The TPC was earlier directed to submit its TRP by October 1. This comes in the wake of the Reliance group-promoted BSES submitting its TRP last week.
BSES had sought confidentiality on its TRP till such time TPC submits its TRP before MERC, which was turned down by the commission. TPC had sought more time to submit its TRP on grounds of time taken for data compilation.
According to a source, TPC has also communicated to the MERC the need for the commission to take up hearings on several pending cases (on its dispute with BSES) on a regular basis and in the chronological sequence.
A senior TPC official is believed to have called upon the MERC chairperson P Subramaniam today to discuss this issue. BSES and TPC are already engaged in several suits filed before the MERC on issues relating to standby charges and fuel adjustment costs leviable upon BSES by TPC.
TPC feels that if these issues were to be settled by the MERC, the tariff revision proposal could be more clearly defined by it, since otherwise, it would have to provide for the costs arising as a fallout of the orders issued by MERC.
Meanwhile, according to the BSES TRP submitted to the MERC, the utility is seeking to pass on the standby charges and additional standby charges (it pays to TPC) upon its 22 lakh consumers as a one-time surcharge and additional surcharge on all the 6166 MUs of power its supplies per month for a period of 12 months.
