The State Government of Andhra Pradesh vide its notification dated 31st December 2021 has published the Andhra Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (Licensee’s duty for supply of electricity on request) second amendment regulation, 2021 which shall extend to the whole state of Andhra Pradesh.
The Amendment is brought under clause 8(4) which deals with specific provision for development chargers in which all consumers of LT services other than agriculture services whose contracted load exceeds 20 KW shall be provided with dedicated transformers by the licensees on collecting full cost of the transformer.
Where dedicated transformers are provided, the Distribution Licensee shall not collect development charges and shall own the transformer and maintain it. The dedicated DTRs shall be installed within consumers’ premises only.
The Distribution Licensee shall not extend power supply to any consumer from the dedicated transformer other than the consumer who has borne the full cost of the transformer. The cost of such transformers shall not be factored in the AKRS of the licensees. Consumers who are supplied with power from common DTRS shall pay development charges as prescribed by the Commission from time to time”
As per the amendment, clause 8(3) where the distribution licensee shall recover full cost of transformer in case of commercial complexes, apartments and multi storied building where a dedicated transformer is provided while extending new LT service connection has been deleted.
Further the schedule of development chargers for various category of services has been revised.
