Dr Ajay Bhushan Pandey appointed first-Chairman of MSPC

Mumbai, July 18 (UNI) The Managing Director of Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Ltd (MSEDCL) Dr Ajay Bhushan Pandey has been appointed as the first-Chairman of the high level Maharashtra State Power Committee (MSPC) for a period of one year.

The MSPC is formed on the guidelines issued by the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission.

To comply with the directives of the MERC, a meeting of the Chief Executives of the State Pool Participants which included MSEDCL, Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission Company Ltd (MSETCL), Tata Power (distribution), Reliance Energy (distribution), BEST undertaking and Maharashtra State Load Dispatch Centre was held recently at HSBC Bank Building, Fort.

The meeting was presided over by the Managing Director of the MSEDCL Mr Subrat Ratho. Members of the MSPC including Dr A B Pandey, General Manager of BEST Mr Uttam Khobragade, Senior Vice-President of Reliance Energy Mr R R Mehta and Senior General Manager of Tata Power Mr Sethi attended the meeting.

The MSPC has been entrusted with the work of coordinating and facilitating the intra-state trading activities by optimal utilisation of resources, review of energy accounting and billing for inter-utility trading of power and ensure settlement of imbalances amongst state pool participants in accordance with the balancing and settlement code order.

It also represents the common interest of the state pool Participants in the matter related to purchase from Central Government Sector, inter-state, inter-regional resources and pertaining to the issues related to Western Region Load Dispatch Centre at the regional level, a release issued here said.

The committee has resolved to meet frequently to address the technical and commercial issues relating to the implementation of the intra-state Availability Based Tariff (ABT) in the state.

The inter-state ABT was introduced by the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission with a view of introducing discipline in the grid operations by dis-incentivising the utilities from over-drawing power at low frequency resulting into the increased system stability.

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