‘Punjab violating tariff order’
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 1
A petition has been filed before the Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission (PSERC) demanding the state government to compensate Powercom in case it overdraws power from the central grid.

The petition, filed by engineer Gurnek Singh Brar, demands that the PSERC should give advance payments for such overdrawls.

Brar has also claimed that Powercom has been flouting the tariff order of the commission. He said in working out the energy purchase requirement of the state for 2010-11, the commission had determined the gross power purchase requirement as 15,070 million units.

However, the actual availability as determined by the commission was 15,619 mu with nil power purchase in short term through traders and nil energy through grid overdrawl. The commission assessed that there was a surplus of 549 mu that was valued at Rs 137.25 crore and the power purchase requirement allowed to the PSEB was accordingly reduced from Rs 3,911 crore to Rs 3,774 crore.