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 P/044/2019 - Sri. Jacob Paul Kattappana 
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| The appellant has filed this appeal petition against the order of Consumer Grievance Redressal Forum in complaint no. OP 89/18-2019 dated 9/5/2019. The appellant is registered as an industrial consumer under LT 1VA tariff having consumer number 16965 under Electrical Section, Kattappana. The connected load of the consumer was 114 kW up to 12/6/2018. After that the connected load was reduced to 72kW with a contract demand of 80kVA by executing an agreement for reduction of connected load. The appellant was given short assessment of demand charges for the period from 8/2015 to1/2018 and low voltage surcharge from 5/2017 to 1/2018 and short assessment of a demand charges and energy charges for the period from 1/2013 to 3/2015 amounting to Rs.218006/- and Rs.12939/- respectively. The contract demand is wrongly arrived as 96 kVA instead of 127 kVA for which low voltage surcharge is charged. Aggrieved by the short assessment bills the appellant approached CGRF and the Forum in its order dated 9/5/19 mentioned above upheld the bill for- Rs.2,18,006/- and quashed the bill for Rs. 12,939/-. Aggrieved by the decision of CGRF, the appellant has submitted the Appeal petition before this Authority. From the conclusions arrived at as detailed above, I decide to quash the short assessment bills amounting to Rs. 2,18,006/- issued to the appellant. The period of short assessment in demand charges is limited for 24 months from 2/2016 to 1/2018. The respondent shall issue a revised bill within a period of 30 days from the date of this order. It is proper and allowable as per the regulations in the Supply Code and tariff order to issue a bill for low voltage surcharge to the consumers who are required to avail supply at HT, but had a sanctioned load exceeding the limit of 100kVA. The appellant has to remit the low voltage surcharge from 05/2017 to 01/2018. The respondent shall allow 12 monthly instalments if the appellant desires so. No surcharge for the instalment amount shall be collected from the appellant. Having concluded and decided as above it is ordered accordingly. The order of CGRF in OP No. 89/2018-19 dated 09-05-2019 is modified to this extent. No order on costs. |
| P/047/2019, P/048/2019 & P/049/2019 1. Smt. Dr.Seebai T, 2. Sri. Thulaseedharan M & 3.. Smt. Leelabai K
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| The appellants are the owners of the land in various survey numbers in Mayyanad village under the jurisdiction of Electrical Section, Mayyanad. The grievance of the appellants pertains to the electric line drawn by KSEB through the property of the appellants without their consent. The request of the appellants is to shift the line and poles from their property. The petitions filed by the appellants before the CGRF (South) Kottarakkara, vide OP No. 24/2019,25/2019 and 26/2019 were dismissed due the lack of jurisdiction since the case is pending before the Hon'ble Additional District Magistrate. Still aggrieved by the order of the CGRF, the Appellants have filed the Appeal Petition before this Authority. From the analysis done above and the conclusions arrived at, it is decided to reject the appeal petitions filed by the appellants. The appellants are free to approach the appropriate Forum regarding the right of pathway. Having concluded and decided as above, it is ordered accordingly. No order on costs. |
| P/045/2019 - Sri. A.K. Xaviour, Kottayam
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| The appellant is a consumer under the Electrical Section, Aymanam under VI F tariff bearing consumer No. 13859. He has taken a Single phase connection in 2015 at the time of the construction of his house. After the completion of the construction work, the appellant applied for load enhancement under LT 1 A domestic tariff and conversion of service connection to LT three phase, on18-07-2017. In the application, the connected load applied was 51326 Watts, but on inspection it was found that the connected load at the premises as 44 kW (leaving all unconnected equipments and plug points). On 03-01-2018, the Executive Engineer, Electrical Division, Pallom accorded sanction for an estimate amounting to Rs.12.23 lakhs for constructing 950m of 11 kV SC OH line and installing one 100 kVA transformer at the property of the appellant for meeting the appellant’s load requirement and accordingly demand notice was issued to the appellant by the respondent. The appellant was not willing to bear the expenditure required to meet his power requirement stating that the appellant is bound to remit the expenditure only if the power requirement is above one Megawatt. Challenging the demand notice issued, the appellant filed a petition before the CGRF, Southern Region which was disposed vide Order No. OP 20/2019 dated 21-05-2019, ordering that the distribution licensee is empowered to recover the expenditure incurred for providing supply as per Regulation 32 of Kerala Electricity Supply Code 2014 and the Forum dismissed the case. Still aggrieved, the appellant has submitted this appeal petition before this Authority. From the analysis done and the findings and conclusions arrived at, which are detailed above, I take the following decisions. The demand notice for Rs. 12.23 lakhs issued by the respondent is quashed. The respondent is entitled to recover the expenditure from the appellant for the extension of 11 kV line up to the transformer station and for the conversion of the single phase low tension service connection to three phase connection. The respondent shall bear the cost of the transformer for giving the three phase LT supply to the appellant. The respondent shall opt the technically feasible route for drawing the 11 kV LT line using Overhead Conductor/Aerial Bunched Cable. Having decided as above, it is ordered accordingly. The Appeal Petition filed by the appellant is disposed of with the said decisions taken and issued. The Order No. OP 20/2019 dated 21-05-2019, of CGRF (South), Kottarakkara, is set aside. No order as to costs. |
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