following reactors were agreed in 39th
Meeting of SCPSPNR and thereafter were approved in 37th TCC and 40th NRPC
meeting:
a) TCR of capacity 500 MVAr at Kurukshetra 400 kV bus.
b) Bus Reactors at 30 no.of 220 kV sub-stations and 18 no of 400 kV level sub-
stations subject to the availability of space (Annexure-B3.1 to the Agenda
note). It was also agreed that these reactors shall be provided by the owner of
the substations.
B.3.2 He informed that the TCR of 500 MVAr at 400 kV Kurukshetra bus was approved by
the standing Committee in view of the prevailing high voltage conditions at
Kurukshetra which leads to curtailing power transfer capability through Champa-
Kurukshetra HVDC.
B.3.3 Representative of POWERGRID informed that the TCR at Kurukshetra was under
tendering stage and LoA for the same shall be placed by June 2018 with a
commissioning schedule of 24 months. He further informed that in view of the
prevailing high voltage condition at Kurukshetra, for the time being a reactor of 125
MVAr is being installed at Kurukshetrawhich will be commissioned by June 2018 and
another reactor of 80 MVAr shall also be installed by March 2018. It was informed to
the Committee that these reactors will provide a relief of about 10 kV at Kurukshetra.
B.3.4 CTU informed that in the Empowered Committee meetingit was suggestedto get the
reactors at 400 kV ISTS substationscommissionedthrough TBCB. However, these
reactors being important for maintaining the voltage level of NR grid at the earliest,
Ministry has been approached so as to allow POWERGRID to take the project rather
than going through TBCB.
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B.3.5 DTL informed that they have identified 6 substation of 220 kV and 1 substation of
400 kV (Mundka) voltage level for installation of reactors which shall be
commissioned by December 2019. He further stated that in the identified substations
for installation of reactor space constraint is therein most of the substations (GIS). On
conversion of other substations from AIS to GIS, 02 more substations could be
identified for installation of reactors.
B.3.6 PSTCL informed that they have submitted their proposal for installation of reactors
through PSDF funding.
All other utilities wererequestedto submit detailed action plan for the installation of
reactors.
NRPC Deliberation
B.3.7 NRPC concurred withthe deliberations of TCC and also requested NRPC Secretariat
to write to Ministry for expediting their decision regarding the commissioning of
reactors at 400 kV ISTS substations either through TBCB or through POWERGRID.
B.4 Down Stream network by State utilities from ISTS Station
S. Substation Downstream Schedule Planned system and

No network Implementation Status
requirement
1 400/220kV , 2 nos. bays utilized Commissioned LILO of 220kV Hiranagar-Jatwal

3x315 MVA under ISTS. line
Samba Balance 4 Nos to LILO 220kV Jatwal – Gladni line
LILO of 220kV Bishnha –
be utilized
Hiranagar D/c line
LoA has been issued and Material
has reached the site.
Targeted Completion – Nov 2018
2 400/220kV, 6 Nos. of 220 kV Commissioned 220kV New Wanpoh –Mirbazar
2x315 MVA bays to be utilized D/c line
New Wanpoh Targeted Completion – Nov 2018
3 400/220kV, 2 Nos. of 220 kV Commissioned 220 kV Charor- Banala D/c line

2x315 MVA bays to be utilized. (18km)
Parbati Pooling Targeted Completion- Oct’17
Anticipated – Mar’18
Station
Representative of HPSEB
informed that information would
be updated by HPPTCL whose
representative was not present.
4 400/220kV, 8 nos. of 220 kV Commissioned LILO of one circuit of Kaul-
2x500 MVA bays to be utilized Pehowa 220kV D/c line
Kurukshetra LILO of one circuit of Kaul-
Bastara 220kV D/c line
(GIS)
Work awarded with contractual
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requirement
completion date 02/01/2018.
Representative of HVPNL stated

that work was awarded but the
firm got bankrupt. The tendering
was in process and it was expected
to be awarded by March -2018.
Targeted Completion – March

2019.
He further stated that work for

LILO circuits shall be completed
by December-2018.
5 400/220kV, 3 nos. of 220 kV Bagpat- Baraut 220kV S/c Line

2x500 MVA downstream lines LILO of 220kV Muradnagar II -
Bagpat GIS to Shamli, Baghpat (PG) at Baghpat UP
Representative of UPPTCL stated
Muradnagar and
that it has severe RoW issue.
Bagpat Commissioned Bagpat(PG)-Modipuram New
commissioned. 220kV D/c-exp. by Oct.18
Balance 5 Nos. of
220 kV bays to be
utilized
6 400/220 kV, 2 nos. 220 kV LILO of 220 kV Khara- Shamli at

2x315 MVA downstream lines Saharanpur PG
Saharanpur commissioned. Saharanpur(PG)-Sarsawa (new)
220kV D/c
(Saharanpur (UP)
Commissioned Targeted Completion – April 2018
and Nanauta)
Balance 4 Nos. of
220 kV bays to be
utilized
7 400/220kV, Out of 6 bays, only 2 bays for 220 kV Dehradun –

2x315 MVA two bays used. Jhajra line
Dehradun Balance 4 bays to
be utilised. Commissioned one bay for proposed Naugaon S/s
2 bays for proposed S/s at Selakui
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requirement
8 400/220kV, 02 nos. 220kV Kotputli(PG) – Kotputli (RVPN)

2x315 MVA downstream lines 220kV S/c line (existing)
Kotputli commissioned on
27.05.2015. Kotputli(PG) – Manoharpur
Balance 2 Nos 220 (RVPN) 220kV S/c line (existing)
kV bays to be Kotputli(PG) – Bansur (RVPN)
utilized. Commissioned 220kV D/c line (completed
telemetry issue has been resolved
and load taken on 11.01.2018)
RVPN representative confirmed

and stated that lines have been
commissioned.
9 400/220kV, Partially utilized. 220kV S/c to Chaksu (existing)

2x500 MVA Balance 4 Nos 220 220kV S/c to Duni (existing)
Jaipur South kV bays to be 220kV S/c to Sez (existing)
220kV S/c to Goner (existing)
utilized.
220kV D/c to Vatika (completed
Commissioned and line charged on 11.05.17 and
12.05.17 and Telemetry issues has
been resolved.)
RVPN representative confirmed
and stated that lines have been
commissioned.
10 400/220 kV, 6 Nos 220 kV bays Commissioned 2 nos of bays utilized for Sohawal
2x315 MVA to be utilized. 220kV UP.
Sohawal
2 nos for Barabanki 220 kV s/s
under construction which is
expected to be completed by
March-2018.
2 nos of bay of utilized for 220kV

New Tanda-Sohawal line and
expected to be completed by April
-2018.
11 Shahjahanpur, Partially utilized. Commissioned One bay used for 220 kV

2x315 MVA Balance 5 Nos. of Shahjahnpur-Hardoi line
400/220 kV 220 kV bays to be commissioned.
2 no of bays for 220kV
utilized.
Shahjahnpur - Azimpur D/c line
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requirement
12 Jalandhar, 1x Partially utilized. Commissioned O/o C.E./TS/PSTCL/Patiala has

500 MVA Balance 2 Nos. of already conveyed to
400/220 kV 220 kV bays to be PGCIL/Jalandhar that there is no
utilized. requirement of additional 220kV
Lines for the time being. However,
it shall be kept in view for future
planning.
13 02 nos. bays at Partially utilized. Commissioned PSTCL informed that the 220 KV
Moga Balance 2 nos. of DC line from 400 KV PGCIL
220kV bays to be Moga to 220 KV Mehal Kalan is
utilized. expected to be completed by
28.02.2018
Hamirpur 04 nos. 220 kV 2x220 kV bays to be utilized for

400/220 kV 2x downstream lines connecting 220/132kV Kangoo
315 MVA Sub- commissioned substation of HPSEBL by 220
14 station under ISTS. Mar’18 kV Kangoo-Hamirpur D/c line.
(Augmentation Balance two bays to

by 3x105 MVA be utilised by
ICT) HPSEBL
220kV Kaithal(PG)- Neemwala

Kaithal 400/220 D/c line - Work awarded on
July 2017 (Shifting
kV 1x 315 25.10.2016. Tentative
15 of Transformer Commissioned completion date is 23.05.2018.
MVA Sub-
from Ballabhgarh). 220kV S/s Neemwala-Tenders
station
opened for NIT dated
23.05.2016.
Sikar RRVPNL representative stated
400/220kV, 2 Nos. of 220 kV that studies would be conducted
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1x 315 MVA bays to formulate how bays could be
S/s utilized.
Commissioned Work order has been awarded to

400/220kV for Anta-Kota M/s GE and expected to be
Kota Sub- 400 kV S/c line completed by March-18
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station (1 No. of of RRVPNL.
400 kV Bay) RRVPNL representative stated
Bay at 765kV that there was issue of forest
Anta is not clearance which has been
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requirement
ready, however resolved. It has been expected to

the work of be completed by March-18.
400kV S/C Kota
(PG)-Anta line is
under progress.
Bhiwani 6 nos. of 220kV HVPNL to update.

18 Commissioned
400/220kV S/s bays
Jind 400/220kV 6 nos. of 220kV HVPNL to update

19 Commissioned
S/s bays
Establishment of new 400/220kV substations in Northern Region:
Sl. Name of Substation MVA Expected Downstream connectivity

No. Capacity Schedule furnished by States
1 400/220kV Dwarka-I GIS 4x 500 Sep’18 DTL may update.
2 400/220kV Tughlakabad 4x 500 Oct’18

GIS
3 220/66kV Chandigarh GIS 2x 160 Feb’19 8 nos. of 66kV bays. UT

Chandigarh to update.
4 400/220kV Jauljivi GIS 2x315 December 2 bays for 220kV Almora-

2019 Jauljibi line
2 bays for 220kV

Brammah-Jauljibi line
5 400/220kV Sohna Road 2x500 May’19

GIS (Under
TBCB)
(8 bays)
6 400/220kV Prithla GIS 2x500 May’19 Two nos. of 220kV bays

(Under for Prithla(400)-Prithla
TBCB) (HVPNL) 220kV D/c line
Four nos. of 220kV bays
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Sl. Name of Substation MVA Expected Downstream connectivity

No. Capacity Schedule furnished by States
(8 bays) for LILO of existing

220kV Palwal–
RangalaRajpur D/c line at
Prithla (400) (FY 2019-
20)
Two nos. of 220kV bays

for 220kV Prithla (400)–
Sector-78, Faridabad S/s
D/c (FY-2020-21)
7 400/220kV Kadarpur GIS 2x500 May’19

(Under
TBCB)
(8 bays)
8 400/220kV Kala Amb GIS 7*105 TBCB HPSEBL has planned one
no. of 220kV D/c line
Commission from Kala Amb
ed (Jul’17) 400/220kV S/s to
220/132kV Kala Amb
S/s. Details for remaining

4 nos. of line bays may be
provided.
9 400/220kV Amargarh GIS 7X105 Oct’18 JKPDD to confirm for

(Under LILO of 220kV D/c
TBCB) Zainkote - Delina line at
Amargarh included.
(Sterlite Grid
planning to
prepone)
TCC Deliberations:
B.4.1 Representative from UPPTCL enquired whether the consent of States are being
taken in Standing Committee for complete utilization of all bays.
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B.4.2 MS, NRPC stated that this was the concern of all the States that the system is
approved in standing committee with the approval of respective states, but states
find difficult to match with the timeline set up for the upstreamsystemby
POWERGRID and clarified that this issue has been deliberated at length in
previous meeting.
B.4.3 He further informed the committee that as per the decisions in previous TCC/NRPC
meeting, NRPC Secretariat has already written a letter to CERC. He further stated
that in pursuance of the issue, NRPC Secretariat would submit a reminder to CERC.
NRPC Deliberations:
B.4.4 MS, NRPC briefed the Committee about the concern raised by the utilities. He
stated that due to delay in the commissioning of downstream network, utilities have
been charged heavily. He further told that it was the concern of all utilities as
upstream assets were utilized for strengthening of the Grid, it should be charged
through PoC mechanism.
B.4.5 Additional Chief Secretary (Power), Govt. of Haryana considered the concern
raised by utilities and emphasized that Project and Contract management is a
critical area. He further mentioned that there should be synchronism between States
planning their downstream network and POWERGRID planning its 400 kV
network. He told if states do not match the committed schedule with that of
POWERGRID then they would be always be behind, which should be avoided.
B.4.6 Representative of HPSEB reiterated their demand,that charges should be recovered
through the PoC mechanism instead of passing to utilities. He further informed the
committee that the matter was discussed in the validation committee meeting where
CERC representative had asked HPSEB to file the petition in CERC. Accordingly,
HPSEB is going to file a petition in CERC. He requested other utilities to join them
for the same
B.4.7 PCE-II, CEA stated that PoC mechanism is for all the regions hence NR
constituents should not take decision whether to include charges in PoC or not. He
further mentioned that this forum was not empowered to take a decision and it
should be brought up to CERC.
B.4.8 CE (GM), CEA informed the committee as per the CERC order till the
commissioning of the downstream elements, the utility responsible for delay shall
bear the charges.
B.4.9 MS, NRPC clarified to Committee that issue was already discussed in previous
TCC/NRPC meeting and it was decided that NRPC Secretariat would write a letter
to CERC regarding the issue.
B.4.10 He further told that a letter was written to CERC according to a decision taken in
previous TCC/NRPC meeting and citing the seriousness of issue NRPC Secretariat
should write a reminder letter to CERC.
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B.4.11 Committee agreed and approved the NRPC Secttto write a reminder letter to CERC
on the subject matter.
B.5 Database of protection settings

TCC Deliberation
B.5.1 MS, NRPC informed that 35th TCC/39th NRPC approved for engaging a third party
for development of Protection database with funding through PSDF in line with that
of ERPC and SRPC Protection database.
B.5.2 He further informed that based on the discussions held in 34th PSC meeting, a core
committee was formed to define the comprehensive Scope of the project comprising
members from the utilities of NR. First meeting of the group for defining the scope of
the project was held on 01.02.2018 and based on the inputs received from the
members, Draft Bidding Document has been prepared by the NRPC Secretariat and
will be circulated for the approval of the committee in its next meeting.
B.5.3 NRPC Secretariat has submitted the DPR of the project for PSDF funding based on
the draft bidding document and the proposal of NRPC has been recommended by the
techno Economic Sub Group of PSDF to the appraisal committee for its approval.
B.5.4 MS, NRPC informed that tender would be floated after finalization of the Bidding
Document by the committee with the execution period of the project being 18 months.
NRPC Deliberation
B.5.5 Additional Chief Secretary (Power), Govt. of Haryana, Sh. P K Das, queried about the
mode of data collection. It was informed that the relay settings data would be
collected physically by visiting the substations and not automatically.
B.5.6 He further queried if the format for collection was decided to which it was informed
that ERPC has already implemented the project and SRPC was implementing the
same and the format was available with them.
B.5.7 Sh. P. K. Das stated that if the data was to be collected physically in a format which
was already available with ERPC and SRPC, the execution period of the project
which was 18 months was not justified and the same process of data collection could
be done within 3-4 months.
B.5.8 PCE-II, CEA stated that relay setting data collection was not the only work involved
in the project. It also consists of the process of validation of the relay settings after
modeling the network and simulating the same. He stated that this process of
modeling the network and validation of the relay settings would take most of the time
and 18 months execution period was justified.
B.5.9 NRPC agreed to the above justification of PCE-II, CEA and advised NRPC secretariat
to proceed further with the proposal.
B.6 Issue of ownership of 3x105 MVA ICT replaced by POWERGRID in place of 250
MVA ICT at BBMB, Dehar
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TCC Deliberation
B.6.1 Member Secretary, NRPC informed that in the 37th TCC and 40th NRPC meeting,
representative of POWERGRID had informed that as per the approval of 30th
Standing Committee of Power System Planning of NR held on 19.11.2011,
POWERGRID had to install 2 x 63 MVAr Bus reactors and replace 250 MVA ICT
with 3 x 105 MVA ICT at BBMB, Dehar.
B.6.2 The commissioning detail of the said elements as under:
Sl. Description of Element Date of first DOCO date Remarks
No. time charging
1 3 x 105 MVA ICT 31.01.2017 at 02.02.2017 Successful Trial Run

20:05 hrs Certificate on hold by
NRLDC.
2 63 MVAr Bus Reactor - I 12.12.2016 at 14.12.2016 Certificate issued by

22:34 hrs NRLDC.
3 63 MVAr Bus Reactor - II 28.09.2017 Yet to be Test Charged only.

declared.
B.6.3 He informed that the successful trial run certificate of the 3 x 105 MVA ICT was put
on hold by NRLDC as BBMB has claimed the ownership of the ICT.
B.6.4 As advised by Chairperson, CEA in 40th NRPC meeting a separate meeting with the
affected party to resolve the issue of ownership of ICT at Deharwas held on
09.02.2018 at NRPC Secretariat wherein BBMB stated that the decision of their
management shall be intimated in the 38th TCC and 40th NRPC meeting.
B.6.5 Member (Power), BBMB stated that there were two issues related to the ICT installed
at BBMB Dehar by POWERGRID. One was the operational issue which has been
resolved as the O&M was to remain with BBMB whether or not the ownership is with
them or with POWERGRID. Second issue, he pointed out was that of the ownership.
He stated that the decision taken in the separate meeting held on 09.02.2018 at NRPC
Secretariat needs to be shared with the BBMB partner states so that they may decide
whether to obtain the ownership of the ICT by making upfront payment of the ICT
along with the 15% consultancy charges to POWERGRID or to allow POWERGRID
to own the ICT and let them recover their investment through PoC tariff. He requested
POWERGRID to share the details of the cost which needs to be paid by BBMB for
obtaining the ownership of the ICT
B.6.6 He further stated that the partner states of BBMB were raising concerns on the
increased PoC charges and they shall be given some time so as to decide on the issue
of owning the ICT.
B.6.7 MS, NRPC stated that PoC charges has increased for all the States as new elements
are getting added in to the grid. He stated that even if the element does not get
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installed in NR even then the charges of elements commissioned in other region are
also shared by all the utilities. He further informed that POWERGRID being a
revenue neutral body, only collects the charges for elements installed by them and in
this situation holding back the recovery of its investment through PoC tariff by
BBMB was not justified.
B.6.8 POWERGRID representative informed that all the details regarding the ICT cost has
already been submitted to BBMB and shall also be forwarded again. However, he
stated that till the time it was not being decided by BBMB and their partner states
whether to own the ICT, POWERGRID shall be allowed provisionally to charge the
tariff of the ICT through PoC mechanism. He stated that for past 8 months the tariff
was on hold and POWERGRDI was bearing losses for the same.
B.6.9 Member (Power), BBMB stated that if the issue was pending since last 8 months one
more month may be given to BBMB partner states and he assured that within this
period the issue would be decided by BBMB and their partner states and the issue
shall be resolved.
B.6.10 MS, NRPC requested BBMB to ensure that the issue gets resolved within 1 month.
He further stated that whenever in a forum BBMB agrees to any issue it should
consult its partner states beforehand so as to avoid any such situation in future.
NRPC Deliberation
B.6.11 NRPC concurred with the deliberations of TCC and advised BBMB and its partner
States to take their decision within 1 month and resolve the issue. BBMBand other
utilities were further advised that whenever any such proposal is brought by any of the
agency/such type of issues/ regarding source of funding/ ownership etc. shall be
discussed beforehand with their partner states.
B.7 LVRT issues of wind generation

TCC Deliberation
B.7.1 MS, NRPC informed that Technical Standards for Connectivity to the Grid,
(Amendment), regulations, 2012, provided for LVRT capability for Wind generating
units. However many of the generators commissioned after 15.04.2014 in Rajasthan,
are not LVRT compliant. Similarly, many generators with installed capacity 500 kW
or more and commissioned before 15.04.2014, also do not have LVRT facility.
B.7.2 He further informed the Committee that this agenda item was being considered in
various fora of NRPC for compliance of Regulations / orders by CEA/CERC but no
progress has been observed on compliance.
B.7.3 RVPNL representative again informed that the case for filing petition to RERC was
forwarded to REMC wing and will be filed at the earliest.
B.7.4 MS, NRPC stated that it was the responsibility of Rajasthan SLDC to ensure
compliance to various regulations and they need to impress upon the wind generators
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so as to install LVRT at the earliest. He requested Rajasthan to call all the Wind
turbine generators and sensitize them about the repercussions of non-availability of
LVRT for the grid security. It was also advised to call any agency which was in the
field of LVRT installation to sensitize the gathering of Wind generators.
B.7.5 Representative of NLDC stated that recently 2 incidents occurred wherein severe
disturbances were observed in the grid due to non-availability of LVRT in the Wind
generators. He requested Rajasthan SLDC to ensure earliest compliance to these
regulations.
B.7.6 MS, NRPC proposed that the must run status to the wind generators should only be
granted to LVRT compliant wind generators and non compliantwind generators shall
not be scheduled and it should be the responsibility of Rajasthan SLDC for the
implementation of the same. TCC agreed to the proposal and advised Rajasthan
SLDC to ensure compliance to the decision.
NRPC Deliberation
B.7.7 PCE-II, CEA queried Rajasthan about how in the first place the connectivity was
granted to these LVRT non-compliant wind generators. CE (GM), CEA also stated
that LVRT for wind generators getting commissioned after April 2014 and connected
at 66 kV and above voltage level is mandated in CEA connectivity standards.
B.7.8 Representative of NRLDC also stated that LVRT non compliance was a very serious
issue and shall be resolved at the earliest for ensuring security of the grid.
B.7.9 Sh. P. K. Dasstatedthat in future all the constituent States shall not give connectivity
to wind generators unless this compliance was fully met. He advised Rajasthan SLDC
to give a notice to all the LVRT non compliant wind generator stating the following :
“Wind generators providing them with 1 month time for compliance to LVRT, failing
to which Rajasthan SLDC would be constrained to deny scheduling to these
generators.”
B.7.10 NRPC concurred with and agreed to the TCC deliberations.
B.8 Connectivity to Naitwar Mori HEP (NMHEP) (2X30MW) of SJVN Ltd. in

Uttarakhand
TCC Deliberation
B.8.1 Representative of SJVN informed that CTU vide letter no. C/CTU/N/CON/338, dated
16.10.2017 had intimated the grant of connectivity as per FORMAT –CON-3 for
NMHEP, wherein the transmission system required for connectivity for NMHEP is as
under:
a) Naitwar Mori HEP - #Location of Mori 220/132 kV (PTCUL) substation 220
kV D/c (to be implemented by applicant along 220 kV bays at generating end).
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b) #Location of Mori 220/132 kV(PTCUL) – Dehradun 220 kV D/c (to be

implemented by PTCUL)
#Mori 220/132 kV substation is not required in the time frame of connectivity of

Naitwar Mori HEP.
B.8.2 He further informed that in one of the meeting held with Director (Projects), PTCUL
on 06.01.2018 (to expedite the construction of transmission line) it was informed that
PTCUL intends to change the location of 220/132 KV sub-station at Mori and
exploring the possibility to locate the sub-station to a new location somewhere near
the village Naugaon. The location of sub-station at Naugaon is also yet to be finalized
by them.
B.8.3 He stated that main civil package of NMHEP has already been awarded and the
Public Investment Board (PIB) while recommending the investment decision for
NMHEP has expressed their concern regarding transmission infrastructure beyond
Mori substation to be made available before CoD of the project.
B.8.4 He further informed that PTCUL has not made any official intimation either to SJVN
or to CTU regarding their decision to change the location of substation from Mori to
Naugaon and now with the location being changed primarily it would lead to delay in
the execution of the project and would also increase the cost of the project as the
location of new substation will require around extra 20 Km transmission line to be
laid.
B.8.5 Representative of PTCUL informed that they had tried to search land in Mori but
were not able to find any suitable site for the substation. Now, the land has been
identified in Naugaon area and the line from Naitwar Mori HEP switchyard to
Naugaon being a dedicated line to be used by SJVN, PTCUL was awaiting consent
from SJVN before taking the revised proposal to CTU and Standing Committee.
B.8.6 CTU informed that they have received comment from SJVN but not from PTCUL
regarding the decision to change the location of substation. He stated that with the
change in location the length of the transmission line from switchyard to Naugaon
substation will increase by approximately 20 Km not only for Naitwar Mori HEP but
also for other projects to be constructed. Mori substation has been indicated in the
plan as a pooling station and this change in location will increase the cost of all the
future projects.
B.8.7 MS, NRPC stated that because of the change in location of the substation, the project
was getting delayed which would also require all the approvals to be obtained afresh
for the changed location. In view of the above it was suggested that a Joint inspection
may be carried by PTCUL and SJVN so as to identify land in Mori to avoid the delay
in the implementation of the project.
NRPC Deliberation
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B.8.8 PTCUL representative informed that they had already surveyed Mori but were unable
to find the location suitable for the substation. However, it was informed that they
have identified 3 tentative locations suitable for the substation at Naugaon.
B.8.9 Additional Chief Secretary (Power), Govt. of Haryana, Sh. P K Das stated that ideally
Mori may be the best location for having the substation but practically if the land was
not available there was no benefit in delaying the project further and PTCUL should
be allowed to go forward with the location identified by them in Naugaon.
B.8.10 To this proposal of Sh. P. K. Das representative of SJVN stated that there main
concern was to avoid the delay in the project and they were not averse to the
substation to be built in Naugaon if the location was not available in Mori.
B.8.11 Representative of CTU stated that Mori being a pooling station, shifting the location
to Naugaon would increase the length of Transmission line from all the upcoming
projects by 20 Km. He further stated that SJVN and PTCUL shall be asked to carry
out joint inspection within 15 days and intimate their decision to CTU and
accordingly the same shall be taken at the Standing Committee meeting.
B.8.12 NRPC advised SJVN and PTCUL to carry out joint inspection within 15 days to
identify appropriate land at Mori and if no land could be identified at Mori the
proposal shall be moved forward with location as identified by PTCUL so as to avoid
any further delay in the project.
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B.9 Follow up of Major Decisions of NRPC.
1. Automatic Meter 13th NRPC Total SEM/locations as per LOA,

Reading (AMR) meeting held on phase-I:1250SEM/220 Locations
for SEMs 24th June phase-II:575SEM/150 DCU
2009.
• No. of Energy meters for
which AMR commissioned
: 1320 SEM/266 DCU
• Total locations for which
data is received: 150
Locations
• No. of Energy meters for
which data is being received
at NRLDC: 1065 SEM
Percentage availability of data:
82% on SEM basis and 73% on
location basis
In the 139th OCC meeting on the

issue of provision of the
prospective plan of 5 minute
scheduling in the AMR,
POWERGRID representative
expressed their inability to get
modifications done for 5 minute
scheduling They further stated
that once the regulation is notified
they will take the further
necessary action.
2. Provision of Bus Provision of Bus Out of 17 no. reactors at 15
Reactors in Reactors in locations, 12 no. reactors at 10
Northern Region Northern Region locations have been
to Control Over to Control Over Commissioned. The status of
Voltages Voltages remaining 05 reactors was as
under;
Nathpa-Jhakri (1x80 MVAr):
SJVN had informed that bays
would be ready by June,17.
However, due to peak
generation in that period, shut-
down may not be available.
Therefore, the reactor would be
commissioned by June 2018.
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Chamera-I (1x125 MVAr):

NHPC had informed that
Commissioning was expected by
March,2018.
Parbati-II (1x125 MVAr) and
Parbati-III (1x80 MVAr):
NHPC informed that there is no
space at Parbati-III and as such
reactors will be installed at
Parbati- II. Reactors at Parbati-II
will be commissioned along with
the commissioning of the project
in 2018-19. The case for
purchase of reactor is under
tendering process.
3. 400 kV Reactors 29th NRPC • RVPNL: Commissioning
meeting held of Reactors at Hindaun by 1st
in September week of March 2018 and Merta
2013 has been commissioned.
4. 2X63 MVAR Bus Approved in 30th • POWERGRID informed
reactor and Standing that one reactor has been
replacement of Committee of commissioned in December
250 MVA Trf. Power System 2016.
with Planning of NR Other reactor was damaged
315 MVA Trf. at held on during transportation and would
Dehar Power 19.11.2011 be commissioned by June 2017.
House by
POWERGRID.
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5. Unified Real Time Approved in • Total scope is PMUs for 115

Dynamic State 27th NRPC S/S. Out of which, for 113S/S
Measurement meeting held PMUs has been dispatched.
(URTDSM) on 13th July,
Scheme. 2012 & 30th • PMUs for 108 S/S are installed
November, &commissioned. PMUs for 91
2012 S/S are integrated with
NRLDC.
Out of 6 Analytic Software
which are being developed by
IIT Bombay, 4 have been already
tested, 1 is under testing and 1 is
under development which will be
completed by March,2018.
TCC Deliberations :
MS, NRPC requested
POWERGRID to share the
analytics of software with
constituent. He further suggested
to POWERGRID for holding a
separate meeting to discuss the
results obtained during the
testing of softwares and to
deliberate the issues related to
PMU.
NPC representative stated that it
was decided initially to develop
analytics in co-ordination with
NPC, CTU and POSOCO.
MS, NRPC stated that
representatives from NPC should
also be associated with the
meeting.
6. Power evacuation 28th Standing POWERGRID informed that the
from Dulhasti Committee project was Commissioned in
Power Station, January 2018.
Kishtwar (J&K) –
Construction of
2nd 400 kV line
7. Transmission POWERGRID informed that
system associated Commissioning of RAPP-Kota
with RAPP- section was expected by
7&8. September 2017. It was delayed
as forest stretch had now been
converted to wild life sanctuary.
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8. Transmission 33rd Standing POWERGRID had informed that

system associated Committee completion schedule of
with Kishenganga Meeting held Transmission system associated
HEP. Kishenganga On 23/12/2013 with Kishenganga HEP had been
– delayed due to unrest in
Amargarh 220 kV Kashmir.
D/c Kishenganga – The revised schedule was:
Wagoora 220 kV • Kishenganga – Wagoora
D/c 220kVD/c line - (Mar.,18)
• Kishenganga – Amargarh
220kV D/c line – (November,17)
NHPC informed that
Kishenganga HEP would be
commissioned by March, 2018.
POWEGRID representative
informed that lines have been
charged but any letter regarding
the allocation of Power has not
been received. He further
requested PDD, J&K regarding
status of second circuit of Dalina
– Zainkote D/C line.
Representative from PDD, J&K
stated second circuit of Dalina –
Zainkote D/C line will be
commissioned by March, 2018.
9. Fiber Optic based 18th NRPC POWERGRID informed that
communication meeting held Work on all packages would be
system on 27th completed by August 2017.
in NR and November,
Additional 2010 and 28th
OPGW NRPC meeting
connectivity in held
Northern Region in 22nd March,
under 2013
fiber optic
expansion project
10. Rectification of 27th NRPC Would be completed by October
deficiencies meeting held 2017.
coming in November
out of Basic 2013
Protection Audit
carried out by
CPRI in
association with
POWERGRID
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11. Third party 27th NRPC Only UPPTCL had not submitted
Protection meeting held their action plan. UPPTCL: the
audit of intra-state on 30th action plan would be submitted
system / balance November, shortly.
system not 2012.
covered in
Basic Protection
Audit
12. Planning, In the 34th Updated status:
procurement NRPC DTL:- Delivery has been
and deployment of meetings 20th completed. Training to be
Emergency March, 2015 completed by September 2017.
Restoration PSTCL:-Supply expected by
System. October, 2017.
UPPTCL:-02 nos. of ERS have
been received.
RRVPNL:- Representative of
RRVPNL stated that they were
procuring the spare tower in
place of ERS.
MS, NRPC told that ERS needs
to be procured as spare towers
were not solution for
contingencies.
SE (C) stated that it is mandatory
to buy ERS for the compliance of
CEA regulatory norms.
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MS, NRPC requested RRVPNL

to review their decision of not
procuring ERS and asked
representative of RRVPNL to
pursue the Management for
procuring ERS.
HVPNL:-Earlier it was informed
that in place of ERS, spare
towers worth Rs. 2 Crore would
be procured. In 138th OCC
meeting, it was informed that the
management was reviewing the
issue of procurement of ERS.
HVPNL representative stated
that they would be procuring the
ERS. He further stated that
tender would be floated shortly.
PTCUL:-Tendering is under
process.
HPSEBL:–Discussions being
held with vendor. Suitability of
ERS for critical locations is
being explored. Discussions not
concluded.
BBMB:-Partner states have
agreed to provide the ERS as and
when required by BBMB.
J&K:-Order has been placed for
02 No. Of ERS.
B.10 Replacement of old S900 RTUs

TCC Deliberations
B.10.a) Member Secretary, NRPC informed the Committee that S 900 RTUs are required to
be replaced on priority basis as decided in 35th TCC & 39th NRPC meetings. In
12thTeST meeting, POWERGRID had informed that after due approval from
management for procurement of new RTUs, MoU/Agreement for the same would
be sent to Constituents within 15 days for signing and after signing of MOU,
POWERGRID will float the NIT.
B.10.b) POWERGRID representative informed that they had sent MOU/Agreement to be
signed between POWERGRID & Constituents (Central/ State Sector) for
procurement of RTUs under deposit/consultancy basis. The signing of
MOU/Agreement by constituents may be expedited so that NIT may be published
for procurement of RTUs at the earliest
B.10.c) NHPC representative informed that agreement has a clause of wait for 2 years after
advance payment which needs to be looked into.
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B.10.d) TCC advised that all the utilities should sign the agreement within one month and
NRPC Sectt will facilitate the same.
NRPC Deliberations
B.10.e) NRPC noted the deliberations held in TCC and advised all concerned utilities to
submit signed MOU and agreement to POWERGRID so that POWERGRID can
start procurement at the earliest and replacement of RTUs before expiry of present
AMC contract, as per the decisions.
B.10.1 Training program for STU personnel on OPGW related aspects:

TCC Deliberations
B.10.1.a) Member Secretary, NRPC informed the Committee members that the training
program for STU personnel on OPGW related aspects was held in November’17
as approved by TCC/NRPC. TCC members appreciated POWERGRID and NRPC
Secttfor their efforts to organise this capacity building training and advised NRPC
Sectt. toarrange such trainings in future also.
NRPC Deliberations
B.10.1.b) NRPC noted the TCC deliberations.
B.10.2 Training for EMS application:
TCC Deliberations
B.10.2.a) Member Secretary, NRPC informed the Committee members that in the 37th TCC
and 40th NRPC meeting held on 27th and 28th October 2017, training programme
on EMS training was approved.
B.10.2.b) Accordingly NRPC secretariat had placed order on SIEMENS for hands on
Training on EMS applications at NR SLDCs.
B.10.2.c) M/s SIEMENs had completed EMS Training at Delhi, SLDC and BBMB, SLDC
B.10.2.d) Member Secretary, NRPC informed that EMS Training at Haryana, Punjab and
HP SLDCs was scheduled to be completed by March/April 2018. For other
SLDCs the training would be completed by April/May, 2018.
B.10.2.e) UPPTCL representative requested for training dates in UP. Member Secretary,
NRPC informed that Training at UP, SLDC will be in First week of April, 2018
NRPC Deliberations
B.10.2.f) NRPC noted the TCC deliberations.
B.11 OPGW connectivity at NHPC Power Stations under Central Sector scheme
B11.1 URI I Power Station:
B.11.1.a) NHPC representative informed that in 37th TCC and 40th NRPC meeting held on
27th and 28th October 2017, POWERGRID had assured to complete OPGW
rectification work of URI-I by November 2017. Further in the 12thTeST meeting
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held on 22.12.2017, POWERGRID informed that the rectification work was

delayed due to snowfall. He informed that OPGW work had not been
commissioned till date.
B.11.1.b) POWERGRID representative informed that OPGW has not been commissioned
however the data was flowing through PGCIL Telecom fiber. POWERGRID
informed that the OPGW work would be completed within 10 days.
B11.2 URI II Power Station:
B.11.2.a) Member Secretary, NRPC informed the members thatin 37th TCC and 40th NRPC
meeting held on 27th and 28th October 2017POWERGRID agreed to deploy the
team for URI II work after completion of Kishenpur-
th
Dulhastilink.NRPCSectt.receiveda mail dated 5 Feb,2018 by POWERGRID
that, POWERGRID was planning to deploy AMC vendor M/s Telegence India for
laying of OPGW on this link (Uri-I to Uri-II) from 15.02.2018. POWERGRID
also requested NHPC to instruct URI officials for taking up with District
Administration for providing necessary support during resolution of ROW issues.
AccordinglyNRPCSectt. vide letter dated 7th Feb,2018 requested
Commissioner/Secretary, PDD, J&K to provide required support from District
Administration for the work
Member Secretary NRPC requested POWERGRID to update the status.
B.11.2.b) POWERGRID representative informed that gangs had been mobilized. However,
due to shelling from Pakistan side, the work could not be executed. Once shelling
stops work would be completed within 2 months.
B11.3 Bairasiul, Sewa-II and Parbati-III:
TCC Deliberations
B.11.3.a) NHPC reprsentative submitted that Commissioning of OPGW at Bairasiul and
Sewa-II was assured by POWERGRID by November 2017 in 37th TCC and 40th
NRPC meeting held on 27th and 28th October 2017. However in the 12th TeST
meeting held on 22.12.2017, timeline informed for commissioning the OPGW at
Bairasiul and Sewa-II Power Station was February 2018. It was also informed
that commissioning of OPGW at Parbati-III Power Station shall be done by June
2018.
B.11.3.b) POWERGRID representative informed that Bairasiul, Sewa-II would be
commissioned by March 2018, while Parbati-III would be commissioned by
June,2018 .
NRPC Deliberations
B.11.3.c) NRPC noted the TCC deliberations and requested POWERGRID to take all
necessary action for completion of the work within the time line agreed in TCC
meeting.
B.12 Non availability of data from major PSTCL Sub-stations
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B.12.1 NRLDC representative informed that data from critical PSTCL substations like 400
kV Talwandisaboo, Muktsar and 400 kV Nakodar was not available at NRLDC since
long. It was due to faulty/burnt Cards of Communication equipment at 220
kV Moga sub-station of PSTCL. Cards have burnt at least Eight (08) times in last 2
years. However, no action has been taken by PSTCL.
B.12.2 NRLDC also informed that PSTCL had only replaced earthing instead of third party
audit (by SAMEER - Govt. of India) as discussed during the 11thTeST meeting. After
the discussion in last meeting, cards has burnt 2 more times at Moga 220kV (PSTCL)
and caused non-receipt of at least 5-6 sub-station data routed through that direction.In
its 12th TeST meeting held on 22.12.2017, the TeSTSub-committee expressed its
concern on non-availability of telemetry from a number of stations due to this issue.
The sub-Committee advised representative of PSTCL to get the earthing audited by
third party at the earliest
B.12.3 In the meeting, NRLDC informed that Data was being received from above PSTCL
stations w.e.f. 21.02.2018. PSTCL representative informed that the third party audit
of earthing had been completed and reports were submitted to POWERGRID.
POWERGRID informed that they were studying the report and further required
action, if any, would be intimated to PSTCL and NRPC Sectt.
NRPC Deliberations
B.12.4 NRPC noted the TCC deliberations. Member Secretary NRPC requested PSTCL and
other constituents to ensure 100 percent telemetry from all stations.
B.13 Shifting of Rihand-III to WR
B.13.1 NRLDC representative gave the background as given below:
As per discussion at NRPC level in 31st Standing committee meeting and in 29th
standing committee of WR it was decided that Rihand-III(Unit#5 & 6 =2*500MW)
would be shifted from NR to WR by connecting through Rihand(III)-Vindhyachal PS
2XS/C lines after commissioning of 3000 MW HVDC Champa-Kurukshetrabipole to
relieve line loadings in Singrauli-Rihand-Anpara complex. Since Champa-
Kurukshetrabipole is in operation since Sept 2017, shifting of Rihand-3 to WR was
proposed by POSOCO, a set of guidelines were finalized based on studies and the
same were circulated to all concerned.
Based on the studies it was decided that synchronization shall be done when angular
separation between Rihand and Vindhyachal Pool is minimum (within 3 degrees),
with Rihand bus leading because power was supposed to flow from NR(Rihand-III) to
WR(Vindhyachal). Further, as there was shortage of oil used for start-up purpose and
since bus sectionaliser was available at Rihand end, it was decided that the
changeover be done online without taking the units out.
B.13.2 After checking of station auxiliaries, lines were idle charged from both ends one by
one to ensure that lines and terminal equipments are healthy. Confirmation regarding
protection setting and PLCC tuning was taken from both ends.
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(i) As per the guidelines circulated, first Synchronization was attempted on 27-
Nov-2017. Lines were charged from Vindhyachal PS end. However, lines could
not be synchronized at Rihand Stage-III end because of problem with the
synchronizing trolley at NTPC Rihand end & hence exercise was postponed.
(ii) Second attempt was initiated on 28-Nov-2017. 400 kV Rihand (III)-
Vindhyachal PS Ckt-1 was idle charged from Vindhyachal PS at
12:06Hrs/28.11.2017. In order to reduce the angular separation between
Rihand&Vindhyachal:
• HVDC Champa-KurukshetraBipole power flow was increased (WR to
NR)
• HVDC Vindhyachal back to back power order was changed from 100
MW (NR to WR) to 250 MW towards NR
• Power order on HVDC Rihand-Dadri was reduced
• Generation in Rihand was increased
B.13.3 Shifting of Rihand Stage-III units (Unit No-5, 6) in the online mode was successfully
executed with coordination in real time between POSOCO, NTPC and Powergrid
(WRTS-II).
After shifting of Rihand stage-III units, NTPC reported problem of excessive

Vibrations in GTs of Rihand stage III when RihandDadri one pole was operating in
ground return mode. In 142nd OCC Meeting, actions taken by utilities for resolving
this issue of vibrations in Rihand stage-III units were discussed:
• NLDC requested planners, CTU, CEA (NPC) to provide assistance for studies in this
regard and asked them to share their experiences regarding the same.
• NRLDC requested NTPC for old data (including information about any vibrations)
when only few units of Rihand (say Rihand-I/ Rihand-II) were commissioned and
Rihand-Dadri HVDC bipole was operated in monopolar operation. Further,
information regarding earthing grid at Rihand 1, 2 & 3 was also asked.
• In this regard, NTPC representative informed that they would get assessment of
earthing system at Rihand soon.
B.13.4 NTPC asked about the start-up procedure in case of grid failure. For the start-up
procedure for Rihand-I, II & Stage-III Units in case of failure of any of Western/
Northern region, it was decided in 142nd OCC Meeting that normalisation process
may be started with extension of power using bus coupler at Rihand after taking
consent of NRLDC similar to using AC bypass link at VindhyachalBtB as decided
earlier.
B.13.5 NRLDC representative also informed the house that Shifting of Rihand-3 has helped
in relieving line loadings in Rihand-Singrauli-Anpara complex. However, N-1
contingency of lines from Anpara (765 kV Unnao, Obra, Mau, Sarnath D/C) may still
result in critical loadings of other lines in the complex. Therefore, early
commissioning of 765 kV Anpara D – Unnao needs to be expedited to relieve line
loadings in this complex.
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B.13.6 NRLDC representative also mentioned that since, Rihand-III is now connected to
WR, outage of inter-regional lines (Rihand III – Vindhyachal pool) would be taken
care by NLDC in consultation with NRLDC and WRLDC. In case of constraint in
Vindhyachal complex, the curtailment of Rihand stage 3 would be done similar to
other stations in Vindhyachal complex. Scheduling of Rihand-III would be continued
by NRLDC.
B.13.7 NRLDC representative informed that based on approvals in OCC, the System
Restoration Procedure has been modified to include utilisation of Rihand stage 3 and
Rihand stage 2 bus coupler in the similar manner as AC bypass at Vindhyachal back
to back.
B.13.8 However, NRLDC representative emphasized that the issue of higher vibration is
Rihand stage 3 units during mono pole ground return operation of Rihand-Dadri
HVDC need to be addressed. He said that as decided in OCC meeting, NTPC shall
come out with past data as well as grounding measurements at all the stages of
Rihand.
B.13.9 NTPC representative informed the forum that as per report from field officers, they
have no past history such vibrations at any of the stages during mono pole ground
return HVDC operation.
B.13.10 TCC recommended formation of a committee with members from POWERGRID,

CTU, CEA, NTPC, POSOCO and NRPC to look into the issue of high vibrations
during mono pole ground return operation for corrective actions.
NRPC deliberation
B.13.11 NRPC noted the delibration held in TCC and approved the formation of Committee
recommend by TCC.
B.14 AGC Implementation
TCC deliberation
B.14.1 NRLDC representative informed the house that Hon’ble CERC order dated 13th
October 2015, highlighted the need for implementing Automatic generation control in
machines. In this direction, first pilot project of Automatic Generation Control (AGC)
in India has been officially commissioned by POSOCO and NTPC. This pilot project
is controlling the generation of Dadri Stage 2 (980 MW IC) with reference to the Area
Control Error (ACE) of Northern Region from 04.01.2018 onwards.
B.14.2 Further, Hon’ble CERC has asked POSOCO to replicate similar AGC pilot projects in
other regional grids. Implementation of AGC is crucial at this juncture as it would
help adding of renewable capacity in the grid which is happening at an unprecedented
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scale and speed (both large-scale grid connected projects as well as several distributed
energy resources primarily in the form of rooftop solar).
B.14.3 The NRLDC representative also mentioned that there is separate agenda item from
NPC on the subject and a detailed presentation on AGC would be made on that
agenda.
B.14.4 TCC noted the development.
NRPC deliberation
B14.5 NRPC noted the information
B.15 Summer Preparedness – 2018

B.15.1 NRLDC representative gave a detailed presentation on the summer preparation. He
gave regional and statewise trends of Demand (MW) and Energy for last 4-5 years
and based on these drew conclusions on rise in demand with rise in temperature,
demand increase trajectory etc. He also put forth the issues specific to
summer/monsoon months for Northern Region. He stated that the summer and
monsoon months are very crucial months for system in view of highest demand being
met in NR during these months. He presented the high temperature forecast by Indian
Meteorological Department (IMD) for summer months wherein about 1-2 degrees
higher temperatures have been predicted in NR while the same around 1 degree
higher in the rest of country. He also mentioned that the hydro generation at present is
lower than the past year though reservoir position is almost similar to last year. The
representatives of hydro stations also informed that house that this these is less snow
and therefore hydro generation is on lower side.
B.15.2 He mentioned following characteristics of summer/monsoon power system operation
of NR:
– High Demand
– High loading/ High Reactive Power Requirement
– High hydro generation
– Thunderstorm during summer
– Silt during Summer/Monsoon
– Transfer Capability violations
On each of the above points, NRLDC gave past statistics to highlight the issues. He
also stated that fuel shortage this year combined low hydro generation could be
difficult and therefore, requested all the utilities to buildup enough fuel stock for
increasing the internal generation in NR and for also for keeping reserves in the each
of control area.
B.15.3 He also mentioned following Action plans:

– Meticulous load forecasting and portfolio management
– TTC/ATC calculations, keeping margins, Network
– Tower strengthening, New network commissioning
– Keeping fuel reserves
– Keeping reserves (generation in control areas for contingencies)
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Following was agreed during the meeting
B.15.4 Weather Monitoring & Load forecast

All the entities would endeavor to forecast their loads meticulously in advance for
their portfolio management plans and also on day ahead and real time basis taking
into weather into account. They would also be utilizing the IMD (in coordination with
POSOCO) developed dedicated website for Northern region (link:
http://amssdelhi.gov.in/NRLDC/main/MAIN.html) for getting weather warnings and
other meteograms, Radar images etc. The impact of lunar eclipse on 31.01.2018 and
consequent very large deviation from schedule by states (specially of Southern
Region) was also discussed to highlight the impact of social events of electricity
consumptions and therefore factoring them in load forecasting is essential.
B.15.5 TCC also advised the utilities to take actions for reducing the forecast errors. J&K
PDD was also requested to start sharing forecast with NRLDC at the earliest as
mandated in IEGC and agreed to earlier TCC/NRPC meetings.
B.15.6 Thunderstorm/Load crash during summer:

Based on past data presented by NRLDC on load crash, tower collapses and very
longer time for revival of lines, the TCC emphasized:
• Tower strengthening and keeping availability of Emergency Restoration System
(ERS)
• ERS being better than keeping spare tower as same still need longer time of revival of
lines.
• SLDCs to take quick actions to back down state generators. Necessary directions
would be given to generating stations to follow the directions of SLDC meticulously
without delay.
B.15.7 Hydro Generation and Silt monitoring:

Based the presentation of NRLDC on past cases of silt issues and its impact of the
order of 6000-7000 MW in NR, TCC decided following:
• Action for Generator
– Better forecasting of silt [Advance information]
– Reduction of Generation/Tripping of Units as per protocol (Staggering
of units)
– Slow ramping down of generation on the units (rather than quick
stoppage) to be closed as per protocol.
• Action by SLDC/Constituents
– Generation reserve to be maintained
• In their state generators
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•Advance Contract with Other State/Traders for trades in

emergency
– Preparation and Execution of Load management action plan
B.15.8 ATC/TTC of state control area

NRLDC representative presented statewise Transfer capability assessment and likely
issues or constraining points and requested each SLDC to carry out the exercise along
with continuous updations of the study case (model). TCC advised that in line with
the CERC regulations each SLDC will carryout following:
i. Updation of basecase
• New Generation/lines/ICT/LILO/Reactor/Capacitor
• New Node wise load/load shift if any
• Network configuration changes e.g. line kept open at 220kV or
132kV, Bus split or any other contingent arrangement
ii. Assessment of TTC/ATC/RM
iii. Constraints observed and its action plan for mitigation
iv. Share the basecase for co-ordination with NRLDC along with all the network details,
LTA/MTOA etc.
TTC/ATC of summer 2018 and constraints expected this summer were noted by TCC
as given below:
TTC during
State Constraints expected Actions required
Summer-18 (MW)
• N-1 non-compliance at • ICTs at Dhuri and Rajpura
High generation Amritsar, Ludhiana need to be revived at the
TTC: 6700 &Makhu. earliest.
ATC: 6100
• Overloading of • Increase in generation at
Two units of Ropar underlying network at 220kV level would help in
and all units of Ludhiana and meeting high demand & also
Punjab Bhatinda considered Amritsar improve voltage profile.
out (as per letter • 220kV Amritsar- • New 220kV lines may be
from PSPCL dtd Verpal D/C & planned to relieve the loading
10.1.18)
220/132kV Verpal on ICTs and to meet loads
TTC: 6100
ATC: 5500 ICTs are critically through paths that are less
loaded in the basecase loaded.
itself
• N-1 non-compliance at • 220kV Hisar(PG)-Hisar(IA),
Fatehabad, Abdullapur 220kV lines from Lula ahir,
TTC: 7500 and Panipat 220kV Abdullapur-Jorian and
Haryana
ATC: 6900 • 220kV lines from other 132kV lines are heavily
Hisar, Lula ahir, loaded and need to be strictly
Abdullapur etc. are monitored.
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heavily loaded • Alternate arrangement for

reducing loading on above
lines need to be expedited.
• N-1 contingency of • Expedite commissioning of
(Generation :
Phagi, Jodhpur 3rd ICT at Phagi
4890MW)
TTC: 6200 &Merta ICTs • New ICT to be planned at
ATC: 5600 • Constraint for Jodhpur and Akal
Rajasthan evacuation of power • Expedite commissioning of
(Generation : from Rajwest 400kV Rajwest-Barmer # 2
6390MW) • High loading of ICTs bays at Barmer end by
TTC: 5000
at Akal and need for RRVPNL
ATC: 4400
reactive power support
• N-1 non-compliance at • Early restoration of 400kV
Bamnauli ICTs Mundka-Bawana D/C
Badarpur generation
considered • Loading on 220 kV • Loading on 220 kV Harsh
TTC: 5100 Ballabhgarh-BTPS, Vihar - PreetVihar -
ATC: 4800 220 kV Mandola- Patparganj to be monitored
Delhi
No generation at Burari, 220 kV closely and new arrangements
Badarpur considered Mundka-Peeragarhi, to feed the load to be worked
TTC: 4800 220 kV BTPS- on
ATC: 4500
SaritaVihar is not N-1
compliant.
UP TTC ATC • N-1 non-compliance • Monitor and ensure N-1
Own (MW) (MW at Lucknow (PG), compliance at Lucknow(PG),
Gen. ) Obra and Azamgrah Obra, Azamgarh, Moradabad,
(MW ICTs Gorakhpur (PG) etc.
) • 220kV Mainpuri PG- • Expedite commissioning of
9950 8500 8300 Mainpuri , 220 kV underlying n/w at recently
9750 8800 8100 Agra (PG)-Ferozabad, commissioned 765kV &
9650 8600 8000 220kV Bainkutnpur- 400kV stations to reduce
Uttar 9450 9000 8500 Dohna, 220kV loading on other heavily
Pradesh 9000 9100 8800 Sarnath-Gajokhar, , loaded lines and ICTs
Low voltages: 220kV Gorakhpur PG- • Ensure sufficient generation
400kV Gorakhpur, 220kV and units on bar so as to meet
lines from demand adequately without
Agra(UP),Muradnag
Baikunthpur etc. are violating ATC
ar(UP), Muradnagar heavily loaded
New(UP),
Sultanpur& several
220kV nodes.
With gas generation • 400/220kV ICT at • To relieve high loading at

TTC: 1600MW Kashipur is N-1 non- Kashipur ICTs, maintain high
Uttara
ATC: 1450MW compliant (at much generation at Shravanti and
khand
lower import if gas Gamma Infra gas stations so
Without gas stations at Shravanti as to supply power to
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generation and Gamma Infra are Mahuakhe from these stn.s

TTC: 1300MW out) instead of Kashipur ICTs
ATC: 1150MW • 220kVRishikesh- • Expedite 220kV lines from
Haridwar, 220kV Dehradun PG (bays are ready
Roorkee-Roorkee, 132 since long)
kV Lines from
Srinagar, Dehradun,
Kashipur, Pithoragarh
etc. are heavily loaded
• N-1 contingency of • Plan new lines and ICTs in
ICTs at Kunihar leads 220kV level at Baddi,
to the critical Kuniharetc so as to relieve
overloading of the loading on existing lines and
other ICTs. ICTs
• High loading of 220 • Providing advance
TTC: 950MW kV Baddi-Kunihar, information about silt outages
Himachal
ATC: 800MW
Pradesh 220kV Nallagarh-
Baddi, 132kV
Kunihar-Solan
• Loading on the single
220/132 kV ICT at
Hamirpur is around
90%.
• Expedite commissioning of
400kV Samba- AmargarhD/C
• N-1 contingency of with underlying
Wagoora ICTs network at Amargarh
Jammu & TTC: 1800 • High loading of • Underlying network at New
Kashmir ATC: 1500 underlying network at Wanpoh should be expedited
Wagoora&Kishenpur • Kishenganga HEP should be
expedited along with
corresponding evacuation
lines
B.15.9 TCC advised to all entities to carryout planning for reducing bottlenecks so that
system operates safely during high demand period. All the entities agreed to take
action and also advise the respective SLDC to be very vigilant and take proactive
action to avoid operation with N-1 non compliance.
B.15.10 Reactive Power and voltage Management:

NRLDC representative presented the past year voltage profile and it was observed
that during the last summer, EHV grid voltage profile has been more or less
satisfactory except for some locations e.g. Kashmir valley, Western UP and 220 kV
Nodes in Punjab. Therefore, TCC was of the view that voltage profile would remain
satisfactory during this summer as well but advised all utilities as below:
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v. Switching ON Capacitor/Switching OFF reactor as per system requirement

vi. Tap Optimization at 220/132kV/66/33 kV by respective state control area based
on scatter plots of ICTs, offline studies, NRPC RE account etc.
vii. Dynamic reactive support from Generator as per their capability curve.
viii. Synchronous condenser operation [in case water can be stored]
ix. SCADA Displays for better visualization
B.15.11 Maintenance of reserves

NRLDC representative presented large outage not only from silt issue in NR but also
due to contingencies in different generations complexes such as N-1-1 non-
compliance of Bara TPS/Lalitpur TPS/Anpara-C&D complex, Paricha TPS in Uttar
Pradesh, N-1-1 non-compliance of Kawai-Kalisindh-Chhabra complex in Rajasthan,
Evacuation constraints due to tower collapse such as that of 400 kV Jhajjar-Dhanonda
D/C during last year(still not revived).
Therefore, to meet any sudden contingency, there is need that all the generating
stations / state control area should maintain spinning reserves that can be quickly
utilized to balance the load-generation. The maintaining of reserves have also been
mandated by CERC.
B.15.12 TCC agreed with following suggested measures:
i. Proper forecasting of load and planning for load management

ii. Increasing the internal generation within state control area
iii. Making power purchases from the market through bilateral Power Exchange
transactions to cover for the shortfall.
iv. Re-starting of units under reserve shutdown at state as well as Inter-state level
through appropriate transactions in advance (before all spinning reserves are
consumed) so that necessary reserves are maintained all the time.
B.15.13 Defense mechanism

TCC agreed Following actions smooth operation of grid during upcoming summer
season:
i. States to maintain reserves at 50% of their largest size generating unit to take care
of contingencies in the system and also in line with the CERC roadmap on
operationalization of reserves in the country. Forecasted or projected load and
generation availability for peak MW as well as peak day energy requirement.
ii. Fuel availability at generating stations and maintaining Reserves in the system
iii. Silt Forecasting and handling deviation from schedule by hydro dominant States
iv. All state utilities to procure at least two (2) Emergency Restoration Systems (ERS)
to take care of transmission tower failures and minimize outages on this account.
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v. Frequency excursion: Staggering of loads to prevent spikes in the system frequency

at hourly boundaries on account of disconnection of three phase supply to rural
areas.
NRPC Delibration
B.15.14 NRPC agreed with the delibration of the TCC
B.16 Winter grid operation 2017-18 (Agenda by NRLDC)

B.16.1 NRLDC representative gave a detailed presentation of winter grid performance
covering various issues encountered in grid operation during last 3-4 months. He said
by and large operation of grid during fog conditions had been satisfactory except for
few tripping in Punjab 400 kV ring system as well as tripping in eastern UP area.
These tripping were discussed in the OCC meetings and utilities were advised
speedup the insulator cleaning in NR. He appreciated the transmission utilities to
maintain a better system performance.
B.16.2 He also stated that 30-40 number of 400 kV and above EHV lines were opened on
daily basis to control the voltages in NR.
B.16.3 He further presented following points on the grid operation:
• Frequency in the operating band for 70-75% of time.

– However, hourly boundary frequency excursions continued
• Large scale fog related tripping avoided
– Except around Punjab and eastern UP.
• Almost congestion free operation (at IR boundary).
• Operation within TTC/ATC limits.
• Coal shortages continued to plague.
– Restriction of power flow on HVDC Mundra-Mahendragarh
leading to reduction in WR-NR TTC/ATC
• Frequent tripping of HVDC links in NR
• Less winter Rains: Less number of Load crash events during this year
• High voltage operation
– Synchronous Condenser op still remained alluding at most places
– Monitoring of Reactive Power absorption by Generators: lot of
issues
– Usage of line reactors as bus reactors, delays and issues
B.16.4 High Voltages in the grid :

NRLDC representatives presented the voltage profile of most of the stations in NR.
From the voltage profiles following were observed:
– Voltages in the grid remained above the normal operating ranges at most of the
station despite utilization of bus reactors
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– Low voltages were observed at nodes in valley where low voltages are seen
throughout the year.
– Voltages at 400 kV ring of Punjab (Rajpura, Dhuri, Makhu, Nakodar,
Muktsar, Jalandhar, Amritsar, TalwandiSaboo) remained above 420 kV for
most of the time in last quarter.
– 400 kV voltages were also high in Haryana (Bhiwani, Abdullapur,
Nuhiyawali, Panchkula, Sonepat etc.), Rajasthan (Sikar, Shree cement,
Jodhpur, Suratgarh etc.), Delhi (Bawana, Harshvihar, Maharanibagh,
Mandola, Jhatikara etc.) , UP (Agra, Fatehpur, Lucknow(UP), Mainpuri,
Parichcha etc.) and hydro stations in HP such as Karcham, Chamera, Parbati,
Dehar, Koldam, NathpaJhakri, Rampur etc.
– Voltages at these nodes are beyond the IEGC prescribed limits for
considerable time throughout the year.
B.16.5 High MVAR injection by some of the states/locations:

NRLDC representatives presented the nodes in different states wherein MVAR is
injected from 220 kV side to 400 kV side and also presented the nodes wherein state
utilities are paying money in Reactive Energy pool account of NR. He stated this
further leads to high voltage problem and therefore suggested:
– Node wise analysis by SLDC and shall take following actions

o Transformer tap optimization
o Switching off the capacitor banks
o Usage of line reactor as bus reactors after opening of the lines
o Reactive power absorption by Generators
o Opening of lines (taking care of reliability) contributing high MVAR
TCC advised all SLDC to carryout node wise analysis and suggest corrective actions
B.16.6 Absorption of MVAr by Generator:

NRLDC presented the MVAr absorption by generator through the plots from of
MVAr V/s. Voltage the SCADA data. He mentioned that it is pertinent here to note
that SCADA data measure from HV side of GT thus, actual MVAr absorption by the
generator would be lesser than as observed from the plots. While monitoring the
data, it was observed that:
• Telemetry of MVAR output of units shall be corrected by respective generators.
• There is still large margin available at generators at most of the places.
OCC had agreed that all generating utilities should plot & share MVAr v/s voltage
plots for generators based on their data or atleast match their SCADA data of machine
voltage and MVAR with plots shown in OCC.
TCC advised all utilities to correct the MVAR telemetry and also plot the
performance of the generators as agreed in the OCC.
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B.16.7 Reactor utilization:

NRLDC representative stated that some of the line reactors which were not being
taken in service after opening of lines were discussed in the OCC Meetings. He
further mentioned that still many of the line reactor could not be taken as bus reactor
due to different reasons, but mainly due to non availability A NGR bypassing scheme.
He requested all transmission utilities to make sure that all line reactors are used as
bus reactors after opening of the lines. Utilities need to explore commissioning of
NGR by pass scheme at those L/R which presently cannot be taken in service as B/R
especially at the nodes where high voltages are seen.
TCC advised all transmission entities to work for utilitsation of these resources at
least from next winter.
B.16.8 Hourly frequency excursions and 15 minute wise frequency changes:

NRLDC representative presented the frequency profile of number of days and also
zoomed view wherein it was observed that
– Very high frequency variation at some of the hourly boundaries specially at 0400,
0500, 0600, 0700, 0800, 0900, 1200, 1300, 1400, 1500, 1700, 1800, 2100, 2200
hrs.
– There is pattern of frequency excursion at 15 minute interval also specially during
ramping up and ramping down hours.
It was mentioned that hourly frequency excursions are due to the power supply groups
and staggering supply hours has been agreed for the same since but still in many of
states this large change in load at hourly boundaries is still continuing. The minute
excursions are due to schedule changes and generation coming bar during ramping
times. It was suggested that 5 min scheduling can be of help in curbing these 15 min
excursions.
TCC advised all entities to do the necessary staggering of load

connection/disconnection and also gear for 5 minute scheduling and accounting.
B.16.9 Grid Incidents and Grid disturbance:

NRLDC representative presented the summary of grid events between July 17 to Jan
2018 and it was observed that ratio of grid incidents to grid disturbances was 60:40
and that of 44 % events were due to delayed fault clearance (implying non proper
action of Main protection system) while 24% have no fault at all. He also presented
the status of receipt of DR/EL, preliminary report and detailed report of the events
and it was observed that information receipt is very poor with some of entities almost
information is being received.
The TCC advised all entities to follow the Grid Code and give information in time as
well as each entity shall carry detailed investigation on the cause of fault and a time
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bound program shall be formulated to avoid repeat of the events. TCC also advised
that protection audit shall be carried out regularly.
NRLDC representative also presented some of the important events (near miss events)
during the months. He also mentioned that in February 2018, two times part of Delhi
islanded. In first events there was lack of coordination between MahraniBagh PG and
DTL while the other was due to multiple tripping on account of protection issues. In
first case the island was synchronized (without check synchronizing) within a minute
and thus system narrowly missed any bigger catastrophe while in second event island
could not be synchronized and filled it has to be de-energized before revival.
Thus, there is need for further mock exercises in Delhi area for synchronization as
well as keeping synchronizing facility healthy. DTL representative agreed for the
same.
B.16.10 Wiring of RGMO/FGMO in operation signal to SLDC/NRLDC:

NRLDC representative presented the status update on above issue which was agreed
in last TCC/NRPC meeting held at Srinagar with a completion time of 3 months. It
was observed that there has been progress at NHPC, NTPC, APCPL stations but other
stations are yet to catch up.
TCC advised to complete the work at the earliest from all the entities.
B.16.11 Frequency Response Characteristics (FRC):

NRLDC representative presented the FRC of last 20 events through median and
average response. He also presented the utilities which are sending the FRC
calculations to NRLDC. He mentioned that Punjab, NHPC, UP, Rajasthan, THDC,
Haryana are sending computed FRC is almost 40% cases while others have to
catchup. It was seen that state control area response in most of the cases is around
20% of the ideal response. The generating stations of Dadri1& 2, Rihand 1, IGSTPS,
Ropar are giving above 20% of the ideal response while hydro generators of
Karcham, Dulhasti, Jhakri, Chamera1&3, are giving above 10% of the response.
Other generators have to catchup.
TCC advised all generators to monitor their response and look into the issues of lower
response from the generating stations and how to improve the response.
B.16.12 Mock Black start exercises :

NRLDC representative presented that 20 mock start exercises were planned at
Regional Entity generators during this lean season and 10 has been carried out and 4
has been rescheduled. He also requested that black start exercise require lot of
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coordination and therefore utilities shall postpone the same only under very exigent
conditions.
He also informed that Kashmir exercise involving Uri/Uri-II, Lower Jhelum and
Upper Sindh could be carried out this year even after number of postponements.
He also mentioned that black start exercises at intra-state generators were also agreed
in the OCC meetings but except for HP for Malana, no information has been received
at NRLDC for any exercise.
TCC advised all the utilities to carryout mock testing regularly as this is extremely
important.
NRPC Delibration
B.16.13 NRPC noted and approved the recomments of TCC
B.17 Important regulatory changes

B.17.1 Representative of NRLDC informed following important regulatory changes:
i) CERC Order on URS
Hon’ble Commission in order dated 17.10.2017 for the issue of scheduling of Un-
requisition Surplus Power (URS) stated as under:
• All generating companies whose tariff is determined by this Commission
under section 62 or adopted by this Commission under section 63 of the Act
shall be permitted to revise their schedule for URS power from one
beneficiary to another beneficiary of the same power station in terms of
Regulation 6.5.18 of the Grid Code within 4 time blocks. Consent of the
original beneficiary and the new beneficiary shall be submitted by the ISGS
intending to avail revision of schedule to the concerned RLDC.
• If the original beneficiary requests back its share of power, then its schedule
and the schedule of beneficiary who had availed URS power shall be revised
in 4 time blocks again.
• The revision of schedules shall be permitted under Regulation 6.5.18 in
respect of URS power subject to availability of transmission corridor and in
case of congestion; RLDCs shall be at liberty to revise the schedule in terms
of Regulation 6.5.20 of the Grid Code.
• Revision of schedule for sale of URS power to third parties shall not be
permitted. Concerned ISGS may seek short term open access for sale of URS
power to third parties.
NRLDC representative also informed that regulation for backing down of thermal
generation upto the 55% level has also been approved by UPERC and implemented in
the state of UP. This is very positive development and other states ERC shall also
implement the same to improve the flexibility of the grid to accommodate large scale
renewables.
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ii) New Amendment to CERC(Sharing of Inter State Transmission Charges &

Loss)Regulation 2017 and other developments
Hon’ble CERC has notified 5th Amendment to CERC(Sharing of Tr Charges & Loss)
Regulation 2017 which is effective from date of gazette notification (i.e. 14.12.2017)
except R-7.1y & R-7.1.z which are effective from 1.7.17 & 30.9.16 respectively. Key
Highlights of the Amendment are as under:
1. No Transmission Charge/Loss applicable for usage of ISTS by Solar/Wind Power

generation capacity awarded through competitive bidding whose COD is declared
during 01.07.2017-31.12.2019/30.09.2017-31.03.2019 and where PPAs for the
capacity has been executed with DISOCMs for their RPO compliance.
2. Generating station injecting infirm power/drawing infirm (start-up) power (before

commencement of LTA) shall pay injection/withdrawal POC charges as per actual
injection/withdrawal during a month. The POC charge amount received against infirm
power injection /drawal shall be reimbursed to the DICs in the following month, in
proportion to the billing of the DICs during the concerned month.
3. DIC with LTA to target region whose POC rate has not been determined for the
quarter, shall be billed at Average PoC rate of the target region.
4. MTOA to any region availed by a DIC in a month shall be adjusted against its Target
LTA to that region limited to the LTA granted quantum; (R-11.5, 2nd proviso amended)
5. Offset in POC charges to DICs with LTA (Target Region) and Demand DICs who
avail STOA (including PX) to any region and pay Tr. Charge against STOA (R-11.9 &
11.10)
a. Case-1: If a DIC, having LTA to a target region without identified beneficiaries and
paying injection charges for Long Term Access, avails Short Term Open Access to any
region: Charges for STOA shall be adjusted in LTA bills for following month limited to
LTA grant quantum & limited to Tr. Charge actually paid by DIC against Target LTA.
The quantum of power for which a DIC is granted STOA shall be offset against the
Approved withdrawal for which Withdrawal PoC charges are paid by the concerned
DIC. This offset shall be limited to difference between Approved Withdrawal and Net
withdrawal (load minus own injection) considered in base case, if Approved withdrawal
is less than the Net Withdrawal
b. Case-2: For Withdrawal DIC, this adjustment shall be given only for STOA
transaction by DIC, and shall not be applicable to intra-State entities embedded in State
network
c. Case-3: No Offset for Traders having a portfolio of generators for which Target LTA
has been availed by the Trading Licensee.
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B.17.2 NRLDC representative also informed that there has been change in tariff Policy by
Govt. of India on 13th February 2018 again in this regard and therefore this regulation
is likely to be changed again.
B.18 Commissioning of new elements in Uttar Pradesh state control area without
underlying network connectivity (Agenda by NRLDC)
B.18.1 NRLDC representative states that although many new 400/220kV stations have been
commissioned in UP, underlying network for most of them have not been or partially
commissioned even though sufficient time has passed since commissioning of these
stations. Underlying network at these nodes shall also be commissioned on priority so
that load shall be transferred from some stations which have high loading of lines and
ICTs and this could help in reducing N-1 violations at stations before summer season
begins. This would help to increase ATC/TTC limit for UP state control area. In 142nd
OCC meeting, UP representative had stated that work is under progress in full swing
at all stations, but it is getting hindered due to ROW issues.
S. Name of Station Available status of 220kV network (discussed in 142nd

No. OCC Meeting)
1 400/220kV Dasna commissioning of underlying network would take time
2 400/220kV Ataur commissioning of underlying network is under progress
3 400/220kV Aligarh Two ckts to Sikandrao, one ckt to Boner &Khair have been
commissioned, more 220kV ckts are expected within 1-2
months
4 400/220kV Two ckts. to 220kV Sikandrabad commissioned
Sikandrabad
5 400/220kV LILO of Sector62- Sahibabad is being done.
Indrapuram
6 765/400/220kV -
Mainpuri
7 765/400/220kV -
Greater Noida
8 765/400/220kV Hapur -
9 400/220kV Mathura Two ckts. to Chhata have been commissioned
10 400/220kV Banda One ckt to each Banda(220) and Mahoba have been
commissioned
11 400/220kV Gonda* 220kV network available but 400kV network not available
12 400/220kV Orai -
B.18.2 Representative of UP stated that some of the works would be completed before the
summer but other would take time as there are serious RoW issues.
B.18.3 TCC advised UP to speed up the commissioning of downward network in order to get
benefit of new stations.
NRPC Delibration
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B.18.4 NRPC noted the delibration of TCC.

B.19 Reliability Issue of Kashmir Valley
B.19.1 Kashmir valley is connected to the rest of the grid by following four connections:
• 400 kV Kishenpur-New Wanpoh four ckts.
• 400 kV New Wanpoh- Wagoora D/C
• 220 kV Kishenpur-Ramban-Mirbazar-Pampore (Kishenpur-Mirbazar link got effected
due to tower collapse)
• 220 kV Kishenpur-Mirbazar-Pampore
B.19.2 The issues related to Kashmir valley have already been raised and discussed in many
previous OCC/TCC meetings. In last TCC/NRPC meeting also this issue was raised,
however no actions have been taken up by utilities except for commissioning of new
SVC at New Wanpoh which has slightly improved voltage profile in valley area.
B.19.3 MW/MVAR loading of ICTs at Wagoora for winter 2017-18 remained high and N-1
non-compliant most of the time. Any tripping at 400 kV or 400/220 kV network
further weakens the supply of Kashmir valley and causes complete outage of Kashmir
valley.
B.19.4 In order to improve reliability of power to the valley the following actions need
to be taken up:
a. Expeditious commissioning of 400 kV Samba- Amargarh D/C. Underlying network
at New Amargarh substation also needs to be commissioned in line with the
commissioning of 400 kV Kishenpur-Amargarh D/C so as to utilize the aforesaid
line post commissioning.
b. New Wanpoh substation has been commissioned in 2013. However, the underlying
network is yet to be commissioned which needs to be expedited.
c. Expedite commissioning of Kishenganga HEP as well as concerned evacuation
lines. This would help in reducing ICT loading at Wagoora as well as 220 kV lines
loadings from Wagoora and improve voltage profile in the valley
B.19.5 Apart from above following actions also need to be taken up:
a. Already approved SPS for Kashmir Valley needs to be expedited by J&K.
b. Load management during the outage of any element in a manner to comply with
further N-1 contingency. This would avoid the system collapse
c. Technological upgradation and advancement at infrastructure level in such weather
affected areas of valley needs to be to be thought of and implemented for improved
reliability.
d. Maintain the real-time data telemetry to control centers for proper visualization of the
grid.
B.19.6 SVC at New Wanpoh (+300/-200 MVAr) has been commissioned on 28th Dec 2017.
Details of elements 400 kV, -200/+300 MVAr SVC at New Wanpoh are provided
below:
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S. Rating
Element Detail
No. (MVAr)
1 Coupling Transformer 3 x 100 MVA

2 TCR-1 160 Inductive
3 DTF-1 60 Capacitive
4 TCR-2 160 Inductive
5 DTF-2 60 Capacitive
6 TSC 180 Capacitive
*DTF- Double Tuned Filter
B.19.7 NRLDC representative also mentioned that though 220 kV Kishanganga-Delina D/C
has been commissioned but there is only one 220 kV line is operational between
Delina and Ziankote and therefore system of evacuation of Kishanganga is not N-1
compliant at present and therefore commissioning of planed network viz:
– Operationalization of 2ndDelina- Ziankole
– Commissioning of Kishangana-Wagoora and
– LILO of 220 kV Ziankote- Delina D/C at Amargarh
B.19.8 Is extremely important not only for Kishanganga but also for improving the reliability
of Kashmir valley supply from Amargarh as well rather than only from Wagoora.
B.19.9 Chief Engineer (SO), J&K PDD gave detailed time line of different elements in the
Kashmir valley as well as in the Jammu region. On the issue of only Main and
Transfer scheme at some of 220 kV substations in the J&K, he stated that they would
look into it for improving the reliability. On the issue of load shedding computation
method also, J&k representative assured to look into the practice and streamline the
same.
NRPC Delibration
B.20 Long outage of transmission elements and important upcoming lines
B.20.1 As per data available with NRLDC following elements are under prolonged outage:
S.
Transmission Description
No. Elements
HVDC
1 Tripped on differential protection operation at VindhyachalBtB,
VindhyachalBtB
Block 2
out since 26.11.2017.
As reported 400kV Mundka-Bawana-I is out as fire had caused
tower and insulator damage on 14.05.2017 while ckt.2 has been
2 400kV Mundka-
manually opened on emergency. Evacuation of generation at
Bawana-I & II
Jhajjar TPS through 400kV Jhajjar-Mundka-Bawana is getting
affected (now evacuation through Jhajjar-Daultabad D/C only).
3 400kV (CLP) Out since 14.06.2017 due to tower collapse. Evacuation
Jhajjar- constraint for Jhajjar (CLP) generation. Constraint on HVDC
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Dhanonda D/C Mundra-Mohindergarh import from WR. As informed by

Haryana in 142nd OCC meeting severe ROW issues are being
faced in restoration works and line is expected to be revived by
Feb 2018
Buchholz relay operated on 18.06.2017. Detail inspection work
400/220kV is under progress. 400kV generation at Rajpura thermal is
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500MVA ICT#3 getting effected and moreover it increases loading on Dhuri
at Rajpura ICTs. Delayed revival to affect ATC/TTC of Punjab for paddy
season.
400/220 kV 500
5 ICT at Bhadla is out since 09.08.2017. PRV & Differential
MVA Bhadla
(RVPNL) ICT 1
protection operation reported.
ICT is out due to Buchholz relay operation since 19.08.2017. N-
400/220kV 1 non-compliance was observed at Dhuri during
6
500MVA Dhuri monsoon/paddy season in 2017 due to unavailability of one
ICT#2 ICT. Delayed revival to affect ATC/TTC of Punjab for paddy
season.
400/220kV
7 500MVA
ICT is out due to flashover in gas chamber since 01.09.2017.
MaharaniBagh
ICT#2
400/220kV 315
8
MVA Bawana Out since 30.11.2017. 400kV side R-ph bushing damaged.
ICT 2
Line reactor
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of Bhiwadi ckt-1 Tripped on fire in R-phase line reactor at Agra since 02.11.17
at Agra PG
B.20.2 Utilities were requested to expedite restoration of these elements so that these can be
restored before onset of summer.
B.20.3 Number of FSCs and FACTS based reactive power compensation devices in
Northern Regional grid are under Forced outage on account of various reasons.
S. Name of Device Line/Node at which
Remarks
No. Region Type Element installed
400kV Meerut-
FSC-2 has been out since 14 Jul’17
1 NR FSC Kotewshwar-2 at
due to fire in Y ph unit.
Meerut end
400kV Kanpur-
FSC has been out since 14/03/2017
2 NR FSC Ballabhgarh-1 at
due to B-phase Signal column blast
Ballabgarh end
400kV Fatehpur-
FSC has been out since 02/03/2017
3 NR FSC Mainpuri-1at
due to B-ph spark gas cable fail.
Mainpuri end
400kV Fatehpur-
FSC is out since 07.05.2017 due to
4 NR FSC Mainpuri-2 at
capacitor unbalance of B-phase.
Mainpuri end
400kV Aligarh- FSC is out since 09.10.2015 due to
5 NR FSC
Muradnagar at *LILO of 400 kV Panki –Muradnagar
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Muradnagar * at Aligarh.
FSC are out since 30.12.2012 due to

FSC of Pampore-1 &
*LILO at Mirbazar (one ckt. of
6 NR FSC Pampore-2 at
Kishenpur-Mirbazar has been LILOed
Kishenpur*
at Ramban)
B.20.4 Utilities were requested to provide expected dates for revival of these elements and
action plan for the same.
B.20.5 Following lines would enhance the reliability or increase the inter-regional transfer
capability between different regions as per the present conditions and can be
expedited.
S. Implemen-
Name of Line Remarks
No. ting agency
Commissioning of this line would reduce loading of
765kV Anpara 400kV Anpara-Sarnath D/C, Anpara-Mau, and
1 UPPTCL
D- Unnao Anpara-Obra but would increase loading of already
highly loaded 400kV Singrauli-Anpara further.
765kV Commissioning of this line would reduce loading
POWERGRI
2 Jabalpur-Orai on existing WR-NR interconnect-ions and may
D
D/C even increase inter-regional import limits for NR.
B.20.6 Entities informed that work is going on to revive the elements at the earliest.
B.20.7 TCC advised all entities to complete the work in time bound manner.
NRPC delibration
B.21 Overdrawal by state entities
B.21.1 NRLDC representative presented the overdrawal of different entities in NR which
have been continuously overdrawing for most of the time in past months even though
as per regulation 7(1) of CERC regulations 2014 (Deviation Settlement and related
matters) it is required that over-drawals / under drawals of electricity by any buyer
during a time block shall not exceed 12% of its scheduled drawal or 150 MW,
whichever is lower. NRLDC had requested them to avoid such overdrawl on a
number of occasions in real time as well as through written communication. However,
some states continued to overdraw which lead to poor frequency profile. This issue
was subsequently taken to OCC meetings on several occasions.
B.21.2 In OCC Meetings, no action plan or any strong measures taken by states were
presented. It was observed that on few occasions even available power from gas
stations was not availed by states. In 143rd OCC Meeting, it was decided that since it
is a matter of Grid discipline which needs to be strictly complied therefore, if the
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deviation (overdrawal) by states persists then RLDC will be forced to open the feeder
and not to give shutdown.
B.21.3 Moreover, very large changes in drawal at hourly boundaries which result in hourly
frequency excursions and sustained grid operation at low frequency should also be
reduced.
B.21.4 TCC advised all the state utilities to stick to schedule and avoid overdrawals from the
grid.
NRPC delibration
B.21.5 NRPC Concurred with the advice of TCC.
B.22 Non availability of data from major PSTCL Sub-stations
B.22.1 This issue is covered in B 12.
B.23 Communication Plan for Channel Redundancy and to Back-up
TCC deliberations
B.23.1 NRLDC representative informed that testing of redundant channels was carried out
along with PGCIL and it was found that out of 120 RTUs, only 78 had redundant
channels and 42 RTUs were working on single channel. It was emphasised that
redundant channels must be provided at the earliest for ensuring reliability. During the
12thTeST meeting POWERGRID representative informed that they were in the
process of providing redundant channel for 25 RTUs. He stated that redundant
channel for 4 RTU which has old S900 RTU would be provided along with
replacement of RTUs. It was also informed that there were 6 IPP locations for which
IPPs had to provide communication till Data collection point. He added that there
were some NTPC and NHPC stations where redundant ports were not available in
RTU/Gateway and requested them to provide redundant port at the earliest.
Representative from NTPC and NHPC stated that they would provide redundant port
within a month’s time.
B.23.2 TCC discussed in detail the location wise non - availability of redundant channel and
advised all concerned utilities to ensure availability of redundant channel within one
month and submit action taken report by 15th April to NRPC Sectt..
NRPC Deliberations
B.23.3 NRPC noted the TCC deliberations and expressed concern about non-availability of
redundant channel. The committee advised all the concerned utilities to take
immediate action to resolve the issues and ensure availability of redundant channel.
B.24 Reliable communication from state sector RTUs
TCC deliberations
B.24.1 NRLDC representative informed that Reliability of telemetry for some of the stations
was poor since its integration. Data from some of the critical stations was highly
intermittent. In several TeST and OCC meetings , utilities were requested to look into
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the matter seriously, as data availability is very critical for smooth grid operation The
matter was discussed in 12thTeST Meeting also and it was decided that all the
concerned would take immediate action for rectification.
B.24.2 TCC advised all the SLDCs to examine the availability of data from intra state
utilities and to ensure redundancy and reliability of the communication of data.
NRPC Deliberations
B.24.3 NRPC noted TCC deliberations and requested members to take necessary action for
ensuring reliable telemetry.
B.25 Telemetry of Interface points

TCC deliberations
B.25.1 NRLDC representative requested all constituents to furnish the status of telemetry of
the interface points along with redundant points (Main and Standby) to ensure data
validation with interface meters.
B.25.2 NRLDC representative requested Members to provide target for ensuring telemetry
for those interface points where the telemetry was not available. It was emphasised
that utilities should ensure telemetry keeping in view it’s commercial impact.
B.25.3 TCC advised all the concerned utilities to furnish the status of telemetry of the
interface points along with redundant points, so that availability of Telemetry would
be ensured.
NRPC Deliberation
B.25.4 NRPC noted the TCC deliberations.
B.26 Phase nomenclature mismatch between BBMB and some interconnected stations
of other power utilities
TCC Deliberation
B.26.1 MS, NRPC briefed about the phase nomenclature mismatch at 400kV BBMB Dehar
Power House, 400 kV BBMB Bhiwani substation, 400kV BBMB Panipat substation
with interconnected substations of HPSEB Kangoo, PSTCL Rajpura, PGCIL
Panchkula, PGCIL Hisar, PGCIL Bhiwani, NTPC Dadri and expressed concerns
regarding the prevailing situations which may lead to any contingency any time due to
human error.
B.26.2 He informed the committee about the conditions prevailing at present given as:
Phase of the grid Corresponding nomenclature of the
phase at BBMB end
R Phase B Phase
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Y Phase R Phase
B Phase Y Phase
B.26.3 It was informed that this issue was being followed up regularly in OCC and OCC has
decided to modify the nomenclature of the phase prevailing at BBMB substations
citing the danger it may pose to grid security. BBMB had raised concern in the OCC
meetings that the issue could not be resolved in one go and they also required
coordination from all the concerned utilities to carry out this activity.
B.26.4 Representative of BBMB informed that the execution of this work would require at
least 06 months and could only be taken from October 2018 during the lean period.
BBMB requested NRPC to form a committee of all the concerned utilities for getting
the execution of the same.
B.26.5 TCC agreed to the request of BBMB for forming a committee comprising of BBMB
constituent states, utilities with which BBMB has interconnection, NRPC Sectt and
POWERGRID. Committee advised BBMB to complete the execution within 06
months starting from October 2018.
NRPC Deliberation
B.26.6 BBMB was informed that the scope of the committee to be formed by NRPC shall be
to scrutinize the plan to be submitted by BBMB and to overlook the execution of the
work but the committee would not be directly linked with the execution of the work.
B.26.7 NRPC approved the proposed formation of the committee and advised BBMB to
ensure resolving the issue within six months.
B.27 Converting Fixed Line Reactors to Switchable in Kankroli–Zerda line at

Kankroli end
TCC Deliberations:
B.27.1 Representative of POWERGRID stated that scheme for conversion of fixed line
reactors to switchable line reactors was discussed and agreed during the 39th meeting
of Standing Committee of Northern. He further told that it was decided in 40th NRPC
meeting that being an interregional line the approval for Kankroli – Zerda 400kV line
should be obtained from Western Region also.
B.27.2 Accordingly, the proposal was discussed in 42ndmeeting of Standing Committee of
Western Region and it was agreed to convert the fixed line reactor into switchable line
reactor at Kankroli end only.
B.27.3 TCC approved the proposal and recommended for the approval of NRPC.
NRPC Deliberations:
B.27.4 MS, NRPC briefed the committee and stated that concurrence of NRPC was required
for approval of the scheme. NRPC considered and approved the proposal of
converting fixed line reactor to switchable in Kankroli – Zerda line at Kankroli end.
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B.28 Shifting of 330 MVAR, 765kV Bus reactor-I at 765/400kV Varanasi GIS
TCC Deliberations:
B.28.1 POWERGRID representative stated that it was an old issue when reactive
compensation was not discussed in Standing Committee as well as RPC meeting and
used to be planned by CTU. He further stated that earlier Gaya-Fatehpur 765kV S/c
line was 450km long line and as such for reactive power generation a 330 MVAr
reactor was installed at Sasaram.
B.28.2 He said that with the LILO of Gaya – Fatehpur 765kV S/c line at Varanasi, the 330
MVAr Reactor at Sasaram was not required in the line and the same was shifted to
Varanasi. He told when CERC was approached for tariff after commissioning of the
reactor, CERC asked for the concurrence of RPC. Hence, it has brought up for the
post facto approval of RPC.
B.28.3 MS, NRPC enquired about the cost implications of the scheme. POWERGRID
representative stated that shifting cost is involved which was already included in
Tariff and would be recovered through PoC.
B.28.4 MS, NRPC asked POWERGRID for the value of shifting cost which was to be
intimated to the constituents. TCC recommended the proposal for approval of NRPC
NRPC Deliberations:
B.28.5 MS, NRPC briefed the committee about the issue and told that TCC has agreed for
post facto approval of the commissioning of 330 MVAr reactor at Varanasi end. He
further mentioned that the shifting and commissioning cost of 2 crores was intimated
by POWERGRID which would go into PoC charges.
B.28.6 Chairperson, NRPC told that committee would not look into the cost aspect while
shifting and commissioning of reactor. He further told that POWERGRID should
have taken the approval earlier but still post facto approval would be given for the
commissioning of reactor. He asked POWERGRID to approach CERC regarding cost
implications upon shifting and commissioning of 330 MVAr reactor of Sasaram at
Varanasi.
B.28.7 NRPC approved the post facto proposal for commissioning of reactor at Varanasi
end and told POWERGRID to approach CERC where cost aspects should be
examined.
B.29 Delay in constitution of a group to analyze reasons for failures in SCADA & EMS
system and to suggest remedial measures to avoid recurrence of such events
TCC Deliberations
B.29.1 UPPTCL representative requested NRPC to expedite constitution of a group to

analyse reasons for failures in UP SCADA & EMS system as agreed in the
12thTeST sub-committee meeting held at UPSLDC on 22/12/2017, Representatives
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of DTL and BBMB also supported the request from UP, to constitute a committee to
resolve SCADA issues.
B.29.2 Member Secretary NRPC informed the TCC members that NRPC Sectt. had already
constituted a group to analyse reasons for failures in SCADA & EMS system and to
suggest remedial action, thereof. However, he informed that the nomination from
POWERGRID was awaited. Representative of POWERGRID informed that SCADA
was running successfully and there was no need to constitute such committee as
issues raised by UPPTCL were due to SLDC shifting and local intervention. After
detailed deliberations POWERGRID agreed to nominate their representative for this
group.
B.29.3 Representative of DTL expressed concerned about competency of man power
deployed by Siemens at SLDCs.
B.29.4 TCC advised POWERGRID to take up with SIEMENS for deployment of competent
& experienced man power at each SLDCs.
B.29.5 TCC had also advised all the utilities to inform M/s SIEMENS, NRLDC and
POWERGID, in advance, before carrying out any activity on SCADA, which may
affect its functioning.
NRPC Deliberations
B.29.6 NRPC noted the TCC deliberations
B.30 Delay in implementation of various pending SCADA & EMS works by Siemens
TCC Deliberations
B.30.1 UPPTCL representative informed that the SCADA and EMS issues at UP, SLDC
had regularly been raised since long time in various TeST sub-committee meetings,
review meetings and also through emails etc. but problems had not been resolved.
It was informed that UPSLDC was unable to use various applications on OTS &
PDS.
B.30.2 TCC advised POWERGRID to take up with M/s SIEMENS to resolve the UP,
SLDC issues. POWERGRID agreed for the same. Member Secretary, NRPC
requested UPPTCL that the issues may be reported to the NRPC Sectt., if not
resolved by SIEMENS/POWERGIRD by first week of April 2018.
NRPC Deliberations
B.31 Delay in Fibre optic based communication system in NR and additional OPGW
connectivity in northern region under Fibre optic Expansion Project
TCC deliberations
B.31.1 UP representative informed that this issue had been raised in 12th TeST meeting also
and it was assured by POWERGRID that commissioning of FOTE equipments &
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routing of RTU data through OPGW would be completed by 31.03.2018, but so far
progress was almost nil.
B.31.2 TCC advised POWERGRID to take necessary action and submit the action taken
report to NRPC Secretariat by first week of April 2018
NRPC Deliberations
B.32 Delay in Training on EMS applications

TCC deliberations
B.32.1 UP SLDC representative informed that due to delay in addressing various

SCADA& EMS issues raised by UPSLDC, training on EMS applications has not
yet been started as training shall be useful only if EMS issues got resolved before
start of EMS training.
B.32.2 Member Secretary, NRPC informed that EMS training at UP SLDC was scheduled
from 2nd to 6th April 2018 by SIEMENS.
NRPC deliberations
B.32.3 NRPC noted the information
B.33 Pending Networking issues
TCC deliberations
B.33.1 TCCadvised POWERGRID to take necessary action and submit the action taken
report to NRPC Secretariat by first week of April 2018
NRPC deliberations
B.33.2 NRPC noted the information
B.34 Early Commissioning of 400/220 kV Tughalakabad Substation and associated

lines
TCC Deliberations
B.34.1 Representative of POWERGRID informed that Tughalakabad s/s and associated lines
were expected to be commissioned in time frame March 2018 to June 2018.
B.34.2 He told that as per Investment approval schedule commissioning of the system was
October 2018. He further stated that MoP has requested for early commissioning of
this substation as BTPS has to be shutdown therefore approval for early
commissioning was required from NRPC.
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B.34.3 Committee was informed that for early commissioning POWERGRID will be getting
an additional ROE of 0.5% which will be booked under PoCmechanismas per
CERCregulations.
B.34.4 TCC recommended for commissioning of the 400/220 kV Tughalakabad s/s by
March ’18.
NRPC Deliberations
B.34.5 MS, NRPC informed the committee about the issue and stated that early
commissioning of Tughalakabad s/s would avoid congestion in NR and Overloading
of lines and even steady supply to south delhi.
B.34.6 Members agreed and NRPC approved early commissioning of 400/220 kV
Tughalakabad s/s and associated lines by March’18.
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C. COMMERCIAL ISSUES
C.1 Procurement of licenses of PoC software.
TCC Deliberation
C.1.1 Member Secretary, NRPC informed that in the last TCC/NRPC meeting proposal for
procurement of PoC software from IIT Bombay at an estimated expenditure of 32
Lakh plus taxes/year, to be met through NRPC Fund was approved.
C.1.2 He informed that PoC mechanism is under review by the committee constituted by
CERC and MoP. Keeping in view, these developments which may result in significant
modifications in the software also the process of procurement has not been initiated
by NRPC Secretariat.
C.1.3 He further added that Commercial sub-committee in its 35th meeting held on 19th
Feb, 2018 suggested to keep on hold the procurement till finalisation of the
mechanism.
C.1.4 TCC members concurred with the decision of 35th CSC meeting held on 19th Feb,
2018 and suggested to keep on hold the procurement process till finalisation of the
mechanism.
NRPC Deliberation
C.1.5 Committee concurred with the TCC deliberations.
C.2 Deemed Availability Certification requiring outage for new infrastructure

development projects of Rail & Road networks etc.
TCC Deliberation
C.2.1 Member Secretary, NRPC informed that in 37th TCC /40th NRPC meetings held on
27th and 28th October, 2017 POWERGRID had brought an agenda item regarding this
issue with the following submissions :
a) The new works of infrastructure strengthening and development of new corridors
for Rail and Road transportation facilities by Central & State Govt. utilities like
NHAI/DFCC/GAIL/DMRC/Railways/UPEIDA etc. is in full swing.
b) Construction of dedicated freight corridors, strengthening of existing network by
Railways, up gradation of many national and state highways by NHAI and Agra-
Lucknow express way by UPEIDC are undertaken with stringent time schedules
and monitoring up to level of PMO monitoring portals.
c) Diversion of existing 765/400/220kV & HVDC power-line is essentially required
for above new infrastructure projects. POWERGRID is having a vast network of
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such lines and is also essentially required to take up the diversion work of its lines,
on top priority, in the national interest, to facilitate the said new construction
projects for meeting their time line.
d) The diversion work of power lines due to such new infrastructure construction
scheme also require construction of new foundation at different locations, erection
of new towers and stringing similar to that required for new transmission line
construction scheme works.
e) Presently CERC Tariff regulation 2014, Para 5 of procedure described in
Appendix-III categorically lay down consideration of outage as deemed available
for the maintenance & construction of transmission scheme. The same is
reproduced below:
Para-5 of Appendix-III
“The transmission elements under outage due to following reasons shall be
deemed to be available:
i. Shut down availed for maintenance or construction of elements of another
transmission scheme. If the other transmission scheme belongs to the
transmission licensee, the Member-Secretary, RPC may restrict the deemed
availability period to that considered reasonable by him for the work involved.
ii. Switching off of a transmission line to restrict over voltage and manual
tripping of switched reactors as per the directions of RLDC”
f) In view of other new infrastructure development construction works of various
agencies, POWERGRID has requested for consideration of deemed availability be
extended to these new other than transmission scheme also.
g) NRPC may discuss, deliberate and recommend the extension of provision of
deemed availability consideration of Appendix-III, Para 5 of CERC tariff
Regulation 2014 also to the new infrastructure development construction projects
in the national interest. POWERGRID shall take up with CERC as per
recommendation of NRPC accordingly.
C.2.2 In the 37th TCC /40th NRPC meetings, it was decided that this agenda should be first
discussed in Commercial Sub-committee meeting, and then the views of CSC to be
placed before NRPC.
C.2.3 The matter was discussed in 34th Commercial Sub-committee and the deliberations in
brief was as under:
“AA2.7 Superintending Engineer (Operation), NRPC stated that under regulation 63
of Central Electricity Authority (Measures relating to Safety and Electric
Supply) Regulations,2010 there are provisions for recovery of cost for
alteration of the overhead line to carry out any type of work whether
permanent or temporary. As per regulation the cost is to be recovered from
the person, who proposes the erection, addition or alteration work. He
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emphasized that prior certification by Electrical Inspector is required to

carry out the work under regulation 63 (6) of the Central Electricity
Authority (Measures relating to Safety and Electric Supply) Regulations,
2010. He stated that as already there are statutory provisions for the
recovery of cost for the works mentioned by POWERGRID including
diversion of lines , there is no need to consider extension of the provisions in
Appendix-III, Para 5 of CERC tariff Regulation 2014 for considering deemed
availability to the new diversion related construction works.
AA2.8 POWERGRID representative stated that as per sub-regulation 63 (3) and 63
(4) of the Central Electricity Authority (Measures relating to Safety and
Electric Supply) Regulations, 2010 the cost of alteration of overhead line
would consist of Material, Labor and supervision charges only. He
emphasized that recovery of the financial loss on account of less availability
of transmission system is not covered under these regulations.
AA2.9 The sub-committee advised all the members to send their views to NRPC Sectt.
within one month, so that the matter may be deliberated further.”
C.2.4 Member Secretary, NRPC added that no comments have been received in NRPC
Secretariat in response to deliberations in the CSC meeting on this issue.
C.2.5 Representative from the states of Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana, Uttar
Pradesh, Delhi and Uttarakhand including BBMB were of the view that outages in the
instant case, should not be considered under deemed category and the financial loss,
if any, may be recovered by transmission licensee from the concerned agency for
which shut down is taken.
C.2.6 POWERGRID representative stated that POWERGRID also participate for the
international bidding, and lower availability of transmission elements due to such
outages may lead to demean the image of POWERGRID at international fora. He
requested that technical availability by considering such outages as deemed may be
issued by NRPC Secretariat. Member Secretary, NRPC opined that feasibility of
Technical Availability, which would not have any commercial implications on the
beneficiaries, may be explored.
C.2.7 Representative of NRLDC was also of the view that technical availability may be
given to POWERGRID which shall not have any commercial implications for the
beneficiaries .
NRPC Deliberation
C.2.8 Member Secretary, NRPC briefed the members about the deliberations made in the
TCC meeting.
C.2.9 Representative of CEA was also of the view that technical availability may be give to
POWERGRID which shall not be used for commercial purposes.
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Sh. P K Das, Addl. Chief Secretary Power, Govt. of Haryana added that the technical
availability may be notional availability, without any commercial implications on
beneficiaries.
MS, NRPC Stated that views of NRPC will be forward to GM division CEA for
uniform approach in all Regions.
C.3 Signing of TPA by State Govt. with GoI& RBI
TCC Deliberation
C.3.1 Representative of POWERGRID apprised the members about the background and
relevance of Tri-Partite Agreement (TPA).
C.3.2 He added that presently the TPA was valid up to 31.10.2016 and prevailing situation
demands that the TPA signed with the States and RBI should be continued further and
validity be extended up to 31.12.2030. In this regard, necessary information sought
by the MoP was also forwarded by POWERGRID vide letter no.: CC/CP/MOP dated
16.01.2015.
C.3.3 Representative of POWERGRID intimated that the process of signing TPA by UP
was in advance stage. However, same was awaited from Punjab and Chandigarh. He
added that in case the same was not done, State Utilities had to open LC for 210% of
average billing (instead on 105%) as per the provisions of BCD Procedures of CERC
Sharing Regulations, 2010.
C.3.4 Representative of Punjab ensured that they had taken up the issue with Punjab Govt.
and would complete the process of signing of TPA, shortly.
C.3.5 POWERGRID was requested to take up this matter directly with Chandigarh as
representative from UT of Chandigarh was not present in the meeting.
C.3.6 TCC expressed concern over non-signing of TPA by UP, Punjab and Chandigarh and
requested the aforesaid entities to execute the TPA at the earliest.
NRPC Deliberation
C.3.7 The Committee concurred with the TCC deliberations.
C.4 Default in payment of outstanding dues and surcharge by beneficiaries

TCC Deliberation
C.4.1 Representative of NHPC, SJVNL, THDC and POWERGRID informed the TCC
members regarding the outstanding dues. The details of the same were enclosed in the
Agenda note of this meeting.
C.4.2 Utility-wise updated status as intimated during the meeting was mentioned below:
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NHPC
C.4.3 Development Commissioner, PDD-J&K stated that they were in the process of
clearing the outstanding dues of NHPC.
C.4.4 No Representative of UPPCL was present in the meeting, the members from
UPPTCL, present in the meeting, were requested to take up and update the status of
payment by UPPCL. Representative of UPPTCL agreed for the same.
C.4.5 Representative of Punjab stated that they had released the payment of Rs. 34 Cr.
(approx.) and balance amount would be liquidated by March’18.
C.4.6 TCC expressed concern over non participation of defaulting entities and advised
NHPC to take up the issue with the utilities not present in the meeting.
SJVNL
C.4.7 Representative of HP stated that they were making the current payment regularly;
however there had been issues with the previous outstanding dues which were yet to
be settled between GoHP and HPSEBL.
C.4.8 TCC advised SJVNL, GoHP and HPSEBL to hold a meeting to reconcile the amount.
Members agreed for the same.
C.4.9 Development Commissioner, PDD-J&K stated that they were in process of clearing
the outstanding dues of SJVNL.
UPPTCL, present in the meeting, were requested to take up the matter with the
concerned agency for liquidation of the dues at the earliest.
C.4.11 TCC noted that in most of the meetings including TCC& NRPC there is no
representation from concerned department of UPPCL. TCC advised MS, NRPC to
take up this issue with higher management of UPPCL.
THDCIL
C.4.12 Representative of THDCIL stated that BRPL was deducting TDS amount without
making payment for principle amount. He further stated that their auditor had raised
this issue. Representative of BRPL stated that deduction of TDS was being made as
per statutory requirements.
C.4.13 Representative of BRPL added that they were in discussion with their suppliers for
settlement of their dues. He added that they had submitted the proposal to NPCIL and
some other suppliers and were in discussion with their top management. He further
added that they were looking for some action in regard to timely payment and other
matters. He expressed that hopefully the matters would be considered favourably and
outstanding dues including other related matters would be resolved soon.
C.4.14 Development Commissioner, PDD-J&K stated that they were making current
payments and were in process of clearing the outstanding dues of THDC.
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UPPTCL, present in the meeting were requested to take up the matter with the
concerned department for early liquidation of dues.
POWERGRID
C.4.16 No Representative of UPPCL was present in the meeting; the members from
UPPTCL, present in the meeting were requested to take up the matter with the
concerned department for early liquidation of dues.
C.4.17 Development Commissioner, PDD-J&K stated that they were in process of clearing
the outstanding dues.
C.4.18 TCC advised POWERGRID to take up the matter directly with defaulting entities
which were not present in the meeting.
NRPC Deliberation
C.4.19 NRPC expressed concern over non participation of defaulting entities in the meeting
and directed MS, NRPC to take up the participation issue with higher management of
concerned utilities.
C.4.20 Commissioner & Secretary to Govt., PDD J&K informed that J&K would
endeavour to clear the outstanding dues of generators and transmission licensees by
March,18.
C.4.21 Sh. P K Das, Addl. Chief Secretary, Power, Govt. of Haryana suggested that a Sub-
committee may be constituted who will invite the defaulting entities and try to resolve
the issues related to outstanding.
C.4.22 NRPC advised all the members to clear the outstanding dues at the earliest.
C.5 Opening of Letter of Credit (LC)

TCC Deliberation
C.5.1 It was intimated that as per PPA/CERC Regulations beneficiaries have to submit a
confirmed, revolving, irrevocable Letter of Credit for an amount equivalent to 105%
of average monthly billing of preceding 12 months with appropriate bank as mutually
acceptable to parties. The LC has to be kept valid at all the time during the validity of
the Power Purchase Agreement. This matter had been discussed regularly in various
Commercial Sub-committee meetings as well as TCC and NRPC meetings.
C.5.2 The list of beneficiaries which were yet to submit the requisite Letter of Credit for the
FY 2017-18 was enclosed in the Agenda note of this meeting.
C.5.3 The updated status as intimated during the meeting is mentioned below:
LC against NHPC, SJVNL, THDC & POWERGRID
C.5.4 Representative of PDD, J&K stated that they are in process of establishment of Power
Trading Company. After formation of TradeCo. the LC would be opened.
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C.5.5 Representative of BRPL stated that they were already in touch with Bankers and they
would open the LC as their financial condition improves.
C.5.6 Representative of HPSEBL stated that they had opened the LC for Rampur HEP and
LC of NJHEP will be opened based on the outcome of the meeting which was
proposed to be held among the officials from HPSEBL, SJVNL and GoHP.
C.5.7 Since the representative of BYPL was not present, TCC advised utilities to take up the
issue with them directly.
LC against default of DSM payment
C.5.8 Representative of NRLDC stated that HPSEBL had opened LC of Rs. 78.55 lakh
against Rs. 929.11 lakh.
C.5.9 Representative of Punjab stated that matter was under consideration with their
management and was in final stage.
C.5.10 Representative of PDD, J&K stated that they were in process of establishment of
Power Trading Company. After formation of TradeCo. the LC would be opened.
C.5.11 Representative of BBMB, NHPC, PGCIL and DTL stated that there was only one
default in payment in previous year. It was also stated that since there was no default
in current FY, hence LC will not be required in the upcoming FY.
C.5.12 TCC advised all defaulting entities to open the LC of requisite amount at the earliest.
NRPC Deliberation
C.5.13 Committee noted the TCC deliberations and advised concerned utilities to expedite to
opening of LC.
C.5.14 Commissioner & Secretary to Govt.,PDD J&K informed that J&K would endeavour
to open the LC of requisite amount by April,18.
C.6 Status of DSM Charges

TCC Deliberation
C.6.1 Representative of NRLDC informed that Deviation Pool Account Fund of NR is
being maintained & operated by NRLDC, in accordance with the CERC Regulations.
As per Regulations 10 (1) of “Deviation Charges Related matters” the payment of
charges for Deviation shall have a high priority and the concerned constituents shall
pay the indicated amounts within 10 days of issue of statement of Charges for
Deviation including Additional Charges for Deviation by the Secretariat of the
respective Regional Power Committee in to the “Regional Deviation Pool Account
Fund” of the concern region.
C.6.2 The details of DSM Charges status as on 30 Jan-2018 considering week no-41 was
enclosed in the Agenda note of this meeting.
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C.6.3 Representative of NRLDC further added that the RRAS payment for Regulation UP
services was also required to be made from NR Deviation Pool Account. Because of
huge outstanding particularly from UP and J&K, NRLDC was not able to disburse the
amount of RRAS Regulation-up service to NTPC and APCPL, according to NRPC
Accounts. He added that NRLDC has received communications from both NTPC and
APCPL regarding non-payment of dues to them.
C.6.4 NRLDC representative requested all payable utilities to clear the outstanding at the
earliest so that receivable parties including RRAS Regulation-up service providers
may be paid in order to avoid further increase of delayed payment interest. NRLDC
informed that 45Cr.(approx.) was outstanding against RRAS payment.
C.6.5 Representative of DTL informed that they had cleared the DSM outstanding dues.
C.6.6 TCC requested all the defaulting entities to clear the outstanding so that payment of
pending receivable amount including RRAS up regulation charges can be made from
DSM Pool account.
NRPC Deliberation
C.6.7 Committee noted the TCC deliberations and advised concerned utilities for expediting
action to clear the outstanding as per CERC Regulations.
C.7 Long pending outstanding of PDD, J&K and UPPCL

TCC Deliberation
C.7.1 Representative of NRLDC stated that there was long pending outstanding of UPPCL
& PDD, J&K regarding payment towards DSM Pool. UP and PDD, J&K had been
intimated several times vide NRLDC letters dated 24th Nov 2017, 15th Dec 2017,
08th Jan 2018 & 17th Jan, 2018, and in various meetings to liquidate all the pending
outstanding of Deviation and Reactive Energy Charges.
C.7.2 Representative of NRLDC informed that UPPCL had released Rs. 35 cr. on 15th Feb
2018 and intimated vide letter dated 15th Feb 2018, the action plan for liquidation of
the outstanding by paying a minimum of Rs. 5 Crores in each business days till all
the outstanding dues are cleared. He further added that UPPCL was paying as per
their commitment.
C.7.3 He informed that based on the above commitment of UPPCL for settlement of the
outstanding NRLDC vide letter dated 15th Feb 2018 withdrawn the notice issued for
denial of STOA as per provisions stipulated in Regulation 25A of CERC with
immediate effect. UPPCL had been requested to clear the regular DSM weekly bills
within the due date as stipulated in the Regulation.
C.7.4 Representative of NRLDC intimated that PDD, J&K vide e-mail dated 08th Feb-2018
informed “that matter has been taken up with administrative Department, and it is
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expected that allotment will be released shortly thereby clearing the outstanding
dues.”
C.7.5 Representative of PDD, J&K stated that they were in process of clearing outstanding
dues.
C.7.6 Representative of NRLDC requested PDD, J&K vide letter dated 16th Feb -2018,to
clear all the outstanding by 28th Feb 2018. In case the outstanding is not cleared by
28th February 2018 or a concrete action plan is not provided for clearing of all
outstanding, NRLDC shall be constrained to invoke denial of STOA as per provisions
stipulated in Regulation 25A of CERC (Open Access in inter-State Transmission
Regulations), 2008 w.e.f. from 00 hrs of 01.03.2018.
C.7.7 TCC requested PDD, J&K for expediting action to clear the outstanding dues as per
CERC Regulations.
NRPC Deliberation
C.7.8 Committee noted the information and concurred with the TCC deliberations.
C.8 Reactive Energy charges status as on 30.01.2018, till week-41.

TCC Deliberation
C.8.1 Representative of NRLDC informed the Reactive Energy charges status as on
30.01.2018, till week-41.
C.8.2 It was noted that J&K, Delhi and Punjab were main payable entities. J&K
representative had assured for making payment shortly. Representative of Delhi stated
that they would release the outstanding amount by March, 18.
C.8.3 Representative of Punjab requested to reconcile the statement. Representative of
NRLDC agreed for the same.
C.8.4 TCC requested all payable constituents to release outstanding RE charges payments at
the earliest so that, receivable parties may be paid and further increase of delayed
payment Interest may be avoided.
NRPC Deliberation
C.9 NRLDC Fee & Charges

TCC Deliberation
C.9.1 Representative of NRLDC informed that an amount of Rs 1,07,476/- was outstanding
against PDD, J&K (part payment of Nov-17) and amount of Rs.1,68,203 was
Outstanding against Delhi (Part Payment of Aug-17, Sep-17, Oct-17 and Nov-17)
towards NRLDC Fee & Charges. It was requested to pay outstanding amount at the
earliest.
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C.9.2 He added that NRLDC was sending the hard copies of bills to all the users regularly
on monthly basis. The bills are also being mailed to all users on the day of billing and
soft copies of bills are also available to the link “https://nrldc.in/commercial/bill-
details/”. NRLDC intends to go for paperless billing and stop sending hard copy
further to users through speed post/Courier.
C.9.3 TCC requested the defaulting entities to clear the outstanding towards NRLDC fee
and charges. It was also deliberated that utilities should accept soft copy of the bill
through electronic medium e.g. e-mail etc. and should not insist on hard copy .
NRPC Deliberation
C.10 Congestion Charges

TCC Deliberation
C.10.1 Representative of NRLDC informed that amount received in the congestion charges
account was disbursed to the receivable parties. He also informed the outstanding
amount against each entity, as on 30 Jan’18. It was noted that HP, UP and J&K had
substantial outstanding.
C.10.2 Representative of HPSEBL informed that there was no outstanding as per their
records, he requested to reconcile the statement. NRLDC agreed to reconcile. J&K
representative informed that payment would be made shortly. UPPCL representative
was not present in the meeting.
C.10.3 TCC advised NRLDC to take the matter directly with those entities who were not
present in the meeting.
NRPC Deliberation
C.10.4 Committee concurred with the TCC deliberations and advised payable utilities to
release outstanding Congestion Charges at the earliest.
C.11 Issue of NFL (National Fertilizer Ltd.)

TCC Deliberation
C.11.1 SE, NRPC informed that a meeting was held at NRPC on 10.11.2017 to resolve the
NFL issues, wherein NFL was advised to get registered as regional entity latest by
15.12.2017 by completing all the formalities and clear all the dues against NRLDC
fees and charges. NFL representative stated that the matter was already under
consideration of NFL higher management and the formalities for registration with
NRLDC would be completed by 15th Dec, 2017.
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C.11.2 Representative of NRLDC stated that they had again reminded the matter vide letter
dated 11.01.2018 for registration as regional entity and clear the outstanding.
However, NFL had not registered as regional entity till date. He further added that an
amount of Rs. 35,511/- was outstanding against NFL on account of NRLDC fee and
charges. He urged that NFL should pay the outstanding amount at the earliest .
C.11.3 SE, NRPC informed that in the 35th Commercial sub-committee meeting held on 19th
Feb.’18, NFL had agreed to register as regional entity and NFL representative had
informed that the same was under finalisation with their higher management.
NRPC Deliberation
C.12 Reconciliation of Pool Accounts (Oct-17 to Dec-17)

TCC Deliberation
C.12.1 Representative of NRLDC stated that reconciliation statement of Deviation Charges
and Reactive Energy Charges had been forwarded to entities and was uploaded on
website by NRLDC on 10.01.2018. The constituents were requested to verify /check
the same & comments, if any, on the same were to be reported to NRLDC by
31.01.2018. In case of non-receipt of any communication, it will be presumed that
reconciliation statement stands reconciled.
C.12.2 He added that Deviation Charges reconciliation had been received from THDC,
NTPC, Rajasthan and KWHPS. Further, Reactive Energy Charges reconciliation had
been received only from Rajasthan.
C.12.3 TCC requested the concerned entities to expedite the Reconciliation of statements by
due date. It was also deliberated that if utilities do not send their comment on
reconciliation of the pool accounts of a particular period within the stipulated time by
NRLDC, then issue of any discrepancy in pool accounts for that period should not be
opened on a later date.
NRPC Deliberation
C.12.4 Committee concurred with the deliberations in TCC.
C.13 Status of Ancillary Services

C.13.1 Representative of NRLDC apprised the members about the Status of Ancillary
services from week 01 to 41 which was enclosed at Annexure-C13.1 of Agenda note
of this meeting. He added that an amount of Rs, 150.89 Cr. and Rs. 31.96 Cr was yet
to be paid to NTPC and APCPL, respectively.
C.13.2 He added that Automatic Generation Control (AGC) has been first time implemented
in India since 04th January, 2018 as a pilot project at Dadri II STPS. This is a
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landmark achievement and would pave the way for much awaited secondary control
through AGC in the Indian Grid.
C.13.3 Hon’ble Commission has issued the order for settlement of AGC through NR DSM
Pool account. Accordingly, NRPC is issuing AGC settlement account also along with
RRAS account since week 41. As there is no provision for interest payment due to
delay in payment related to AGC, the AGC settlement is done on priority over RRAS
after payment to all receivable parties from DSM Pool Account.
C.13.4 TCC noted the information and advised all the utilities having deviation charge
outstanding to make payment at the earliest so that payments towards AGC account
may be made at the earliest.
NRPC Deliberation
C.14 Reconciliation of STOA (Short Term Open Access) Charges disbursement
TCC Deliberation
C.14.1 Representative of NRLDC stated that they had sent the reconciliation statement of
open access disbursement for the Quarter- 3 of financial year 2017-18 on 15th Jan
2018.
C.14.2 The applicants/STU/SLDCs were requested to verify /check the reconciliation
statement & comment, if any, on the same by 31st Jan 2018. Representative of
NRLDC stated that in case of non-receipt of any communication, it will be presumed
that reconciliationstatement stands reconciled.
NRPC Deliberation
C.15 TDS Reconciliation of STOA

TCC Deliberation
C.15.1 Representative of NRLDC stated that TDS verification for FY 2010-11 to FY 2016-
17 had been done by NRLDC. After Verification of TDS from Form-26AS, the
applicants viz. NDPL, HNGIL, Provestment had been requested to pay the short
deposited TDS amount in NRLDC STOA account, the details of the same was
enclosed as Agenda note of this meeting.
C.15.2 TCC requested the concerned entities to expedite the Reconciliation of statement by
due date.
NRPC Deliberation
C.15.3 Committee noted the TCC deliberations.
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C.16 Status of Outstanding STOA Delay Payment Interest (Agenda by NRLDC)

TCC Deliberation
C.16.1 Representative of NRLDC informed that as per Regulations 19(2) of Open Access
Inter State Regulations 2008, the person committing default in payment shall pay
simple interest @ of 0.04% for each day of default. The outstanding interest amount
(computed till 30.09.2017) for Provestment, RPPC and J&K was intimated in the
agenda.
C.16.2 Representative of NRLDC intimated that they had blocked the portal for punching of
application for the defaulting entities viz. Provestment, RPPC and J&K as per
regulatory provisions.
C.16.3 TCC noted the information and advised the utilities for making payment at the
earliest.
NRPC Deliberation
C.17 STATUS of AMR as on 30.01.2018

TCC Deliberation
C.17.1 Representative of NRLDC informed that LOA for installation and commissioning of
AMR system for Northern Region was issued by POWERGRID to M/s Kalkiteck way
back in February 2012. However, the progress was very slow. The issues were
regularly being discussed in every OCC Meeting and Commercial Sub-committee
meeting of NRPC.
C.17.2 He added that till date, Site Acceptance Test (SAT) of 205 locations had been
completed covering 1323 SEM and 266 DCU. However, out of 205 locations through
AMR, only around 150 locations the data could be used for preparation of accounts
due to various reasons as deliberated earlier also. The main reason as informed by
representative of M/s Kalkitech was as below:
• Replacement/addition of meters with Elster makes. Protocol for Elster meter is to
be shared with M/s Kalkitech.
• Communication issues (at present using 2G SIM services, which is not reliable)
• Sometime Optical Reading Unit (ORU) of the SEMs was found removed /not
placed properly.
• Data Collecting Unit (DCU) not working
C.17.3 NRLDC informed that SEM data from all interface meter locations are required for
calculation of losses and preparation of weekly accounts. Non-availability of data
from so many stations was making it difficult for NRLDC to process the meter data
for loss calculation and timely submission of data to NRPC Secretariat for
preparation/issuance of weekly energy accounts.
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C.17.4 POWERGRID was requested to take up the matter with M/s Kalkitech and ensure
that AMR data from all sites is made available to NRLDC lasted by Tuesday F/N.
POWERGRID agreed for the same.
C.17.5 During the meeting, NRLDC raised the issue of time drift in Meters. It was informed
that time drift had been observed in more than 600 meters. All members were
requested to check the time drift in all meters (installed in the premises of the
respective utility) on weekly basis and take corrective action to reduce/eliminate time
drift. Members agreed for the same.
C.17.6 NRLDC informed that there is a provision in AMR system also, to take corrective
action for time drift. However, either the provision is not working or is not being used
for time correction. POWERGRID agreed for looking into the matter and expedite the
same.
C.17.7 TCC advised POWERGRID to ensure data availability through AMR from all the
locations and take corrective immediately. It was also decided that all the concerned
utilities would check the time drift, on weekly basis and take corrective action, as the
error in meters has commercial impact.
C.17.8 TCC advised all the concerned utilities to ensure ORU connection for proper
transmission of data through AMR.
NRPC Deliberation
C.18 Integration of AMR System with Elster Meters

C.18.1 Representative of NRLDC informed that in 33rd meeting of commercial sub-
committee held at NRPC, New Delhi on 28.07.2017; the issue of integration of Elster
make meters with AMR system was discussed. He stated that as informed by M/s
Kalkitech the protocol for Elster make meters had already been shared by OEM and
they were in the process of development of software for integration of the same. He
requested POWERGRID to take up the matter with M/s Kalkiteck to expedite
integration of Elster make meters with AMR system.
C.18.2 Representative of POWERGRID intimated that the integration of AMR with Elster
Meter would likely to be completed within a week.
NRPC Deliberation
C.19 AMR data through Fibre Optic Network

TCC Deliberation
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C.19.1 Representative of NRLDC stated that the issue of exploring possibility of meter data
transmission through optic fibre network (wherever available) was discussed in the
12th Meeting of test Sub-committee of NRPC held on 22.12.2017.
C.19.2 During the meeting, it was decided that POWERGRID would first do a pilot at
Maharanibagh sub-station for sending data through optic network. Subsequently, the
project can be taken up for all locations. He added that it was decided by the Sub-
committee that the expenditure on this work may be booked under Add-CAP in any
relevant Project.
C.19.3 POWERGRID informed that the pilot project has been successfully completed the
pilot project at Maharanibagh S/Stn recently and beneficiaries should give their
consent for implementation at other locations.
C.19.4 TCC requested POWERGRID to intimate the estimated cost implication for shifting
the AMR data on OPGW network, wherever feasible so that views of the members
may be taken. POWERGRID agreed for the same.
NRPC Deliberation
C.19.5 Committee concurred with TCC deliberations.
D. ITEMS FOR NRPC
D.1 Reimbursement of Expenditure of NRPC Sectt. for the year 2017-18 by the
members of NRPC
D.1.1 Member Secretary, NRPC informed that in the 40th NRPC meeting, the committee
had approved the contribution of Rs. 10.0 Lakhs per member for the FY 2017-18 and
had advised members to ensure timely payment of the contribution.
D.1.2 He added that, the payment from few utilities only had been received. The list of
present members was enclosed at Annexure D1.1 of Agenda note of this meeting.
D.1.3 NRPC advised all the concerned members to make payment of contribution to NRPC
Secretariat at the earliest, latest by 31st March, 2018.
D.2 Reimbursement of Expenditure of NRPC Sectt. by the members of NRPC for the
previous years
D.2.1 Member Secretary, NRPC informed that for reimbursing NRPC expenditure to GoI
and meeting the expenditure for meetings at Secretariat and other expenditure as
approved by Chairperson, NRPC, constituent members were to pay annual
contribution as decided at NRPC meetings from time to time.
D.2.2 He informed that the contribution for previous years was awaited from following
members:
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Amount
Sl. No. Constituent Member (Rs.)
Financial Year 2016-2017
1. UHBVNL, Panchkula
2. AVVNL, Jaipur
3. J&K PDD, Srinagar 7.0 Lakh
4. PVVNL, Varanasi
5. LancoAnpara Power Ltd., Gurgaon
1 J&K State Power Development Corp. Ltd., Shrinagar
2 Paschimanchal VVNL, Meerut
11.0 Lakh
3 GMR Energy Trading Limited, New Delhi
4 JPVL, Noida
1 JdVVNL, Jaipur
2 J&K State Power Development Corp. Ltd., Shrinagar
11.0 Lakh
3 Dakshinanchal VVNL, Agra
4 Bajaj Energy Pvt. Ltd., Noida
1 Purvanchal VVNL, Varansi 10.0Lakh
D.2.3 NRPC expressed concern over long pending payments and advised concerned
member to make payment immediately.
D.3 Regular Membership in NRPC
D.3.1 Member Secretary, NRPC stated that Northern Regional Power Committee (NRPC)
was constituted vide Government of India, Ministry of Power Resolution dated
25thMay 2005 and subsequent amendment dated 29.11.2005, 9.5.2008.
D.3.2 He informed that vide amendment dated 22.12.2017 issued by MoP clause 3(viia) as
given below has been added:
“A representative each of every Nodal Agency appointed by the Government of India
for coordinating cross-border power transactions with the countries having electrical
inter-connection with the region"
D.3.3 He further mentioned that PTC India Limited had submitted their requested for
membership, vide letter no. PTC/MTFG/NRPC/6405 dated 19thJanuary, 2018 as a
nodal agency for cross border power transactions with Nepal having electrical
connection with Northern Region.
D.3.4 He proposed that as per above resolution, PTC India Ltd. may be included as a regular
member of NRPC from FY 2017-18.
D.3.5 NRPC concurred with the proposal for regular membership of PTC India Ltd.
HOSTING OF NEXT MEETINGS OF NRPC / TCC
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Member Secretary, NRPC informed that as per agreed roster for hosting of meetings, the
next meetings of TCC (39th) & NRPC (42nd), which would become due in May, 2018
may be hosted by SJVNL. SJVNL representative agreed to revert back to NRPC
secretariat on this issue.
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Annexure-I
List of Participants of 38th Meeting of TCC on 27.02.2018 at Faridabad
S.No. Name of Officer Designation Organization
A Members of TCC
Sh. Asgar Ali Majaz TCC Chairman and Dev. PDD-J & K
1.
Commissioner (Power)
2. Shri B.M. Sud Director(Tech.) HPSEBL
3. Shri Rajesh Gupta Chief Engineer/SO&C HVPNL
4. Shri Rajesh Kapoor Chief Engineer SLDC,HP
5. Shri K.S.Sambyal Superintending Engineer SLDC,HP
6. Shri Prem Prakash Director(O) DTL
7. Shri Harjiwan Vyas Executive Director(T) SLDC, Delhi
8. Shri N. K. Sharma Director (Distribution) PSPCL
9. Smt. Shashi Prabha Director (Tech.) PSTCL
10. Shri S.P.Chaubay Chief Engineer (TO) UPRVUNL
11. Shri Janardan Choudhary Executive Director(O&M) NHPC
12. Shri K.P. Singh Chief Engineer (E&T) NPCIL
13. Shri Amit Mittal General Manager TSPL
14. Shri. D.K. Jain General Manager NRLDC
15. Shri. V.K. Kalra Member (Power) BBMB
16. Shri. R.K. Bansal Director (E) SJVNL
17. Shri. Jagdish Kumar Director (T) IPGCL
B Other Participants
I NRPC, Secretariat
18. Shri. M.A.K.P. Singh Member Secretary NRPC
19. Shri Upendra Kumar Superintending Engineer NRPC
Shri Hemant Kumar
20. Superintending Engineer NRPC
Pandey
21. Shri B.S. Meena Executive Engineer (O) NRPC
22. Shri. Ratnesh Kumar Executive Engineer (C) NRPC
23. Shri Akshay Dubey Asst. Executive Engineer(O) NRPC
24. Shri Vikrant Singh Dhillon Asst. Executive Engineer(C) NRPC
25. Shri Manish Maurya Asst. Engineer(C) NRPC
26. Shri. Kaushik Panditrao Asst. Engineer(O) NRPC
II CEA
27. Shri. Irfan Ahmed Director (NPC) CEA
III BBMB
28. Shri. Anil Gautam Director (PR) BBMB
29. Shri. Kuldeep Singh Power Controller BBMB
IV DELHI
30. Shri S.M. Verma Executive Director (T) IPGCL/PPCL
31. Sh.Naveen Goel Manager SLDC, Delhi
V HARYANA
32. Sh.Ashok Garg Dy.Secy.Gen. HPGCL
33. Sh.Himanshu Gupta Xen/Plg. HPGCL
34. Sh.Dalip Singh Dir/Proj. HVPNL
VI HIMACHAL PRADESH
35. Shri Deepak Uppal Dy. Chief Engineer (ALDC) HPSEBL
VII J&K
36. Shri S.K. Kaul Chief Engineer (C&S) PDD-J & K
VIII PUNJAB
37. Shri S.S. Mal Chief Engineer, SLDC PSTCL
38. Sh.Prem Singla SE/PR PSPCL
39. Sh. Sandeep Kumar Sr.XEN
Sr. Xen PSPCL PSPCL
IX RAJASTHAN
40. Smt. Kanika Sharma CE(PP&D) RVPNL
41. Sh.Mohana Kumar XE(PP) RRVUNL
X UTTAR PRADESH
42. Sh.Vivek Dikshit SE UPSLDC
43. Sh.S.P.Gupta SE UPSldc
44. Sh.Pankaj Saxena EE UP-STU
45. Shri Mithilesh K Gupta Executive Engineer UPSLDC
XII NHPC
46. Shri Chander Mohan Executive Director (Comml.) NHPC
47. Sh.S.K.Mishra Sr.Mgr(E) NHPC
XIII NTPC
48. Shri Rakesh Chopra General Manager (Comml)NRHQ NTPC
49. Sh.K.K.Sinha GM© NTPC
50. Sh. S.P.Kesarwani DGM(Comml) NTPC
51. Sh. Uday shankar DGM(OS) NTPC
XIV PGCIL
52. Shri P.N. Dixit Executive Director (AM) POWERGRID
53. Shri Mukesh Khanna General Manager (CTU,Plg.) POWERGRID
54. Shri R.V.S. Khushwaha General Manager POWERGRID
55. Smt. Manju Gupta AGM(Comml.&Rg.cell) POWERGRID
56. Shri Sandeep Kr. Gupta Sr. Engineer POWERGRID
57. Shri. H.S. Kaushal DGM POWERGRID
XV SJVNL
58. Shri Romesh Kapoor Chief General Manager (C&SO) SJVNL
XVI THDCIL
59. Shri L.P.Joshi Addl.General Manager (Design) THDC
60. Sh.Ajay k.Mathur GM(Comml) THDCIL
XVII NRLDC
61. Shri Rajiv Porwal Deputy General Manager NRLDC, POSOCO
62. Sh.Manoj Kumar Agarwal DGM(SO&C) NRLDC, POSOCO
XVIII Adani Power Raj. Ltd.

63. Shri Manoj Taunk General Manager Adani Power Ltd.
XIX NLDC
64. Sh. N.Nallarasan DGM NLDC,POSOCO
XX APCPL
65. Shr. Dheeraj Jain DGM (Cmml) APCPL
XXI Jhajjar Power

66. Shri. Rajneesh Setia Sr. Mgr. JPL
XXII Uttarakhand
67. Sachin Rawat S.E PTCUL
Annexure-II
List of Participants of 41st Meeting of NRPC on 28.02.2018 at Faridabad
S.N Name of Officer Designation Organization
A Members of NRPC
Chairperson, NRPC and
1. Shri Hirdesh Kumar, IAS Commissioner/Secretary, PDD J&K
PDD J&K
3. Shri Rajesh Gupta Chief Engineer /SO&Comml. HVPNL
4. Shri P.K. Agarwal Executive Director NRLDC
6. Shri. Amit Mittal General Manager TSPL
7. Shri MAKP Singh Member Secretary NRPC
8. Shri M.K. Mittal Director (Finance) NHPC
9. Shri. R. K. Sharma MD HPPTCL
Special Invitee
10. Shri. P. K. Das Addl. Chief Secretary Govt. of Haryana
B Members of TCC
Sh. Asgar Ali Majaz TCC Chairman and Dev. PDD-J & K
11.
Commissioner (Power)
12. Shri B.M. Sud Director(Tech.) HPSEBL
13. Shri Rajesh Gupta Chief Engineer/SO&C HVPNL
15. Shri K.S.Sambyal Superintending Engineer SLDC,HP
16. Shri Prem Prakash Director(O) DTL
18. Shri N. K. Sharma Director (Distribution) PSPCL
19. Smt. Shashi Prabha Director (Tech.) PSTCL
20. Shri S.P.Chaubay Chief Engineer (TO) UPRVUNL
21. Shri Janardan Choudhary Executive Director(O&M) NHPC
22. Shri K.P. Singh Chief Engineer (E&T) NPCIL
24. Shri. V.K. Kalra Member (Power) BBMB
25. Shri. Jagdish Kumar Director (T) IPGCL
26. Shri. R. S. Rathee Regional Ex. Dir. NTPC
C Other Participants
I. NRPC, Secretariat
27. Shri Upendra Kumar Superintending Engineer NRPC
28. Shri Hemant Kumar Pandey Superintending Engineer NRPC
29. Shri B.S. Meena Executive Engineer (O) NRPC
30. Shri. Ratnesh Kumar Executive Engineer (C) NRPC
31. Shri Akshay Dubey Asst. Executive Engineer(O) NRPC
32. Shri Vikrant Singh Dhillon Asst. Executive Engineer(C) NRPC
33. Shri Manish Maurya Asst. Engineer(C) NRPC
34. Shri. Kaushik Panditrao Asst. Engineer(O) NRPC
II. CEA
35. Shri. B.K. Sharma PCE- II CEA
36. Shri Dinesh Chandra Chief Engineer CEA
37. Shri Irfan Ahmed Director CEA
III. BBMB
38. Shri Anil Gautam Director (PR) BBMB
39. Shri Kuldeep Singh Power Controller BBMB
IV. DELHI
40. Shri S.M. Verma Executive Director (T) IPGCL/PPCL
V. HARYANA
41. Sh.Ashok Garg Dy.Secy.Gen. HPGCL
42. Sh.Himanshu Gupta Xen/Plg. HPGCL
43. Sh.Dalip Singh Dir/Proj. HVPNL
VI. HIMACHAL PRADESH

44. Shri Deepak Uppal Dy. Chief Engineer (ALDC) HPSEBL
VII. J&K
45. Shri S.K. Kaul Chief Engineer (C&S) PDD-J & K
VIII. PUNJAB
46. Sh.P.K.Singla SE/PR PSPCL
47. Sh. Sandeep Kumar Sr. Xen PSTCL
IX. RAJASTHAN
48. Smt.Kanika Sharma CE(PPD) RVPNL
49. Sh. Kamal Jain Dir(Tech.) RVPNL
50. Sh.Mohana Kumar, M.B XE(PP) RRVUNL
X. UTTAR PRADESH
51. Sh.Vivek Dikshit SE UPSLDC
52. Sh.S.P.Gupta SE UPSldc
53. Sh.Pankaj Saxena EE UP-STU
54. Shri Mithilesh K Gupta Executive Engineer UPSLDC
XI. NHPC
55. Shri Chander Mohan Executive Director (Comml.) NHPC
56. Sh.S.K.Mishra Sr.Mgr(E) NHPC
57. Shri Virendra Kumar Manager NHPC
XII. NTPC
58. General Manager
Shri Rakesh Chopra NTPC
(Comml)NRHQ
59. Sh.K.K.Sinha GM© NTPC
60. Sh. S.P.Kesarwani DGM(Comml) NTPC
61. Sh. Uday shankar DGM(OS) NTPC
XIII. PGCIL
62. Shri P.N. Dixit Executive Director (AM) POWERGRID
63. Shri Mukesh Khanna General Manager (CTU,Plg.) POWERGRID
64. Shri. H.S. Kaushal DGM POWERGRID
XIV. SJVNL
XV. THDCIL
65. Addl.General Manager
Shri L.P.Joshi THDCIL
(Design)
66. Sh.Ajay k.Mathur GM(Comml) THDCIL
67. Sh R.K. Verma DGM THDCIL
XVI. NRLDC
69. Shri Rajiv Porwal Deputy General Manager NRLDC, POSOCO
70. Sh.Manoj Kumar Agarwal DGM(SO&C) NRLDC, POSOCO
XVII. Adani Power Raj. Ltd.

71. Shri Manoj Taunk General Manager Adani Power Ltd.
XIX NLDC
68. Sh. N.Nallarasan DGM NLDC,POSOCO
XX APCPL
69. Shri. Dheeraj Jain DGM (Cmml) APCPL
XXI NPCIL
70. Shri. S. k. Jain AGM (I. A) NPCIL RR
71. Shri. K. P. Singh AD NPCIL
XXII Uttarakhand
72. Sachin Rawat S.E PTCUL
Annexure - III
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Ref: NLDC-PSDF/ 38th TESG/2017-18/ Dated 12th March, 2018
Subject: MOM of 38th meeting of the Techno Economic Sub Group of PSDF held on 26th
February, 2018
38th meeting of the Techno Economic Sub Group (TESG) of PSDF was held on 26th February,
2018. The meeting was chaired by Chief Engineer (NPC). There was no representation from
PSE&T Division, CEA in the meeting. List of the participants is enclosed as Annexure-I.
(A) The Inputs on the following schemes based on observations in the earlier TESG meeting
were received and the same were examined during the meeting:
S.No. Entity (Scheme No.) Name of scheme

1 MPPTCL (144) OPGW Based Reliable Communication For
Substations Of 132 kV And Above
2 MPPGCL (167&174) Installation of 125 MVAR Bus Reactor at Sanjay
Gandhi TPS & Shri Singaji TPS
3 OPTCL (179) Installation of three numbers of 125MVAR BUS
Reactors along with construction of associated bay
each at 400KV Grid Substation of Mendhasal,
Meramundali & New Duburi for VAR control &
stabilization of system voltage
4 RRVPN (176) Up-rating and refurbishment of existing 132kV
lines using HTLS Conductor
5 Puducherry (180) OPGW based Reliable Communication & Data
Acquisition System up to 132kV SS
6 NRPC (203) Setting up of PDMS for Northern Region
7 NERPC (201) Setting up of PDMS for North-Eastern Region
1. Scheme for Implementation of OPGW Based Reliable Communication for

Substations of 132 kV and Above by MPPTCL, Madhya Pradesh
The proposal was examined by the sub group on 11.5.2017 and observations as below were
communicated to the entity.
i. The entity had submitted a DPR for Optical Fibre based communication network
consisting of approximately 10752 km of OPGW at an estimated cost of Rs.506.51
crore based PGCIL SoR December 2014 with 10% escalation.
ii. The entity was asked to prepare the cost estimates on the basis of POWERGRID
SoR for 2017.
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iii. Air-conditioning is not included in the DPR prepared by POWERGRID. The
requirement of the same be may be reviewed by the entity.
iv. BoD approval shall be provided by the entity.
Reminder dated 6/ 7th Sept, 2017 was sent to the entity for submission of the inputs. The
proposal was reviewed in the 34th meeting. The entity had not submitted the inputs. The
details were yet to be furnished. It was decided to send another reminder for furnishing the
inputs by 25.10.2017.
The revised estimates of Rs 433 crore submitted by the entity on 29.1.2018 were examined
by the sub group. The revised estimates are based on POWERGRID SOR of 2017. The BOQ
includes 1500 kms of 48 fibre OPGW. The cost estimates for this item have been restricted
for 24 fibres. This is line with the decision of the Appraisal Committee. Air-conditioning
included in the DPR has also not been considered.
After excluding the costs as above, the estimated cost of Rs 413.79 crore was accepted by
sub group. The entity has also submitted the BOD approval.
The proposal by MPPTCL Madhya Pradesh for establishing communication and

measurement systems at State level gets covered under clause 5.1(c) of the MoP guidelines
and Regulation 4.1(e) of CERC (Power System Development Fund) Regulations, 2014.
Further, the proposal qualifies for 50% funding from PSDF in accordance with the decision
of the Monitoring Committee during its eleventh meeting held on 1st May, 2017.
The proposal is found to be in order and shall be put for recommendation of the
Appraisal Committee.
2. Installation of 125 MVAR Bus Reactor at Sanjay Gandhi TPS, and Shree Singaji TPP
MPPGCL, Madhya Pradesh.
The proposals of Installation of 125 MVAR Bus Reactor at Sanjay Gandhi TPS, MPPGCL,
Madhya Pradesh with estimated cost of Rs.10.45 Crore and installation of 125 MVAR Bus
Reactor at Shree Singaji TPP, Stage-II, Khandwa, MPPGCL, Madhya Pradesh with estimate
cost of Rs. 11.56 Crore were examined by the Sub Group in the 35th meeting and the
following observations were conveyed to the entity during the meeting:
i. One reactor (125 MVAR) has already approved for Khandwa s/s, estimated cost
Rs.6.21 crore. The above proposal may be submitted by MPPGCL in line with the
earlier approved scheme.
ii. Both the schemes may be submitted as a single proposal
iii. Basis of cost should be based on awarded cost of Reactor (125MVAR) at Khandwa
s/s
iv. BOQ and Rates for both the DPRs should be matching in the combined DPR
v. Provide switchyard layout and single line diagram
vi. Justification for the quantity of conductors and cables
vii. Technical parameter sheet
viii. Justification for inclusion of firefighting system, Nitrogen injection system and flood
lights.
The combined DPR at an estimated cost of Rs.14.52 crore submitted by the entity on
23.1.2018, was examined by the sub group. The reactor for Sanjay Gandhi TPS has been
cleared by the Standing Committee of CEA on Power System Planning and the reactor at
Shree Singaji TPS has been approved by CEA. Other requirements have been fulfilled by the
entity.
The proposal by MPPGCL, Madhya Pradesh for installation of 125 MVAR Bus Reactor at
Sanjay Gandhi TPS and Shree Singaji TPP at an estimated cost of Rs 14.52 crore gets
covered under clause 5.1(b) of the MoP guidelines and Regulation 4.1(b) of CERC (Power
System Development Fund) Regulations, 2014. Further, the proposal qualifies for 90%
funding from PSDF in accordance with clause 6.3(ii) of the MoP guidelines.
3. Installation of three numbers of 125MVAR BUS Reactors along with construction of

associated bay each at 400KV Grid Substation of Mendhasal, Meramundali & New
Duburi for VAR control & stabilization of system voltage, OPTCL, Odhisa
The proposal of an estimated cost of Rs.31.94 Crores for installation of three numbers of
125MVAR BUS Reactors along with construction of associated bay each at 400KV Grid
Substation of Mendhasal, Meramundali & New Duburi for VAR control & stabilization of
system voltage. The proposal was examined by the Sub Group in the 35th meeting and the
following observations were communicated to the entity during the meeting:
i. Format A6 to be submitted as per the guidelines.

ii. Various overheads under item 6.1 to 6.5 of summary of cost estimates are not eligible
for PSDF funding.
iii. Justifications for cost escalation on the rates of 2013-14
iv. Switchyard layout and single line diagram may be submitted
v. Technical parameter sheet is to be provided
vi. Cost of isolators different in deferent Substations, justification for the same may be
furnished
The inputs submitted by the entity vide letter dated 22.11.2017 were examined. Contingency
@ 3% in the cost estimates shall not be considered. Thus, the accepted cost of this DPR is Rs.
30.26 Cr.
The proposal for installation of three nos. Bus Reactors gets covered under clause 5.1(b) of
the MoP guidelines and Regulation 4.1(b) of CERC (Power System Development Fund)
Regulations, 2014. Further, the proposal qualifies for 90% funding from PSDF in accordance
with clause 6.3(ii) of the MoP guidelines.
4. Up-rating and refurbishment of existing 132kV lines using HTLS Conductor with
associated works in Jaipur EHV Network, RRVPNL, Rajasthan
The proposal at an estimated cost of Rs.20.19 Crores for Up-rating and refurbishment of
existing 132kV lines using HTLS Conductor with associated works in Jaipur EHV Network
includes the following lines:
a) Heerapura- VKIA with LILO at Vaishali 19.3 km
b) 132 kV VKIA – 220 kV VKIA 2.86 km
c) Mansarover 220 kV – Chambal 220 kV 3.773 km
The proposal was examined by the Sub Group in the 35th meeting and the entity was asked
to provide the following inputs to further process the proposal.
i. Load flow study report for present system and proposed system considering upstream
and downstream network to justify the proposal
ii. Tower healthiness report for ensuring sustainability of the line after recoductoring
iii. Basis and justification for selection of HTLS conductor
iv. As per the timeline mentioned in form A2 of the DPR, contract award period is
shown as six months. A comparison of the time taken in award and time mentioned
in the DPR may be provided for the projects already approved for PSDF funding.
The inputs submitted by the entity vide letter dated 29.1.2018 were examined. The
representative of the entity was asked to furnish the following details.
i. Results of Load flow study carried out with peak load conditions and projected load
scenario of say year 2021. The study should be carried out for with and without
proposed system( after recoductoring) considering upstream and downstream
network to justify the proposal
ii. Tower healthiness report for ensuring sustainability of the line after recoductoring
iii. Isolator ratings of 2000 amps have been considered in the proposal. The sub group
was of the view that this is overprovision, as the isolators of 1200 amps ratings shall
meet the requirements.
The proposal shall be further examined after submission of the inputs by the entity.
5. OPGW based Reliable Communication & Data Acquisition System up to 132kV SS

Puducherry
The proposal of an estimated cost of Rs.15.01 Crores for Reliable Communication & Data
Acquisition System up to 132kV SS Puducherry was examined by the Sub Group in the 35th
meeting and the following observations were communicated to the entity:
i. Grant sought in the DPR is 100%. However, the communication schemes eligible for
50% funding from PSDF.
ii. DPR to be provided as per the guidelines with the following inputs
a) Detailed station wise and line wise BOQ
b) Existing communication details
c) cost estimation on the basis of SOR 2017 of POWERGRID
d) Communication network topology
The inputs submitted by the entity vide letter dated 5.1.2018 were examined. The
observations of the sub group are as below:
i. Revised cost estimate Rs 8.9 crore is based on POWERGRID SOR of 2014. The
rates are comparable with the PGCIL SoR of 2017.
ii. The estimates also include 8 kms 48 OPGW. The cost estimates for this item have
been computed for 24 fibres. This is line with the decision of the Appraisal
Committee.
iii. The entity has not provided soft copy of the DPR.
iv. The undertaking format (A6) required to be submitted in stamp paper.
v. The total cost includes ineligible expenditures i.e. contingency, overheads
(@10.75%) and IDC.
The entity shall be asked to furnish the above details.
The cost of 8 kms of 48 fibre OPGW is calculated for 24 fibres and contingency, overheads
(10.75%) & IDC are excluded. The estimated cost works out to Rs 7.37 Crores.
The proposal by Puducherry for establishing communication and measurement systems at

State level with an estimated cost of Rs 7.37 Crore gets covered under clause 5.1(c) of the
MoP guidelines and Regulation 4.1(e) of CERC (Power System Development Fund)
Regulations, 2014. Further, the proposal qualifies for 50% funding from PSDF in accordance
with the decision of the Monitoring Committee during its eleventh meeting held on 1st May,
2017.
The proposal is found to be generally in order. However, the proposal shall be put for
recommendation of the Appraisal Committee after fulfillment of above observations
and submission of the revised cost estimates by the entity.
6. Setting up of Protection Database Management systems (PDMS) for Northern Region

by NRPC
The proposal was examined by the sub group in its 37th meeting and found that following
details would be required from NRPC for further examination.
i.
Soft copy of the DPR
ii.
Physical & Financial milestones
iii.
Basis of total number of licenses and its distribution among utilities
iv.
List of substations covered in the DPR
v.
Components and functionalities are not given in the DPR.
vi.
Summary of cost estimates
vii.
Basis and justification of cost estimates and the estimates should be compared
with the contract awarded to SRPC and ERPC recently
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The inputs provided by NRPC vide letter dated 5.2.2018 were examined by the sub group.
Inputs in respect of points (i) to (vi) were found to be in order. However, justification of cost
estimates has been submitted by comparing the estimates with the approved DPR estimated
cost of SRPC, i.e. Rs. 28 crore. The observations of the sub group are as below:
i. Total number of sub stations proposed to be covered under NRPC proposal is 826
as against 600 stations covered by SRPC.
ii. 52 licenses are proposed to be distributed amongst the beneficiaries in NR. The
DPR of SR included 35 licenses.
iii. Cost proposed by NRPC is Rs. 35.10 Crores.
iv. Components of the PDMS and cost (Rs crore) as per the contract award of SRPC
(Rs 14.99 crore plus taxes) are as below:
a. Base license for customization 1.5
b. Computer hardware and system software 1.5
c. Support and upgradation for five years 1.5
d. Cost for 35 license 2.99
e. Data base collection and modeling for 600 stations 7.5
v. With SRPC awarded cost a s basis and considering 826 stations and 52 licenses
for NR, the cost estimates for NR come in the range of 25 crores. After taking into
consideration an escalation of 10 %, an estimated cost of about Rs. 28 crores,
seems reasonable.
The proposal by NRPC for setting up of PDMS for Northern Region gets covered under
clause 5.1(e) of the MoP guidelines and Regulation 4.1(e) of CERC (Power System
Development Fund) Regulations, 2014. Further, the proposal qualifies for 100% funding
from PSDF in accordance with clause 6.3(iii) of the MoP guidelines.
It was decided that the proposal of NRPC would be put for discussion in Appraisal
Committee. We may invite NRPC in the Appraisal committee meeting so that the cost
estimate as adjusted by the subgroup could be further discussed with them, in the
Appraisal Committee, for speeding up the approval process.
7. Setting up of Protection Database Management systems (PDMS) for North-Eastern

Region by NERPC
The proposal was examined by the sub group in its 37th meeting and found that following
details would be required from NRPC for further examination.
i. Soft copy of the DPR

ii. Physical & Financial milestones
iii. The total number of substations at different voltage levels proposed to be covered
iv. Justification of Manpower from the vendor and its contractor
v. Basis and justification of cost estimates and the estimates should be compared
with the contract awarded by SRPC and ERPC recently
vi. Format A5
The inputs provided by NERPC vide letter dated 31.1.2018 were examined by the sub group
and following is observed:
i. Total number of sub stations proposed to be covered under NRPC proposal is 300
as against 600 stations covered by SRPC.
ii. 31 licenses are proposed to be distributed amongst the beneficiaries in NR. The
DPR of SR included 35 licenses.
iii. Cost proposed by NERPC is Rs. 26.74 Crores.
iv. Components of the PDMS and cost (Rs crore) as per the contract award of SRPC
(Rs 14.99 crore plus taxes) are as below:
a. Base license for customization 1.5
b. Computer hardware and system software 1.5
c. Support and upgradation for five years 1.5
d. Cost for 35 license 2.99
e. Data base collection and modeling for 600 stations 7.5
v. With SRPC awarded cost a s basis and considering 300 stations and 31 licenses
for NER, the cost estimates for NER after taking into consideration an escalation
of 10 % and 30% extra for NER, an estimated cost of Rs. 17 crore seem
reasonable.
The proposal by NERPC for setting up of PDMS for Northern Region gets covered under
clause 5.1(e) of the MoP guidelines and Regulation 4.1(e) of CERC (Power System
Development Fund) Regulations, 2014. Further, the proposal qualifies for 100% funding
from PSDF in accordance with clause 6.3(iii) of the MoP guidelines.
It was decided that the proposal of NERPC would be put for discussion in Appraisal
Committee. We may invite NERPC in the Appraisal committee meeting so that the cost
estimate as adjusted by the subgroup could be further discussed with them, in the
Appraisal Committee, for speeding up the approval process.
(B) Other Proposals Pending Inputs from the Entities:
Further, the following schemes were examined by the subgroup and the observations are as
under:
1. Proposals of NER states for the installation of ADMS
Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Mizoram, Assam and Meghalaya have submitted the
proposals for integration of 33/11kV System integration with SLDC System for
implementation of ADMS. ADMS is to be implemented by the state utilities for compliance
of CERC directions.
All the states, except Meghalaya, have submitted a pilot scheme to be implemented in few
locations including installation of RTUs (except Meghalaya), optical fiber based
communication system between the remote locations and the SLDC and associated software
and hardware.
The some of the proposals were initially examined by the subgroup in the 33rd meeting held
on 21.6.2017. It was observed that the proposals for all the utilities were prepared by
engaging a common consultant. The information regarding the loads to be managed,
operational philosophy, capability and readiness of the substations considered for remote
operation were not mentioned in the DPRs. Also, the basis of cost estimates including
software packages was not furnished. It was decided that the sub group would further
examine the schemes after interacting with the consultants who have assisted the utilities in
preparing the DPRs to understand the scope and other aspects.
In line with the discussions held during the 33rd sub group meeting, interactions were held
with the Consultant M/S Scope. It emerged that the objectives and methodology stated in the
DPR was not found to be in line with the requirements of ADMS as mandated by CERC. The
Sub group was of the view that even while implementing a pilot project, the summation of
flows on all the ISTS on the State periphery should be available for initiating the signals for
operation of ADMS/tripping of loads during the over drawl conditions. It would also be
pertinent to have fully functional SLDC prior to implementation of ADMS.
During its 34th meeting held on 29.09.2017 the sub group recommended that the above views
may be communicated to the State agencies, with request to modify their report accordingly.
The issue discussed in the 139th OCC of NERPC held on 19.12.2017 was deliberated by the
sub group. The relevant extract of the OCC’s MOM is reproduced below:
“GM, NLDC at the outset thanked the forum for allowing him to interact with the distinguished
members of various utilities. He appreciated the presentation by M/s SCOPE on ADMS.
However, he also noted the basic objective of ADMS is to disconnect load so that control areas
can adhere to the voltage and frequency limits stipulated by IEGC. The elaborate scheme of M/s
SCOPE is more of a SCADA for Distribution Management. Though it serves the purpose of
ADMS, it also increases the cost sufficiently. An ADMS with round-robin disconnection of load
may be implemented without actual data at SLDC. He requested the forum and M/s SCOPE to
relook into the cost of project so that it may fulfill the guidelines of CERC as well as be cost
efficient.
The forum noted the view of NLDC but at the same time informed that the costs of projects in
NER should not be compared with other regions; moreover, this is the pilot project only. Further,
the forum opined that load centres in NER are only in the State capitals, except Assam and hence
the order of Hon’ble CERC will be complied with this pilot projects only and may not require
further. The forum requested NPC/NLDC to look into the matter on priority so that the scheme
can be implemented as directed by CERC.”
The observations of the sub group are as below.
i. Objectives of ADMS as mandated by CERC would not be met with the

philosophy proposed in the current DPRs.
ii. As per the DPR, a specific load is allocated to each station proposed under the
DPR and the same would be curtailed in case of it exceeds this limit. This may
result in frequent interruptions of same load and also this philosophy is not in line
with requirements of CERC to maintain drawl as per schedule.
iii. The proposals involve erection of two to three RTUs at 132 / 33 kV substations
by all the States, except Meghalaya. Meghalaya proposes to use existing RTU
installed in the SLDC premises.
iv. The RTUs are proposed to connect with the ADMS servers with dedicated
communication using fibre optic system.
v. Following points in respect of the communication system need to be reviewed by
the entities.
a. Cost estimates of 24 fibre OPGW considered.
b. Cost estimates for fibre cables and other communication equipment may
be based on the POWERGRID SOR of 2017.
vi. Cost of the communication equipment of these DPR is very much on the higher
side. For example, the cost of 24F OPGW as per PGCIL SoR 2017 is Rs. 1,05,194
per km with erection cost Rs. 49,590 per km however these DPR have taken Rs.
2,10,000 to Rs. 3,29,000 per km with erection cost Rs. 94,500 to Rs. 2,17,000
per km. Similarly, the cost of end terminal equipments and SDH is also very high.
i.e. upto 12 times high (as per PGCIL SoR 2017).
It was decided the observations of the subgroup may be placed in the Appraisal
Committee for approval, deliberation and seeking advice.
The details of the Schemes are given below:

S.No. Entity (Scheme Name of scheme Estimated
No.) Cost in
Rs. Cr.
1 Manipur 140 Implementation of ADMS pilot 6.55
project at three power substations
2 Nagaland 145 33/11 kV system integration with 5.09
SLDC
3 Arunachal Pradesh 146 Implementation of ADMS to 4.99
integrate 33/11 kV system
4 Mizoram 148 33/11 kV system integration with 5.40
SLDC
5 Assam 157 33/11 kV system integration with 5.00
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SLDC
6 Meghalaya 166 33/11 kV system integration with 2.02
SLDC
2. Proposals for installation of capacitors
The entities have been submitting the proposals for installation of capacitors in the
distribution system. Nineteen such proposals (refer Annexure-II) were also reviewed by the
sub group. During 36th meeting held on 12.01.2018, the sub group had sought following
information from the entities:
a) The capacitor banks to be installed at 11/33/66 kV level.
b) For examination of these proposals following details would be required.
i. study report based on which the requirement has been projected
ii. location wise details of existing capacitor banks with age and healthiness
report
iii. Present voltage profile at 11 kV / 33 kV
iv. projected voltage levels after installation of capacitors
v. schematic for automatic power factor correction
vi. SLDC report
vii. STU approval
viii. Basis of cost estimates
ix. Grant from any other scheme of GOI (IPDS, DDUGVY)
The sub group had also observed that as per function of RPCs, as given in their Resolution
(as given in 6.7) they carry out capacitor requirement studies and it was noted that the
progress of installation of capacitors by various constituent States are also be discussed in the
RPC meetings. The sub group may therefore, seek input from concerned RPCs about
quantum of capacitors installed in each State, in the region in the last 10/15 years.
The sub group was of the view that further examination may be carried out after submission
of the above details by the entity.
Accordingly, as deiced by the sub group, NLDC had sought above inputs from the entities
vide letter dated 23.10.2018. However, inputs were furnished only by TSTRANSCO and
TANGEDCO.
NRPC and SRPC have furnished a study report of CPRI for assessment of capacitor
requirement of the entities in the respective regions. These reports deal only at transmission
level (132 kV and 220 kV voltage level). The requirement at distribution level (33 kV and 11
kV level) is not available in these reports.
The sub group examined the inputs furnished by TSTRANSCO and TANGEDCO. It was
observed that most of the details sought with respect to points (a) and (b) above were not
provided.
It was decided to send reminder to all the entities for expeditious submission of the
inputs.
3. In addition to above ADMS (6 Nos.) and Capacitor (19 Nos.) proposals, the sub group has
examined 17 other schemes which had been discussed in earlier Sub-group meetings. The list
is enclosed as Annexure-III. The inputs from these entities are still awaited.
It was decided to send reminders for expeditious submission of inputs from entities.
4. The Chair thanked all the participants.
Annexure- I
Annexure- II
Proposals for installation of capacitors
Sl. Name of Name of Entity Date of Name of Scheme Estimated

No State/Entity & unique ID Submission cost by
of Scheme by entity (Rs.
the entity Crore)
I II III IV V VI
1 Mizoram DoP, Mizoram 16-Mar-17 Installation of Reactive Power 16.88
Solution at 132kv Substation
in Mizoram
2 Punjab PSTCL (60) 24-Jun-15 Installation of 35 nos.,66kV 8.35
10.86MVAR HT shunt
capacitor at various 220kV
substations(60)
3 Haryana HVPNL(65) 21-Sep-15 To improve the voltage profile 37.25
in the Grid by compensating
reactive power. (065)
4 Uttar Pradesh MVVNL (068) 17-Oct-15 Installation of 11kV Auto 294.25

switched capacitor bank at
various 33/11kV
substation(68)
5 PDD J&K PDD J&K(033) 18-Dec-14 Capacitors at 132/33 kV 223.88
substations , existing and
upcoming (033)
6 Rajasthan RRVPNL 5-Aug-16 Installation of 33KV Shunt 29.30
Capacitor banks in Rajasthan
Power System. (105)
7 Uttar Pradesh DVVNL (UP) 10-Nov-16 Provision of 11kV Auto 374.97
Switched Capacitor Bank at
various 33/11 kV substation.
(120)
8 Maharashtra MSETCL 14-Feb-17 Installation of Capacitor 18.08
Banks at HV & EHV level at
various EHV substations
under Parli Circle,
Aurangabad Zone & Akola
Circle, Amravati zones in
MSETCL. (130)
9 Telangana TSTRANSCO 2-Jun-16 Installation & Commissioning 4.79
of Capacitors Banks at EHT
Substations in
TSTRANSCO(092)
10 Telangana TSTRANSCO 14-Feb-17 Installation and 28.13
Commissioning of 247 Nos.
shunt capacitor banks at
various 33/11kV sub-stations
of Southern Power
Distribution Company of
Telangana Ltd. (TSSPDCL)
(131)
11 Nagaland DOP, Nagaland 23-Feb-17 Installation of Automatic 27.47

Reactive power Solution at
66/33kV, 66/11kV & 33/11kV
Substations. (133)
12 Uttar Pradesh PuVVNL (UP) 5-Jun-17 Provision of 11kV Auto 536.50
various 33/11 kV substation of
Varanasi. (160)
13 Uttar Pradesh PVVNL (UP) 20-Jul-17 Provision of 11kV Auto 179.40
various 33/11 kV substation of
Meerut. (168)
14 Uttar Pradesh DVVNL (UP) 21-Jul-17 Provision of 11kV Auto 161.20
various 33/11 kV substation .
(169)
15 Uttar Pradesh PuVVNL (UP) 21-Jul-17 Provision of 11KV Auto 237.90
Switched capacitor bank at
various 33/11 KV
Substation.(170)
16 Uttar Pradesh MVVNL (UP) 26-Jul-17 Provision of 11kV Auto 158.17
Switched capacitor bank at
various 33/11kV substation.
(171)
17 Maharashtra MSETCL 9-Aug-17 Installation of Capacitor 79.32
Banks at HV level at various
EHV substations under
Aurangabad, Amravati,
Karad, Nasik, Nagpur and
Pune zone in MSETCL. (175)
18 Tamil Nadu TANTRANSCO 11-Sept-.17 Installation of 13 sets of 17.59
(181) 110kV, 24MVAR Shunt
Capacitor Banks at various
Sub-stations in TNEB.
19 TANTRANSCO 11-Oct-17 Design, Detailed Engineering 18.74
Tamil Nadu (184) , Supply, Erection, Testing
and Commissioning of 33 sets
of 11kV, 2.4 MVAR
Capacitor Banks (79.2MVAR)
and 49 sets of 22kV, 2.4
MVAR Capacitor Banks
(117.6MVAR) in various
substations in Coimbatore
region in Tamilnadu.
Annexure- IB
Summary of other proposals examined by Sub Group in the earlier meetings
Sl. Name of Name of Entity Date of Name of Scheme Estimated
No. State/Entity & unique ID Submission cost by
of Scheme entity ( Rs.
Crore)
I II III IV V VI
1 Maharashtra MSETCL 18-Jan-17 Replacement of existing 0.2 47.29
Panther conductor of 132kV
Part I:Babhaleshwar-
Sangamner SCSC and 132kV
Ahmednagar-Ahemedanagar
MIDC lines under EHV O&M
Division Babhaleshwar by High
Ampacity Conductor. Part-II:
Jalna MIDC and Jalna-Jalna (old)
lines emanating from 220kV
Jalna substation under EHV
O&M Circle, Aurangabad under
Aurangabad Zone. (124)
2 Uttar UPPTCL 16-Sep-16 Implementation of Reliable 330.00
Pradesh Communication and data
acquisition system for OFC
connectivity up to 132kV sub
Stations of Uttar Pradesh Power
Transmission Corporation Ltd.
(115)
3 Rajasthan RRVPNL 26-Apr-17 Renewable Energy Integration - 488.19
Reactive Compensation
Elements / Equipment for
Reactive Power Management
and Voltage Control of
Transmission Grid under Smart
Transmission Network and
Asset Management System
(Part-A2) in Rajasthan Power
System. (154)
4 Punjab PSTCL 29-May-17 Provision of Bus Reactors at 52.00
400kV Grid Substations of
PSTCL. (158)
5 Gujarat GETCO 6-Jun-17 Purchase, testing and 40.79
commissioning various schemes
under renovation &
modernization Scheme of
Gujarat. (162)
6 Tamilnadu TANTRANSCO 27-Jun-17 Re-Conductring of existing of 11 122.36
and 230kV ACSR conductors
with High Temperature Low Sag
(HTLS) conductors in Channai.
(164)
7 Tamilnadu TANTRANSCO 29-Sep-17 Re-Conductring of existing of 85.82
110kV DC Theni - Sembatty
feeder I&II and Theni - Periyar
feeder I&II. (182)
8 Meghalaya MePGCL 27-Jun-17 Reliable Communication & Data 19.73
Acquisition System upto
132kV.(165)
9 Sikkim Sikkim 9-Aug-17 Renovation & Upgradation of 68.95
Protection System of ENPD,
Sikkim. (172)
10 Sikkim Sikkim 9-Aug-17 Drawing of optical ground wire 25.36
(OPGW) cables on existing
132kV & 66kV transmission lines
and integration of leftover
substations with State Load
Despatch Centre, Sikkim. (173)
11 Jharkhand JUSNL 23-Aug-17 Reliable Communication & Data 102.31
Acquisition System upto 132kV
Substations ER .(177)
12 Arunachal DoP, Arunachal 28-Aug-17 Reliable Communication & data 22.04
Paradesh Pradesh acquisition system upto 220kV
System in Arunachal Pradesh.
(178)
13 Madhya MPPGCL 3-Oct-17 Renovation & Upgradation of 16.41
Pradesh 132kV switchyards of MPPGCL
at following locations in MP: (A)
Gandhi Sagar HPS, (B) Pench
HPS, (C ) Rani Awanti Bai Sagar
HPS, (D) Ban Sagar HPS-II (E )
Ban Sagar HPS-III, (F) Ban Sagar
HPS-IV, (G) Madhikheda HPS,
(H) Fajghat HPS, (I) Brisinghpur
HPS. (183)
14 Telangana TSTRANSCO 11-Oct-17 Implementation of SAMAST 84.64
(scheduling, Accounting,
Meeting and Settlement of
Transactions in Electricity) in
Telangana. (185)
15 Meghalaya MePTCL 30-Oct-17 Installation of Numerical line 4.51
differential relays in the 132kV
transmission lines. (Short Lines).
(186)
16 Meghalaya MePTCL 30-Oct-17 Re-conductoring of the 132kV 49.3
S/C line from Khliehrait to
Raracherra by HTLS conductor
(Meghalaya Portion). (187)
17 Tamilnadu TANTRANSCO 30-Oct-17 Installation of 2 Nos. of 400kV, 17.27
80 MVAR Bus reactor with
associated equipments for
400/230-110 kV AIS SS at
Kamudhi under total turnkey
contract in Madurai Region of
Tamilnadu. (188)

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Subject: 41 5t meeting of Northern Regional Power Committee and 38 th meeting of TCC -

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PROCEEDINGS OF 3 8t h MEETING OF TCC

8. Sh. M.A.K.P.Singh,Member Secretary, NRPC welcomed the Members of Technical

A.1 Minutes of 37th meeting of TCC

PROCEEDINGS OF 41st M E E T I N G O F NRPC

1. Sh. Dalip Singh, Director (Proj.), HVPNLwelcomedSh. P.K.Das, Additional Chief

Electricity Regulatory Commission ( HERC), which was only second SERC to be

8. Chairperson, NRPC appreciated the contribution of all stakeholders in facilitating the

response, storage facilities, latest forecasting techniques etc. to manage the

A.2 Minutes of 40th meeting of NRPC

S. Substation Downstream Schedule Planned system and

1 400/220kV , 2 nos. bays utilized Commissioned LILO of 220kV Hiranagar-Jatwal

3 400/220kV, 2 Nos. of 220 kV Commissioned 220 kV Charor- Banala D/c line

S. Substation Downstream Schedule Planned system and

completion date 02/01/2018.

Representative of HVPNL stated

Targeted Completion – March

He further stated that work for

5 400/220kV, 3 nos. of 220 kV Bagpat- Baraut 220kV S/c Line

6 400/220 kV, 2 nos. 220 kV LILO of 220 kV Khara- Shamli at

7 400/220kV, Out of 6 bays, only 2 bays for 220 kV Dehradun –

2 bays for proposed S/s at Selakui

S. Substation Downstream Schedule Planned system and

8 400/220kV, 02 nos. 220kV Kotputli(PG) – Kotputli (RVPN)

RVPN representative confirmed

9 400/220kV, Partially utilized. 220kV S/c to Chaksu (existing)

2 nos of bay of utilized for 220kV

11 Shahjahanpur, Partially utilized. Commissioned One bay used for 220 kV

S. Substation Downstream Schedule Planned system and

12 Jalandhar, 1x Partially utilized. Commissioned O/o C.E./TS/PSTCL/Patiala has

Hamirpur 04 nos. 220 kV 2x220 kV bays to be utilized for

(Augmentation Balance two bays to

220kV Kaithal(PG)- Neemwala

Commissioned Work order has been awarded to

S. Substation Downstream Schedule Planned system and

ready, however resolved. It has been expected to

Bhiwani 6 nos. of 220kV HVPNL to update.

Jind 400/220kV 6 nos. of 220kV HVPNL to update

Establishment of new 400/220kV substations in Northern Region:

Sl. Name of Substation MVA Expected Downstream connectivity

1 400/220kV Dwarka-I GIS 4x 500 Sep’18 DTL may update.

2 400/220kV Tughlakabad 4x 500 Oct’18

3 220/66kV Chandigarh GIS 2x 160 Feb’19 8 nos. of 66kV bays. UT

4 400/220kV Jauljivi GIS 2x315 December 2 bays for 220kV Almora-

2 bays for 220kV

5 400/220kV Sohna Road 2x500 May’19

6 400/220kV Prithla GIS 2x500 May’19 Two nos. of 220kV bays

Four nos. of 220kV bays

Sl. Name of Substation MVA Expected Downstream connectivity

(8 bays) for LILO of existing

Two nos. of 220kV bays

7 400/220kV Kadarpur GIS 2x500 May’19

S/s. Details for remaining

9 400/220kV Amargarh GIS 7X105 Oct’18 JKPDD to confirm for

B.5 Database of protection settings

1 3 x 105 MVA ICT 31.01.2017 at 02.02.2017 Successful Trial Run

2 63 MVAr Bus Reactor - I 12.12.2016 at 14.12.2016 Certificate issued by

3 63 MVAr Bus Reactor - II 28.09.2017 Yet to be Test Charged only.

B.7 LVRT issues of wind generation

B.8 Connectivity to Naitwar Mori HEP (NMHEP) (2X30MW) of SJVN Ltd. in

b) #Location of Mori 220/132 kV(PTCUL) – Dehradun 220 kV D/c (to be

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