Power 'feeder' for city highrises soon

NEW DELHI/ GURGAON: Haryana will soon launch two key reforms in power distribution in urban areas. The state-owned electricity discoms are to kick off "reliable feeders" for electricity supply to condominiums, other residential and commercial zones in urban areas, particularly in Gurgaon and Faridabad. The second plan is "bulk supply" of power to RWAs at the entry point of residential areas and in this case the residents' bodies would be responsible for internal distribution and bill collection.

While the first proposal is being mooted by the two state-owned discoms, the second one has been proposed by the state electricity regulator. Sources said that the discoms would soon submit their views on this proposal. "Since power distribution infrastructures are already laid inside condominiums and the residents' bodies maintain them, it won't be a bad idea to supply them power from a feeder at the entry points. The billing would be at the bulk supply level and the associations responsible for bill collection cannot charge more than the tariff fixed by the power regulator," a senior Haryana government official said.

Inthe case of "reliable feeder" scheme, chairman and managing director of two state-owned discoms, Devender Singh, said that the average unit cost would be higher by, say, around Rs 7 or Rs 8 per unit. "But there would be at least 95% reliability so far as power supply is concerned. This high cost would be much less than the cost of electricity generated from gensets or even with inverter back-up," he claimed.

At present, some of the condominiums in Gurgaon and Faridabad charge as high as Rs 14 per unit for back-up power supply. Failure on the part of discoms to ensure assured supply would invite penalty. "We have already got requests from residents' welfare associations located on Sohna Road and in South City. Those going for open access scheme would also opt for this," a senior DHBVN official said. Open access scheme means a bulk consumer can purchase power directly from any part of the country and can use the distribution network by paying a certain fee.

Singh said the discoms would take this proposal to the Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission (HERC) and would invite suggestions and objections from consumers.

He added that after the proposal of handing over power distribution to a private franchisee at the city level failed to take off, now the discoms have prepared a plan to try "feeder level franchisee" where two models would be tried. In the first case, the private players or cooperative societies can take up the entire responsibility of distribution and revenue collection of a particular feeder for a certain years. The second model would only be handing over the responsibility of revenue collection from consumers. "In both the cases, our aim is to reduce losses," Singh said.

At present, while each unit of electricity costs about Rs 7 to the discoms, the average revenue per unit is Rs 4.5.

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