Government Public Enemy - RIL & Ambani Companies
February06, 2014
To, DERC, ATE, CAG,
Entire Power Sector Comes Under The Jurisdiction of ATE, CAG - It
Should INVESTIGATE PUBLIC LOOT OF ALL RIL & Ambani Companies. Ambanis
are Looters Number One - RIL acquired 25-28 Oil & Gas blocks from 1999
but invest just $15 million on one drilling in 6-8 years when each
block required 50 drillings a years at least, but capitalized over
$10b against $1b for PETROBRAS P-52 or P-56 Deep Sea projects much
bigger in scale and depth. Gas production by RIL from OIL & Gas Blocks
is practically nothing - [1] Instead of cheap gas promised for 100
years we are paying 10 times more for meager supply - most of Gas
Based Power Plants are down. [2.] SASAN Project with 800 million tones
of Cheap Coal & Rs.1.19/unit PPA is delayed.
Ambanis are Criminal Minds - in first picture BRPL provides Lame Duck
service through unskilled Labor Hired On Contract NEXT to DERC Office.
[3] THIS RESULTS IN LONG FREQUENT POWER CUTS & CONSUMERS & FORCED TO
INSTALL INVERTORS & GENERATIONS AND INCUR Rs.5000 to Rs.8000 THEIR O&M
COST ANNUALLY and as given second picture Their Meters are run fast -
at Distribution Transformer single phase supply voltage is 230V but at
tail end consumer 248V this is say 10% more than required or 20% more
Units Billed for most loads. [4] This 20% Fast Running of meters
INCEASE CONSUMER BILLS BY 30% CHARGED AT HIGHER SLAB.
BRPL-BYPL hired Teams of Meter Checking & Bill Recovery Agents fully
recovered in 60 days- a] Billing Loss, b.] Metering Loss, c.]
Collection Loss, which adds up to 30 points but Didn't Declare
Recovery - [5] 25% Siphoning of Collections.
BRPL-BYPL - DIRECT+INDIRECT PUBLIC LOSS = Rs.50,000 Cr
Thank you,
Faithfully,
Ravinder Singh*
Inventor & Consultant
Y-77, Hauz Khas,
New Delhi - 110016
Ph: 9650421857
*Ravinder Singh is a WIPO awarded inventor specializing in Power,
Transportation, Water, Energy Saving, Agriculture, Manufacturing,
Technologies and Projects.
Delhi Scouts for Cos to Replace Discoms
Appellate tribunal stops power regulator from passing an order on
termination of discoms' licence without its consent
OUR BUREAU NEW DELHI
The Kejriwal government raised the pitch in its battle with
Delhi's power distribution companies by reaching out to companies to
replace the incumbents but an appellate tribunal intervened and asked
the regulator not to pass an order on termination without its consent.
Official sources said the Delhi government had begun exploratory talks
with several distribution companies from across the country, which can
step in if licenses of BSES Yamuna and BSES Rajdhani of Anil Ambani's
Reliance group are terminated. "Several power distribution companies
have shown interest. However, most of these meetings are
unstructured," a source in the Delhi government said.
Companies from Gujarat, Maharashtra and West Bengal have responded,
the source said, without identifying them. Apart from the Tatas and
Reliance Infrastructure of the Anil Ambani group that supply
electricity in Delhi and Mumbai, companies involved in distribution in
other regions include CESC in Kolkata, Torrent in Ahmedabad,
Gandhinagar, Surat, Agra and Bhiwandi, GTL in Maharashtra and DPSC in
West Bengal and Bihar.
A director of one of these firms said the management was not aware of
any such discussion but he could not rule out that the promoter may
have been sounded. Another top executive at a discoms said the
Kejriwal government would face huge regulatory and legal challenges in
its bid to replace the licensees. In any case no private player would
be willing to take over Delhi's distribution infrastructure in present
circumstances particularly if BSES does not cooperate, the executive
said. The Delhi government holds 49% equity in the discoms.
Earlier, the Delhi government asked the regulator to terminate the
licenses if the companies carry out their threat of large scale power
cuts on the ground that they have no money to purchase electricity.
The government has argued that the regulator would have fixed the
tariff keeping the costs in mind, as required by the law, and in this
circumstance it is unlawful to blackout parts of Delhi by saying the
discom has no money.
In an on-going case between BSES and the state electricity regulator
on claims of money to be recovered from customers the tribunal
restrained the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) from
taking any hasty step. BSES claims that it needs to recover over Rs
15,000 crore from 32 lakh electricity consumers of Delhi - a move that
the regulator has opposed. During the hearing of this case on
Wednesday, BSES discoms advocates expressed their apprehensions before
the tribunal that the DERC may pass orders that may be prejudicial to
the his clients. They requested tribunal members to prevent DERC from
passing final order in the matter relating to suspension of licenses.
Tribunal Chairman Justice M Karpaga Vinayagam and member Rakesh Nath,
in their order said, "Having regard to the urgency of the matter, we
deem it appropriate to direct the Appellants (BSES discoms) to appear
before the Delhi Commission on 6.2.2014 and make their submissions
with regard to the letter of Government and Delhi Commission may
continue to proceed with the matter by hearing the parties concerned,
but the Commission is directed not to pass the final order in the
above proceedings without leave of the Tribunal during the pendency of
these IAs (Interim Applications)."
Commenting on the development, DERC chairman PD Sudhakar said, "We
will go by the order from the Appellate Tribunal. We have heard about
such order but DERC has not received its copy from the appellate
during the day." He has asked the BSES discoms executives to appear
before the commission on Thursday with regard to the Kejriwal
government's demand for cancellation of their licenses.
A spokesman for BSES Rajdhani, which is also claiming to have lack of
funds to pay its lead power supplier and state run NTPC, said that the
company has sought cooperation of Delhi government and to resolve
matter in interest of its 19 lakh consumers. "For issuing letters of
credit, BSES Rajdhani requested NTPC to follow consistent practice of
past 18 months and allow us reinstatement in 30 days. However, NTPC
rejected plea and sought LCs within 7 days," said the spokesperson. He
added that there is no current default in payments to NTPC against
power supplies and the power producer is not at any risk of default.
This week, Delhi Power Secretary Puneet Goel wrote to the regulator to
cancel the electricity distribution licenses of private discoms, which
are unable to supply reliable power to the consumers in view of lack
of funds. Subsequently, Arvind Kejriwal himself wrote to Lt Governor
Najeeb Jung saying that there may not be any option with electricity
regulator but to revoke licenses of discoms and take over their
operation.
AAP keen on Tata Power if BSES discoms suspended
Govt Prefers 'Good Boy' Distributor, But It's DERC's Call
Richi Verma TNN
New Delhi: The inability of Reliance Infra's BSES discoms to handle
their finances might help competitor Tata Power Delhi land a windfall.
According to sources, Delhi government, which is seriously thinking of
suspending the licence of BSES Rajdhani and BSES Yamuna if there are
outages from next week, is also exploring the option of handing over
administrative control of the two utilities to the Tata company.
However, the BSES companies can breathe somewhat easy as
suspending their licence won't be simple. The Appellate Tribunal of
Electricity on Wednesday directed Delhi Electricity Regulatory
Commission (DERC) not to pass any final order on the matter without
its consent.
Power sector officials said only DERC had the authority to grant
administrative control to another entity if a licence was suspended.
Delhi government officials conceded this matter was not in their
jurisdiction but sources said they were looking at other discoms.
"Administrative control can be given to any organization, government
body or private individual. This is a decision that has to be taken by
DERC,'' said a top government official.
But sources indicated that Tata Power may be approached as it has
experience in distributing power in Delhi and a much better track
record than BSES. POWER GAMES
Tata Power has experience of distributing power in Delhi and a
much better track record than the BSES discoms
NTPC says it has never faced any payment problems with Tata Power
while the BSES companies are regular defaulters
BSES discoms say any move to suspend their licences would be
arbitrary and illegal; blame DERC for their financial mess NTPC sticks
to 1-wk ultimatum
The National Thermal Power Corporation, which has put BSES discoms
on a week's notice over dues, is not willing to give an inch in its
dealing with the BSES discoms. While BSES Yamuna was silent on the
regulation notice from NTPC, sister concern BSES Rajdhani is battling
it out. Delhi is staring at 10-hour outages from next week if the
NTPC-BSES standoff continues.
BSES won't back off without a fight
DERC officials on Wednesday said it was too early to comment on
suspension of licence of the BSES discoms and they would not speculate
on administrative control being handed over to anyone else.
"Alternative arrangements will have to be made in the event of
suspension. We will hear the BSES discoms on Thursday to see what can
be done in the current situation with NTPC,'' said chairperson P D
Sudhakar.
Administrative control for the duration of licence suspension is
given for a maximum of one year under Electricity Act and can be
withdrawn by the regulator any time if it feels the suspended discom
has improved its situation. It could also open the doors for Tata
Power to get into distribution in parts of Delhi outside its
jurisdiction of north and northwest Delhi. The government is also
looking at other power distribution firms outside Delhi.
Transmission utility Delhi Transco is also being considered for the job.
Tata Power CEO Praveer Sinha told TOI they would require a lot of
preparation before committing on any new venture. The discom's
positive track record gives it a huge advantage. Barring the CAG
audit, Tata Power so far has not had any confrontation with the AAP
government on performance issues and was even praised by then chief
minister Sheila Dikshit on several occasions. NTPC has also said on
record that they have never faced any payment problems with this
company while the BSES companies were regular defaulters.
Tata Power has also consistently over-achieved on AT&C loss
reduction target levels and has successfully paid dividends from 2005
to 2009 to the government in a range of 10%-18%. The AT&C loss level
in north Delhi was 53% during privatization in 2002 and the latest
target level was 11% set by DERC. Tata Power officials say they have
brought it down to less than 10%. The total dividend paid to the
government is Rs 117.21 crore.
BSES Rajdhani and BSES Yamuna, however, have no intention of
backing off without a fight. They say any move to suspend their
licence would be arbitrary and illegal and have blamed DERC for their
current financial mess. The tribunal order on Wednesday came as a huge
relief for the two power companies as it can stall any suspension
order. "The tribunal's direction is a judicial order and will have to
be followed,'' confirmed Sudhakar. The tribunal's direction came as
part of an ongoing case of the BSES discoms against DERC over the
issue of pending regulatory assets. The BSES companies had appealed to
the tribunal "not to proceed with the said proceedings and pass a
final order in the matter relating to suspension of licence.''
Licence suspension is a long drawn out process under which a show
cause notice will be served to the defaulting discoms and adequate
hearings held where BSES will be allowed to present their case. In
December 2011, the regulator had served a suspension notice to the
BSES discoms who were facing similar financial difficulties and could
not pay generating stations due to a cash flow crisis.
At that time, the situation was resolved only when the Sheila
Dikshit government infused Rs 500 crore as equity in the debt-ridden
BSES companies to enable them get a bank loan.
February06, 2014
To, DERC, ATE, CAG,
Entire Power Sector Comes Under The Jurisdiction of ATE, CAG - It
Should INVESTIGATE PUBLIC LOOT OF ALL RIL & Ambani Companies. Ambanis
are Looters Number One - RIL acquired 25-28 Oil & Gas blocks from 1999
but invest just $15 million on one drilling in 6-8 years when each
block required 50 drillings a years at least, but capitalized over
$10b against $1b for PETROBRAS P-52 or P-56 Deep Sea projects much
bigger in scale and depth. Gas production by RIL from OIL & Gas Blocks
is practically nothing - [1] Instead of cheap gas promised for 100
years we are paying 10 times more for meager supply - most of Gas
Based Power Plants are down. [2.] SASAN Project with 800 million tones
of Cheap Coal & Rs.1.19/unit PPA is delayed.
Ambanis are Criminal Minds - in first picture BRPL provides Lame Duck
service through unskilled Labor Hired On Contract NEXT to DERC Office.
[3] THIS RESULTS IN LONG FREQUENT POWER CUTS & CONSUMERS & FORCED TO
INSTALL INVERTORS & GENERATIONS AND INCUR Rs.5000 to Rs.8000 THEIR O&M
COST ANNUALLY and as given second picture Their Meters are run fast -
at Distribution Transformer single phase supply voltage is 230V but at
tail end consumer 248V this is say 10% more than required or 20% more
Units Billed for most loads. [4] This 20% Fast Running of meters
INCEASE CONSUMER BILLS BY 30% CHARGED AT HIGHER SLAB.
BRPL-BYPL hired Teams of Meter Checking & Bill Recovery Agents fully
recovered in 60 days- a] Billing Loss, b.] Metering Loss, c.]
Collection Loss, which adds up to 30 points but Didn't Declare
Recovery - [5] 25% Siphoning of Collections.
BRPL-BYPL - DIRECT+INDIRECT PUBLIC LOSS = Rs.50,000 Cr
Thank you,
Faithfully,
Ravinder Singh*
Inventor & Consultant
Y-77, Hauz Khas,
New Delhi - 110016
Ph: 9650421857
*Ravinder Singh is a WIPO awarded inventor specializing in Power,
Transportation, Water, Energy Saving, Agriculture, Manufacturing,
Technologies and Projects.
Delhi Scouts for Cos to Replace Discoms
Appellate tribunal stops power regulator from passing an order on
termination of discoms' licence without its consent
OUR BUREAU NEW DELHI
The Kejriwal government raised the pitch in its battle with
Delhi's power distribution companies by reaching out to companies to
replace the incumbents but an appellate tribunal intervened and asked
the regulator not to pass an order on termination without its consent.
Official sources said the Delhi government had begun exploratory talks
with several distribution companies from across the country, which can
step in if licenses of BSES Yamuna and BSES Rajdhani of Anil Ambani's
Reliance group are terminated. "Several power distribution companies
have shown interest. However, most of these meetings are
unstructured," a source in the Delhi government said.
Companies from Gujarat, Maharashtra and West Bengal have responded,
the source said, without identifying them. Apart from the Tatas and
Reliance Infrastructure of the Anil Ambani group that supply
electricity in Delhi and Mumbai, companies involved in distribution in
other regions include CESC in Kolkata, Torrent in Ahmedabad,
Gandhinagar, Surat, Agra and Bhiwandi, GTL in Maharashtra and DPSC in
West Bengal and Bihar.
A director of one of these firms said the management was not aware of
any such discussion but he could not rule out that the promoter may
have been sounded. Another top executive at a discoms said the
Kejriwal government would face huge regulatory and legal challenges in
its bid to replace the licensees. In any case no private player would
be willing to take over Delhi's distribution infrastructure in present
circumstances particularly if BSES does not cooperate, the executive
said. The Delhi government holds 49% equity in the discoms.
Earlier, the Delhi government asked the regulator to terminate the
licenses if the companies carry out their threat of large scale power
cuts on the ground that they have no money to purchase electricity.
The government has argued that the regulator would have fixed the
tariff keeping the costs in mind, as required by the law, and in this
circumstance it is unlawful to blackout parts of Delhi by saying the
discom has no money.
In an on-going case between BSES and the state electricity regulator
on claims of money to be recovered from customers the tribunal
restrained the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) from
taking any hasty step. BSES claims that it needs to recover over Rs
15,000 crore from 32 lakh electricity consumers of Delhi - a move that
the regulator has opposed. During the hearing of this case on
Wednesday, BSES discoms advocates expressed their apprehensions before
the tribunal that the DERC may pass orders that may be prejudicial to
the his clients. They requested tribunal members to prevent DERC from
passing final order in the matter relating to suspension of licenses.
Tribunal Chairman Justice M Karpaga Vinayagam and member Rakesh Nath,
in their order said, "Having regard to the urgency of the matter, we
deem it appropriate to direct the Appellants (BSES discoms) to appear
before the Delhi Commission on 6.2.2014 and make their submissions
with regard to the letter of Government and Delhi Commission may
continue to proceed with the matter by hearing the parties concerned,
but the Commission is directed not to pass the final order in the
above proceedings without leave of the Tribunal during the pendency of
these IAs (Interim Applications)."
Commenting on the development, DERC chairman PD Sudhakar said, "We
will go by the order from the Appellate Tribunal. We have heard about
such order but DERC has not received its copy from the appellate
during the day." He has asked the BSES discoms executives to appear
before the commission on Thursday with regard to the Kejriwal
government's demand for cancellation of their licenses.
A spokesman for BSES Rajdhani, which is also claiming to have lack of
funds to pay its lead power supplier and state run NTPC, said that the
company has sought cooperation of Delhi government and to resolve
matter in interest of its 19 lakh consumers. "For issuing letters of
credit, BSES Rajdhani requested NTPC to follow consistent practice of
past 18 months and allow us reinstatement in 30 days. However, NTPC
rejected plea and sought LCs within 7 days," said the spokesperson. He
added that there is no current default in payments to NTPC against
power supplies and the power producer is not at any risk of default.
This week, Delhi Power Secretary Puneet Goel wrote to the regulator to
cancel the electricity distribution licenses of private discoms, which
are unable to supply reliable power to the consumers in view of lack
of funds. Subsequently, Arvind Kejriwal himself wrote to Lt Governor
Najeeb Jung saying that there may not be any option with electricity
regulator but to revoke licenses of discoms and take over their
operation.
AAP keen on Tata Power if BSES discoms suspended
Govt Prefers 'Good Boy' Distributor, But It's DERC's Call
Richi Verma TNN
New Delhi: The inability of Reliance Infra's BSES discoms to handle
their finances might help competitor Tata Power Delhi land a windfall.
According to sources, Delhi government, which is seriously thinking of
suspending the licence of BSES Rajdhani and BSES Yamuna if there are
outages from next week, is also exploring the option of handing over
administrative control of the two utilities to the Tata company.
However, the BSES companies can breathe somewhat easy as
suspending their licence won't be simple. The Appellate Tribunal of
Electricity on Wednesday directed Delhi Electricity Regulatory
Commission (DERC) not to pass any final order on the matter without
its consent.
Power sector officials said only DERC had the authority to grant
administrative control to another entity if a licence was suspended.
Delhi government officials conceded this matter was not in their
jurisdiction but sources said they were looking at other discoms.
"Administrative control can be given to any organization, government
body or private individual. This is a decision that has to be taken by
DERC,'' said a top government official.
But sources indicated that Tata Power may be approached as it has
experience in distributing power in Delhi and a much better track
record than BSES. POWER GAMES
Tata Power has experience of distributing power in Delhi and a
much better track record than the BSES discoms
NTPC says it has never faced any payment problems with Tata Power
while the BSES companies are regular defaulters
BSES discoms say any move to suspend their licences would be
arbitrary and illegal; blame DERC for their financial mess NTPC sticks
to 1-wk ultimatum
The National Thermal Power Corporation, which has put BSES discoms
on a week's notice over dues, is not willing to give an inch in its
dealing with the BSES discoms. While BSES Yamuna was silent on the
regulation notice from NTPC, sister concern BSES Rajdhani is battling
it out. Delhi is staring at 10-hour outages from next week if the
NTPC-BSES standoff continues.
BSES won't back off without a fight
DERC officials on Wednesday said it was too early to comment on
suspension of licence of the BSES discoms and they would not speculate
on administrative control being handed over to anyone else.
"Alternative arrangements will have to be made in the event of
suspension. We will hear the BSES discoms on Thursday to see what can
be done in the current situation with NTPC,'' said chairperson P D
Sudhakar.
Administrative control for the duration of licence suspension is
given for a maximum of one year under Electricity Act and can be
withdrawn by the regulator any time if it feels the suspended discom
has improved its situation. It could also open the doors for Tata
Power to get into distribution in parts of Delhi outside its
jurisdiction of north and northwest Delhi. The government is also
looking at other power distribution firms outside Delhi.
Transmission utility Delhi Transco is also being considered for the job.
Tata Power CEO Praveer Sinha told TOI they would require a lot of
preparation before committing on any new venture. The discom's
positive track record gives it a huge advantage. Barring the CAG
audit, Tata Power so far has not had any confrontation with the AAP
government on performance issues and was even praised by then chief
minister Sheila Dikshit on several occasions. NTPC has also said on
record that they have never faced any payment problems with this
company while the BSES companies were regular defaulters.
Tata Power has also consistently over-achieved on AT&C loss
reduction target levels and has successfully paid dividends from 2005
to 2009 to the government in a range of 10%-18%. The AT&C loss level
in north Delhi was 53% during privatization in 2002 and the latest
target level was 11% set by DERC. Tata Power officials say they have
brought it down to less than 10%. The total dividend paid to the
government is Rs 117.21 crore.
BSES Rajdhani and BSES Yamuna, however, have no intention of
backing off without a fight. They say any move to suspend their
licence would be arbitrary and illegal and have blamed DERC for their
current financial mess. The tribunal order on Wednesday came as a huge
relief for the two power companies as it can stall any suspension
order. "The tribunal's direction is a judicial order and will have to
be followed,'' confirmed Sudhakar. The tribunal's direction came as
part of an ongoing case of the BSES discoms against DERC over the
issue of pending regulatory assets. The BSES companies had appealed to
the tribunal "not to proceed with the said proceedings and pass a
final order in the matter relating to suspension of licence.''
Licence suspension is a long drawn out process under which a show
cause notice will be served to the defaulting discoms and adequate
hearings held where BSES will be allowed to present their case. In
December 2011, the regulator had served a suspension notice to the
BSES discoms who were facing similar financial difficulties and could
not pay generating stations due to a cash flow crisis.
At that time, the situation was resolved only when the Sheila
Dikshit government infused Rs 500 crore as equity in the debt-ridden
BSES companies to enable them get a bank loan.
