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About RERC

On 25th September 1995, Rajasthan Power Sector Reforms Bill (Reform Bill) was approved by the legislative Assembly of Rajasthan. This bill became effective from June 1, 2000 after it got the Presidential Assent on Dec 28,1999. Afterwards, Rajasthan Electricity Regulatory Commission (RERC) was established in January 2000.

The Commission consists of a Honourable Chairperson, 2 Members, Secretary, along with Directors, Deputy Directors and Assistant Directors of respective fields.

Organisation

On 19th July 2000, erstwhile power utility RSEB unbundled into following new entities:

Rajasthan RajyaVidyutUtpadan Nigam Limited(RVUN), to operate and maintain the existing state owned power stations
Rajasthan RajyaVidyutPrasaran Nigam Limited (RVPN), to undertake the function of transmission and bulk supply of electricity in Rajasthan and also own the rights in shared inter-state partnership projects.
The distribution function was separated from RSEB and bifurcated into three Distribution Companies, registered under the Companies Act namely, JaipurVidyutVitran Nigam Limited, Ajmer VidyutVitran Nigam Limited and Jodhpur VidyutVitran Nigam Limited

RERC
- GENCO
  - RVUN
- TRANSCO
  - RVPN
- DISCOM
  - JVVNL
  - AVVNL
  - JdVVNL

RERC Snaphot of power sector

Installed Capacity -

The installed capacity as on 31.08.2020 for Rajasthan power utilities including allocated shares in joint & central sector utilities are as follows:

	Thermal
Ownership/Sector	Coal	Lignite	Gas	Diesel	Total
State	6920.00	250.00	603.80	0.00	7773.80
Private	2957.00	1080.00	0.00	0.00	4037.00
Central	985.57	250.00	221.10	0.00	1456.67
Sub - Total	10862.57	1580.00	824.90	0.00	13267.47

Ownership/Sector	Nuclear	Hydro	RES(MNRE)
State	0.00	433.00	23.85
Private	0.00	104.00	9387.75
Central	556.74	1402.19	344.00
Sub - Total	556.74	1939.19	9755.60

So: CEA (http://cea.nic.in/reports/monthly/installedcapacity/2020/installed_capacity-08.pdf)
Thus, the total installed capacity in the state of Rajasthan is 25519MW.

Share of Renewables -

Breakup of RE in Rajasthan has been provided in the following table. All these values are in MW, and as on 14th September, 2020

Small Hydro Power	Wind Power	Bio-Power	Solar Power	Total Capacity
23.85	4299.72	121.25	5310.78	9755.58

So: https://npp.gov.in/dashBoard/cp-map-dashboard

Energy Sales -

Energy Sales approved by the Commission for FY 2019-20 in (MU)

Particulars	JVVNL	AVVNL	JdVVNL	Total
Domestic	5,810	3,879	3,667	13,355
Non-Domestic	2,608	1,367	1,305	5,279
Public Street Light	179	90	97	366
Agriculture	7,170	5,578	11,270	24,016
Small Industry	331	273	216	820
Medium Industry	830	894	696	2,420
Large Industry	7,202	4,751	1,722	13,675
Public Water Works	720	721	950	2391
Mixed Load / Bulk Supply	195	115	407	718
Total	25,045	17,668	20,330	63,040

So: https://energy.rajasthan.gov.in/content/dam/raj/energy/avvnl/pdf/Tariff/ARR_&_Tariff_Order_FY20.pdf

Last 5 ACoS -

Utilities	FY 16	FY 17	FY 18	FY 19	FY 20
JVVNL	7.04	7.52	7.40	6.97	8.60
AVVNL	7.64	7.62	7.33	7.17	8.53
JdVVNL	6.86	6.88	6.97	6.95	7.67

Latest Documents

S. No.	Reg No.	Date	Name of the Regulations (dates of subsequent amendments are given in bracket)
1	137	11/05/2020	RERC(Service) (Sixth Amendment) Regulations, 2020
2	136	28/02/2020	RERC (Terms and Conditions for Determination of Tariff) (First Amendment) Regulations, 2020.
3	135	04/02/2020	RERC (Renewable Energy Obligation) (Sixth Amendment) Regulations, 2020
4	134	28/01/2020	RERC (Forecasting, Scheduling, Deviation Settlement and Related Matters of Solar and Wind Generation Sources) (First Amendment) Regulations, 2020
5	133	22/01/2020	RERC (Settlement of Disputes by Electricity Ombudsman) (2nd Amendment) Regulations, 2020
6	132	10/05/2019	RERC(Terms and Conditions for Determination of Tariff) Regulations, 2019
7	131	14/02/2019	RERC (Service)(Fifth Amendment) Regulations, 2019
8	130	05/03/2019	RERC (Deviation Settlement Mechanism and related matters) (First Amendment) Regulations, 2019
9	129	05/03/2019	RERC (Terms and Conditions for Determination of Tariff for Renewable Energy Sources- Biomass, Biogas and Biomass Gasifier Energy) (First Amendment) Regulations, 2019
10	128	05/03/2019	RERC(Terms and Conditions for determination of tariff for Renewable Energy Sources-Wind and Solar Energy) (Second Amendment) Regulations, 2019
11	127	05/03/2019	RERC (Connectivity and Net Metering for Rooftop and Small Solar Grid Interactive Systems) (First Amendment) Regulations, 2019
12	126	05/03/2019	RERC (Renewable Energy Certificate and Renewable Purchase Obligation Compliance Framework) (Third Amendment) Regulations, 2019

Orders

S. No.	Petition No	Party Name	Subject	Order Date
1	1587/2020	Rajasthan Vidyut Prasaran Nigam Ltd.	In the matter of approval of true up for FY 2018-19 and ARR and Tariff for FY 2020-21 of Transmission and SLDC	12/10/2020
2	1590/2019	Rajasthan Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd.	Approval of True up of ARR for FY 2018-19 and Determination of ARR and Tariff for FY 2020-21 for RVUN power stations	11/09/2020
3	1579/2019	Rajasthan Vidyut Prasaran Nigam Ltd.	Approval of Additional Expenditure for FY 2018-19	11/09/2020
4	1586/19	Giral Lignite Power Limited	In the matter of APR for FY 2018-19 and approval of ARR and Tariff for FY 2020-21 for Giral Lignite Power Limited (GLPL) (Units 1-2)	17/08/2020
5	1591/19	Rajasthan Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd.	Determination of ARR and Tariff for FY 2020-21 for Kalisindh Thermal Power Project (Units 1 and 2)	11/08/2020
6	1581/19	Rajasthan Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd.	Approval of Additional Capitalization for up-gradation of C and I system of Stage I Unit 2 of Suratgarh Thermal Power Station	21/07/2020
7	1611/20	Rajasthan Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd.	In-principle approval of additional capitalization for up-gradation of HMI servers of Gas Turbine and HMI workstation of Max DNA system of Dholpur Combined Cycle Power Plant	21/07/2020
8	593/16	Barmer Lignite Mining Company Ltd.	determination of transfer price of lignite from Kapurdi and Jalipa mines for FY 2011-12 to FY 2019-20	09/07/2020
9	1546/19	RVUNL	Approval of APR for FY 2013-14 to FY 2017-18 for Chhabra Thermal Power Project Units 3 and 4	27/05/2020
10	1515/2019	RVUNL	Determination of Final Capital Cost and ARR and Tariff for FY 2014-15 to FY 2019-20 for Kalisindh Thermal Power Project (Unit 1 and 2)	12/05/2020
11	-	Sou-motu	Tariff for sale of power from Wind and Biomass power projects	29/04/2020
12	I.A. No. 2 of 2020 in Petition No. 1583/19	M/s JSW Energy (Barmer) Ltd.	Interim tariff for FY 2020-21	23/04/2020
13	1590/19	RUVNL	Interim tariff for Chhabra Super Critical Thermal Power Plant Unit (5-6) for FY 2020-21	23/04/2020

Officers Contact

S. No.

Name

Designation

Sh. Shreemat Pandey

Name	Sh. Shreemat Pandey
Designation	Chairman
Contact	2742337
Shri Shreemat Pandey

Chairman

2742337

Sh. S.C. Dinkar

Name	Sh. S.C. Dinkar
Designation	Member
Contact No.	2741106
Shri Suresh Chandra Dinkar

Member

2741106

2357697

Sh. Prithvi Raj

Name	Sh. Prithvi Raj
Designation	Member
Contact	2741091
Shri Prithvi Raj

Member

2741091

Sh. B.K. Dosi

Name	Sh. B.K. Dosi
Designation	Secretary
Contact No.	2740067
-

Secretary

2740067

Sh. Tarun Mathur

Name	Sh. Tarun Mathur
Designation	Director (Tech.)
Contact	9001069827
-

Director (Tech.)

9001069827

2593928

Sh. Himanshu Khurana

Name	Sh. Himanshu Khurana
Designation	Director (Tech.)
Contact No.	9829500490
-

Director (Tech.)

9829500490

2620679

Sh. B.L. Gupta

Name	Sh. B.L. Gupta
Designation	Director(Fin.)
Contact	9928143323
-

Director(Fin.)

9928143323

3144755

Sh. D.K. mathur

Name	Sh. D.K. mathur
Designation	Deputy Director (Admn)
Contact No.	-
-

Deputy Director (Admn)

Sh. Dinesh Khandelwal

Name	Sh. Dinesh Khandelwal
Designation	Deputy Director (Tech.)
Contact	9829099357
-

Deputy Director (Tech.)

9829099357

Sh. P.K. Garg

Name	Sh. P.K. Garg
Designation	Deputy Director (Tech.)
Contact No.	-
-

Deputy Director (Tech.)

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