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Date: 2015-03-23 Category: Extra Ordinary State: Union Government Country: India

The Delhi Electricity Supply Code and Performance Standards (Amendment) Regulations, 2015

Issued by Government of The National Capital Territory of Delhi · Delhi Electricity Regularity Commission

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Executive Summary: This notification from the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission amends the "Delhi Electricity Supply Code and Performance Standards Regulations, 2007." The amendments, effective from the date of publication in the official Gazette, concern electricity connections in electrified colonies and service line cum development charges. It outlines revised procedures and timelines for new connections and associated fees. Key Points / Main Content: Electricity Connection in Electrified Colonies Areas: Application Submission: Applicants can apply for new connections using the prescribed form (ANNEXEI) or online. Applicants must indicate if they wish to provide their own meter at the time of application. The Licensee must issue a dated receipt, and any deficiencies in the application must be communicated in writing within 2 days. If no deficiencies are communicated within 2 days, the application is deemed accepted. Field Inspection: The Licensee must inspect the premises within 3 days of application acceptance with the applicant or their representative present. The Licensee can reject the load sanction if the application information is false, the installation is defective, or the energization violates regulations, and must inform the applicant in writing. Load Sanction and Demand Note: The Licensee must sanction the load and issue a demand note with a breakdown of applicable charges within 4 days of the field inspection. The Licensee can collect payment at the time of application, subject to completion of all commercial formalities. The Licensee is obligated to energize the connection upon payment of the demand note. Applicants must make the payment within 3 days of receiving the demand note, with a provision for a written request for an extension. Energization of Connection: The Licensee must energize the connection within 5 days of receiving payment, provided it can be done from the existing network, using a correct meter. The obligation to energize arises only after full payment. Failure to provide connection within the specified period results in compensation to the applicant as per Schedule III. The Licensee is not responsible for delays due to reasons outside of their control, provided they are communicated to the applicant. The first bill must be issued within two billing cycles of energizing the connection; failure to do so results in compensation as per Schedule III. Interest on Security Deposit: Interest on security deposits will be paid at 6% per annum, or any other rate prescribed by the Commission, payable annually. The interest accrued will be adjusted in the first bill of the ensuing financial year. Service Line cum Development Charges: Table 4 of Regulation 30 is substituted with updated charges based on sanctioned load: Up to 5 kW: Rs. 3000 More than 5kW up to 10kW: Rs. 7000 More than 10kW up to 20kW: Rs. 11000 More than 20kW up to 50kW: Rs. 16000 More than 50kW up to 100kW: Rs. 31000 More than 100kW up to 200kW: Rs. 215kVA More than 100kW at 11kV: 50% of the cost of HT Cables/linesswitchgear Impact Analysis: Applicants for New Electricity Connections: Impact: Revised procedures and timelines for obtaining new electricity connections in electrified colonies, including application processes, inspections, and payment terms. Action Required: Familiarize themselves with the new application process, ensure all required documents are submitted, and adhere to the payment timelines. Licensees (Electricity Distribution Companies): Impact: Changes to the mandated processes and timelines for processing new connection requests, conducting inspections, issuing demand notes, and energizing connections. They are also responsible for paying interest on security deposits and adhering to compensation guidelines for delays. Action Required: Update internal processes to comply with the new regulations, train staff on the revised procedures, and ensure systems are in place to track and meet the stipulated timelines. Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission: Impact: Responsible for overseeing the implementation of these amended regulations and ensuring compliance by the licensees. Action Required: Monitor the performance of licensees in adhering to the new regulations and take appropriate action in case of non-compliance.

Key Entities Referenced

Electricity Act 2003: A law enacted by the Government of India related to electricity regulation. It is referenced in the context of exercising powers conferred by section 50 and sections 57, 86 and 181. Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission: The regulatory body responsible for electricity regulation in Delhi. It is the entity issuing the regulations and exercising powers under the Electricity Act 2003. Delhi Electricity Supply Code and Performance Standards Regulations, 2007: The principal regulations being amended by the current notification. National Capital Territory of Delhi: The formal name for the Delhi region, the area to which these regulations apply. Delhi Electricity Supply Code and Performance Standards Amendment Regulations, 2015: The short title of the regulations being enacted. Schedule III: A component of the Delhi Electricity Supply Code and Performance Standards Regulations, likely containing details on compensation for failure to provide connection. ANNEXEI: Form prescribed in ANNEXEI to these Regulations. The Applicant shall make requisition for new connection in the form. Government of India Press, Ring Road, Mayapuri, New Delhi: Govt of India publishing and printing office
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TV as it% (w) 1 5 I4le11cfid(cid:9) cien 3000 2. 5 t S 10 W.cIld clo 7000 3. 10 t a 20 f4.4Ic fteo 11000 4. 20 t(cid:9) 3T(ET(cid:9) 50 lt.41-d(cid:9) 04) 16000 5 50 t a 100 f0'.41d(cid:9) cico 3 1000 6. 100 F1(cid:9) 311W 200 f.4id/215 lt.cfid T. 310/IR 04) 7. loo it.clic ik S (11 cM31 041) 'Wf "4"4art/eftl./ (cid:9) GRl ilk 5l 50% eiliftl m-94(cid:9) wrA9 DELHI ELECTRICITY REGULATORY COMMISSION NOTIFICATION Delhi, the 23rd March, 2015 F.17(85)/Engg/DERC/2013-14 C.F.No.4074/4903.—In exercise of the powers conferred by section 50 of the Electricity Act 2003, read with sections 57, 86 and 181 of the Electricity Act, the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission hereby makes the following Regulations to amend the "Delhi Electricity Supply Code and Performance Standards Regulations, 2007" (hereinafter referred to as "the Principal Regulations"), as follows: 1.0(cid:9) Short title and commencement (1) These regulations may be called the Delhi Electricity Supply Code and Performance Standards (Amendment) Regulations, 2015. (2) These regulations shall come into effect from the date of their publication in the official Gazette. 2.0(cid:9) Amendment of Regulation 16 of Principal Regulations: The Regulation 16 of the Principal Regulations on 'Electricity Connection in Electrified Colonies/ Areas' shall be substituted by the following, namely: 16.(cid:9) Electricity Connection in Electrified Colonies/Areas The licensee shall process any application for new connection submitted along with other necessary documents within the time frame as given below:4(cid:9) DELHI GAZETTE : EXTRAORDINARY(cid:9) [PART III (1)(cid:9) Submission of application along with all documents (i) The Applicant shall make requisition for new connection in the form prescribed in ANNEXE-I to these Regulations or as approved by the Commission from time to time. The applicant can also make requisition for new connection online on the website of Licensee. If the Applicant wishes to provide the meter himself, he shall explicitly inform the same to the Licensee at the time of making the application. (ii) The Licensee shall issue dated receipt to the applicant and any deficiencies in the application shall be intimated in writing within 2 days of receipt of application. The application shall be considered to be accepted only on removal of such deficiencies. In case consumer has not been intimated within stipulated 2 days about any deficiencies in his application, the application shall be deemed to have been accepted by the Licensee on the date of submission of the application as at (i) above. (2)(cid:9) Field Inspection (cid:9) (i) The Licensee shall inspect the Premises in the presence of the applicant or his representative within 3 days from the date of acceptance of the application. If upon inspection, the Licensee finds that; (a) any information as famished in the application is false, or (b) the installation is defective, or (c) the energisation would be in violation of any provision of the Act/Electricity Rulesi [anti Order. The Licensee shall not sanction the load and shall intimate the applicant the reasons thereof in writing. (cid:9) (3) Load Sanction and Demand Note (i) Save as otherwise provided in the Act or these Regulations, the Licensee shall sanction the load and raise a demand note in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations under proper receipt to the applicant, giving breakup of the estimate of applicable charges including security deposit for providing such connection. (ii) The. Licensee shall issue the demand note within 4 days of field inspection as in (2) above. A Licensee may at the request of the Applicant collect payment at the time of making the application which shall be received on account and subject to completion of all commercial formalities. (iii) Once a demand note is raised, the Licensee shall be under obligation to energise the connection subject to the condition of payment of demand as per sub clause (iv) of this clause. (iv) The applicant shall make the payment within 3 days of receipt of demand note. Provided that in case the applicant faces difficulty in making the payment within 3 days, he shall request the Licensee, in writing, for an extension of time. The time thus extended shall not be counted in working out the total time taken for energisation of connection by Licensee and no compensation for delay in connection under section 43 of the Act, shall be payable for the said period. (4)(cid:9) Energisation of Connection (i) The Licensee shall energise the connection within 5 days from the date of receipt of the payment, through a correct meter as notified by the Authority under section 55 of the Act, if such connection is to be provided from the existing network. (ii) The Licensee's obligation to energize the connection shall arise only after receipt of the full payment but the total time period shall be as stipulated in Section 43 of the Act or as amended from time to time. (iii) In case the Licensee fails to provide connection to an applicant within a period specified in sub-section (1) to (4) above, he shall be liable to pay the applicant, compensation as per Schedule III of these Regulations after necessary hearing by the appropriate authority. Such compensation shall be adjusted in the first bill and, if required, in subsequent bills of the applicant.5 DELHI GAZETTE: EXTRAORDINARY PART III] The Licensee shall, however, not be held responsible for delay in providing the (iv) connection, if the same is on account of reasons such as right of way, acquisition of land, delay in permission for road cutting, over which Licensee has no control provided that the reasons for the delay are communicated to the applicant within the period specified for energisation. The Licensee shall issue the first bill within two billing cycles of energising the (v)(cid:9) connection. In case, the consumer does not receive the first bill within two billing cycles from the date of energizing of the connection, he shall complain, in writing, to the Licensee and the Licensee shall issue the bill within next fourteen days. In, any case, if a bill is not raised within four billing cycles from the date of energizing the connection, the Licensee shall pay compensation as specified in Schedule III of the Regulations. Interest on Security Deposit (5)(cid:9) The amount of security deposit shall be as per the Regulation 29 or as approved by (i)(cid:9) the Commission from time to time. The Licensee shall pay interest to the consumer at the rate of 6% per annum, or any other rate prescribed by the Commission payable annually on such deposit w.e.f. date of such deposit in cases of new connection energized after the date of this notification or in other cases, from the date of notification of these regulations. The interest accrued during the year shall be adjusted in the bill for the first billing cycle of the ensuing financial year. 3.0(cid:9) Amendment of Romani:Ion(cid:9) nincipal Ilegulatizms: The Table 4 of Regulation 30 of the Principal Regulations on 'Service line cum development (SW) Charges' shall be substituted by the following, namely: •11 Table 4 Service Line cum Development Charge Amount (Its.) S.No. Sanctioned Load 3000 I Upto 5 kW .7000 2. More than 5kW upto 10kW 11000 3. More than 10kW upto 20kW 16000 4. More than 20kW upto 50kW 31000 5. More than 50kW upto 100kW Rs.310/kVA 6. More than 100kW upto 200kW/215kVA 50% of the cost of HT 7. More than 100kW (at I IkV) Cables/lines/switchgear JAYSHREE RAGHURAMAN, Secy. 36 Li DO/IS-2- Printed by the Manager, Government of India Press, Ring Road, Mayapuri, New Delhi-110064 and Published by the Controller of Publications, Delhi-110054.

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