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    "slug": "andhra-pradesh-electricity-regulatory-commission-interim-balancing-and-settlement-code-regulation-2006",
    "title": "Andhra Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (Interim Balancing and Settlement Code) Regulation, 2006",
    "short_title": "Andhra Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (Interim Balancing and Settlement Code) Regulation, 2006",
    "act_number": "(Regulation No. 2 of 2006)",
    "act_year": 2006,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Andhra Pradesh",
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    "description": "Andhra Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (Interim Balancing and Settlement Code) Regulation, 2006",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, Commencement and interpretation.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(a) \"Act\" means the Electricity Act 2003 (36 of 2003);\n(b) \"APERC\" or \"Commission\" means the Andhra Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission:\n(c) \"Billing month\" means the period between any two successive meter-reading dates, as provided in the Open Access Agreement:\n(d) \"Distribution Licensee\" or \"DISCOM\" means a licensee authorised to operate and maintain a distribution system for supplying electricity to the consumers in his area of supply;\n(e) \"Losses\" means the energy losses in percentage for an EHT system as a single system and for all other voltage levels, the losses in percentage as provided in the applicable Tariff Order of the Commission, or the actual levels of energy losses as provided in this Regulation.\n(ii) If the entry and exit points are located within the distribution system (33 kV and below) of the same distribution licensee, the losses would include only the distribution loss of the distribution licensee up to the voltage level at the relevant exit or the entry point(s), whichever is lower.\n(f) \"Scheduled Consumer\" means a consumer who has a supply agreement with the distribution licensee in whose area of supply the consumer is located and also has a supply agreement with a person other than the distribution licensee under the Open Access Regulation and includes a consumer of a distribution licensee who also avails of wheeling facility for carrying the electricity from his captive generating plant to the destination of his own use.\n(g) \"Time Block\" means each block of fifteen (15) minutes for which the energy meters record specified electrical parameters and quantities, with the first time block for a day starting at 00:00 hours.\n(h) \"Open Access Agreement\" means an agreement entered into between the Transmission and/or Distribution Licensees and the persons availing Open Access facility under clause 12 of the Open Access Regulation.\n(i) \"Open Access Consumer\" or \"OA Consumer\" means a consumer not having a supply agreement with the distribution licensee in whose area of supply the consumer is located, but availing or intending to avail supply of energy from a person other than that distribution licensee under the Open Access Regulation and includes a consumer availing wheeling facility for carrying the electricity from his captive generating plant to the destination of his own use without having a supply agreement with the distribution licensee of the area in which the consumer’s premises is located.\n(j) \"Open Access Regulation\" means the A. P. Electricity Regulatory Commission (Terms and Conditions of Open Access) Regulations, 2005 (Regulation No.2 of 2005).\n(k) \"Open Access Generator\" means a generating company using or intending to use the transmission system and/ or the distribution system of the licensees in the State for supply of electricity to a Scheduled Consumer or OA Consumer under the Open Access Regulation.\n(l) \"State\" means the State of Andhra Pradesh.\n(m) \"Wheeling schedule\" means the schedule for a fifteen (15) minute time block provided by the Scheduled Consumer, an OA Consumer or an OA Generator, to the SLDC, pursuant to clause 4 of this Regulation, read with clause 6.\n(n) The words and expressions used in this Regulation and not defined herein but defined in the Open Access Regulation shall have the same meaning as assigned to them in the Open Access Regulation and those not also defined in the Open Access Regulation but defined in the Act, shall have the same meaning as assigned to them in the Act.",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Extent of Application.",
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            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Scheduling.",
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        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Allocation of Capacity by OA Generators.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Revenue of Wheeling Schedule.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Meter Reading, Energy Accounting and Settlement.",
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            "content": "Central Generating Stations (CGS)\nAPGENCO\nIndependent Power Producers (IPPS)\nNon-conventional Energy (NCE) Developers (Biomass, Mini-hydel, Hydro, Wind, etc.) Captive Power Plants (CPs)",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Settlement of Energy/demand at exit Point in Respect of Scheduled Consumer.",
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        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Settlement of Energy at exist point in Respect of OA Consumers.",
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            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Settlement for OA Generators at Entry Point.",
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        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Levy of Surcharge and Additional / Surcharge.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Banking.",
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        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Dispute Resolution.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Issue of Orders and Practice Directions.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Power To Remove Difficulties.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Saving.",
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            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Power to Amend.",
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            "content": "Appendix - 1 (A)\nAppendix - 1 (A)\nFormat for the Day-ahead Wheeling Schedule for each 15 minute time block of the day\nFormat for the Day-ahead Wheeling Schedule for each 15 minute time block of the day\nDate:\nDeclared capacity for the day\nName of the Generator;\nTime block Available Capacity\nTime block\nAvailable Capacity\nAddress of the\n\t\t\t\tGenerating Station:\nEntry point voltage:\nDISCOM\nName of the Consumer\nVoltage level of Exist point\nTime Blocks\nAllocated capacity at Entry point Kw\nNet capacity at Exit point kW\nSignature of the OA Generator /Scheduled Consumer/OA Consumer\nNote. - An example each for computation of Net capacity at Exit point is given in Appendix -1(b) and examples for Settlement are given in Appendix-2\nNote.\nAppendix -1 (B)\nAppendix -1 (B)\nComputation of Net capacity at the Exit point\nDate:\nDeclared capacity for the day\nName of the Generator: Z in SPDCL Entry point voltage: 132 kV\nTime block Available Capacity\nTime block\nAvailable Capacity\nDISCOM\nName of the consumer\nVoltage level of Exit point\nTime Blocks\nAllocated capacity at Entry point kW\nNet capacity at Exit point kW",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Sch. Consr.",
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            "content": "11 kW\n1 to 96\n1,000\n830.80\nSPDCL\n2 Sch. Consr.\n132 kV\n1 to 96\n2,000\n1900.00",
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        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. OA Consr.",
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            "content": "33kV\nlto 96\n1,000\n893.40\nTotal for SPDCL",
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        },
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Sch. Consr.",
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            "content": "11 kV\n1 to 96\n1,000\n827.20\nCPDCL",
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        },
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Sch.Consr.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "33 kV\n1 to 96\n3,000\n2676.60",
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        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. OA Consr.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "132 kV\n1 to 96\n5,000\n4750.00\nTotal for CPDCL",
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        },
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Sch. Consr.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "llkV\n1 to 96\n1,000\n821.00\nNPDCL",
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        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. OA Consr.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "33 kV\n1 to 96\n2,000\n1778.60\nTotal for NPDCL",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Sch. Consr.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "11 kV\n1 to 96\n1,600\n818.90\nEPDCL",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. OA Consr.",
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            "content": "33 kV\n1 to 96\n3,000\n2636.70\nTotal for EPDCL\nGrand Total\n20,000\n17983.20\nTransmission losses = 5% Distribution losses up to the Voltage level of exist point\n(Percentage)\nVoltage\nVoltage\nSPDCL\nSPDCL\nCPDCL\nCPDCL\nNPDCL\nNPDCL\nEPDCL\nEPDCL\n33kV 5.66\n5.66\n5.78\n6.07\n7.11\n11 kV 11.92\n11.92\n12.28\n12.90\n13.11\nLT 20.44\n20.44\n20.50\n23.05\n21.30\nExample for calculation of Losses.\nAppendix -2\nAppendix -2\n(A). Where Generator is Generating at the level of Scheduled Capacity:\n(A). Where Generator is Generating at the level of Scheduled Capacity:\n(kW)\nDISCOM\nConsumer\nSch. Cap at Exist Point\nRecorded consumption\nAccountable to Generator\nAccountable to DISCOM\nDeviation at Exist point",
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        },
        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Sch. Consr.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "830.80\n1000\n830.80\n169.20\nNil\nSPDCL",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Sch. Consr.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "1900.00\n2000\n1900.00\n100.00\nNil",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. OA Consr.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "893.40\n1200\n893.40\n306.60\n306.60",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Sch. Consr.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "827.20\n600\n600.00\n0.00\n(-) 227.70\nCPDCL",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Sch. Consr.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "2676.60\n3000\n2676.60\n323.40\nNil",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. OA Consr.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "4750,00\n4000\n4000.00\n0.00\n(-) 750.00",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Sch. Consr.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "821.00\n1100\n821.00\n279.00\nNil\nNPDCL",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 32
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. OA Consr.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "1778.60\n1900\n1778.60\n121.40\n121.40",
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        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Sch. Consr.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "818.90\n1200\n818.90\n381.10\nNil\nEPDCL",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
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            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. OA Consr.",
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            "content": "2636.70\n2500\n2500.00\n0.00\n(-) 163.30\nScheduled capacity = 20,000 kW Actual capacity = 18,000 kW\nScheduled capacity = 20,000 kW Actual capacity = 18,000 kW\n(kW)\nConsumer\nSch. Cap at Entry Point\nSch. Cap at Exit Point\nActual capacity at Entry point\nActual capacity at Exist point\nRecorded consumption\nDeviation",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Sch. Consr.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "1000\n830.80\n900\n747.72\n1000\n83.08",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Sch. Consr",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "2000\n1900.00\n1800\n1710.00\n2000\n190.00",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. OA Consr.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "1000\n893.40\n900\n804.06\n1200\n395.94",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 38
        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Sch. Consr",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "1000\n827.20\n900\n744.48\n600\n(-) 144.48",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 39
        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Sch. Consr.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "3000\n2676.60\n2700\n2408.94\n3000\n267.66",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 40
        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. OA Consr.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "5000\n4750.00\n4500\n4275.00\n4000\n(-) 275.00",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 41
        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Sch. Consr.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "1000\n821.00\n900\n738.90\n1100\n82.10",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 42
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. OA Consr.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "2000\n1778.60\n1800\n1600.74\n1900\n299.26",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 43
        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Sch. Consr.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "1000\n818.90\n900\n737.01\n1200\n81.89",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
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            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. OA Consr.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "3000\n2636.70\n2700\n2373.03\n2500\n126.97\nAppendix - 3\nAppendix - 3\nTerms and Conditions for banking facility allowed to Wind power and Mini-hydel Power Generators\nTerms and Conditions for banking facility allowed to Wind power and Mini-hydel Power Generators\n(a) The banking year shall be from January to December.\n(b) The banking charges shall be in kind @ 2% of the energy delivered at the point of injection.\n(c) Drawals shall be permitted only during the 6-month period, from July to December. The banked energy remaining unutilized as on 31st December shall be treated as lapsed.\n(d) Drawal of banked energy during the peak hours i.e. 06:00 to 09:00 hours and 18:00 hours to 21:00 hours shall not be permitted.",
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "Last Updated 24th September, 2019 [ap593]",
        "Act Number": "(Regulation No. 2 of 2006)",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "2006",
        "Short Title": "Andhra Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (Interim Balancing and Settlement Code) Regulation, 2006",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Andhra Pradesh"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:18"
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