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Impact of Availability on O&M Charges

as per CERC Tariff Regulations 2019-24
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Tariff Structure (Cost Plus)
a) Return on Equity
b) Interest on Loan capital Annual Fixed Cost
c) Depreciation
d) Interest on Working capital (As per CERC order)
e) O&M expenses
 Actual transmission charges depends on availability of transmission systems on monthly basis

 Normative Availability
AC: 98% HVDC : 95%
 If availability is less than the above norms, reduced recovery of transmission charges
 Availability for the purpose of Incentive
AC: 98.5% HVDC : 97.50% Ceiling : 99.75%
 If availability is more than the above norms-
Monthly Availability
Annual Fixed Cost X = Tr. Charges
Availability for incentive
Annual Tariff is not dependent upon the quantum of power flow 23
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Tariff Admissible vs Availability

AC System DC System

Transmission System Availability calculated for each month

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Computation of Availability
For AC system

» Transmission availability upto the end of the nth month of the year (TAFMn)=
(o X AVo)+ (p X AVp) + (q X AVq) + (r X AVr) + (u X AVu)
*100
(o + p + q + r + u)

» o = Total number of AC lines; AVo = Availability of o number of AC lines.

» p = Total number of bus reactors/switchable line reactors
AVp = Availability of p number of bus reactors/switchable line reactors
» q = Total number of ICTs. ; AVq = Availability of q number of ICTs.
» r = Total number of SVCs. ; AVr = Availability of r number of SVCs
» u = Total number of STATCOM. ; AVu = Availability of u number of STATCOMs

Non switchable line reactors, FSCs and TCSCs are not accounted in availability calculation
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Computation of Availability
For DC system
» Transmission availability upto the end of the nth month of the year (TAFMn)=
𝑠 𝑡
𝐶𝑥𝑏𝑝 𝑎𝑐𝑡 ∗𝐴𝑉𝑥𝑏𝑝+ 𝑦=1 𝐶𝑦𝑏𝑡𝑏 𝑎𝑐𝑡 ∗𝐴𝑉𝑦𝑏𝑡𝑏
𝑥=1
𝑠 𝑡 *100
𝑥=1 𝐶𝑥𝑏𝑝+ 𝑦=1 𝐶𝑦𝑏𝑡𝑏

» Cxbp(act) = Total actual operated capacity of xth HVDC pole;

» Cxbp = Total rated capacity of xth HVDC pole
» AVxbp = Availability of xth HVDC pole
» Cybtb(act) = Total actual operated capacity of yth HVDC btb station block
» Cybtb = Total rated capacity of yth HVDC back-to-back station block
» AVybtb = Availability of yth HVDC back-to-back station block
» s = Total no. of HVDC poles; t = Total no. of HVDC Back to Back blocks
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Weightage Factor for Availability

• For each ckt of AC line: No. of sub conductors * ckt-km.
• For each HVDC pole: Rated MW capacity * Ckm
• Each ICT Bank: Rated MVA capacity
• SVC: The rated MVAR capacity (Inductive and capacitive)
• For BR and switchable LR: The rated MVAR capacity.
• For HVDC Back to Back Station: Rated MW capacity of each block
• STATCOM: Total rated MVAR capacity
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Availability Calculation

» AC system: Availability shall be calculated each

month separately for each Regional Transmission
System and inter-regional transmission system – No
annual consolidation

» HVDC system: Availability shall be calculated each

month for all HVDC systems and consolidated
annually.
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Availability Calculation:
Things to Ponder
» System Availability certified each month by RPCs. - Any
availability data submitted incorrectly affects
operational revenue - hard to correct after RPC
certification
» DC system availability calculated cumulatively for all
HVDC systems - any O&M disturbance at one station
gets evenly distributed on each HVDC system - lesser
O&M revenue loss for affected station, greater
incentive loss for non-affected stations
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Penalty on trippings
• After two trippings in a year, additional 12 hours
outage shall be considered in addition to the actual
outage.
• In case of outage of transmission element affecting
evacuation of power from the generating station,
outage hour shall be multiplied by a factor of 2.

THINK: How to minimise these outages in your substation/ Transmission Line

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Timeline for Certification of Availability

• Submission of Outage data by transmission licensee
to RLDC/ constituents: by 5th of the following month

• Review of the outage data by RLDC/ constituents and

forward the same to respective RPC: by 20th of the
month.

• Issue of Availability certificate by respective RPC: By

3rd of next month.
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Outage of Elements due to Act of God

» Certification of outage lies with Member Secretary, RPC.

» Linking of outage with SoP regulation has been removed
for outages due to natural calamity. However for
reasonability of the restoration time, Member Secretary
may consult transmission licensee or any expert.
» Circuits restored through ERS (Emergency
Restoration System) shall be considered as available.
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Appeal on Disagreement
» In case of any disagreement with the transmission licensee
regarding reason for outage, same may be referred to Chairperson,
CEA within 30 days. The above need to be resolved within two
months.
» Provided further that if there is a difficulty or delay beyond sixty
days, from the incidence in finalizing the recommendation, the
Member Secretary of concerned RPC shall allow the outage hours
on provisional basis till the final view.
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THINK
» What is the monthly availability for your region/ substation/
transmission line/ profit centre in 2020-21 ?

» How many trippings/ line and trippings/ substation asset

have happened at your profit centre in 2019-20 and 2020-21?

» What were the major outages during the year affecting

availability at your profit centre? Could you have re-planned
some of the outages/ carried out any online maintenance
activity to improve availability?