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Karnataka Power Reforms - Metering and Billing |
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- KPTCL is presently serving about 10 million consumersof all
categories. About 30% of them supplied power without any metering (mainly irrigation
pumpsets, and Bhagyajothi installations). KPTCL would provide in future meters for all new
connections. It will also be required to install meters to bill the unmetered consumers
before 2004. It will implement tariffs which are reflective of costs of supply and which
discourage use of electricity during peak hours, thus strengthening Energy Conservation
and DSM Measures. Effective measures to implement the existing provisions under the I.E
Act, 1910 for theft of energy are proposed to be introduced.
- The elements of cross subsidy in the present tariff structure
are very substantial, and the burden is taken by industrial and commercial consumers.As as
result many industries resorted to captive generation, and sales to this category has come
down over the years. This has resulted in the worsening of the financial health of KPTCL.
This distortion is proposed to be rectified and the element of cross subsidy will ve
minimized. As indicated earlier, tariffs will be designed to reflect costs. Wherever, the
tariffs has to be kept low, for social and economical reasons, the Government would
intervene and provide subsidies.
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