THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) is considering to go for a review petition before State Electricity Regulatory Commission which had severely criticised it for faulty planning for summer months and proposing power cut proposals to the HT/EHT consumers alone. KSERC had criticised the KSEB for restricting power cut proposals to the HT/EHT consumers alone, who formed a minority among the one crore-plus consumers of the power utility. The commission had observed that KSEB proposal to restrict normal tariff-based supply to HT/EHT consumers at 80 per cent of the previous year’s average consumption and charge market rates for the remaining 20 per cent was not ‘fair’. According to KSEB figures, domestic consumers were largely responsible for increase in peak hour power demand, while there were just around 3,000 HT/EHT consumers who constituted the industrial sector. The commission had also blamed the KSEB for faulty planning for the summer months. KSEB which should have planned well in advance for sealing short-term contracts for power procurement failed to do so, the commission had observed. By imposing loadshedding on domestic consumers, the KSEB hoped to save 1.2 million units (MU) daily and through the 20 per cent restriction on industries 2.8 million units. Going in for the second option and purchasing heavily from liquid fuel stations would entail a huge financial burden. In April, the additional liability would be `290.64 cr and in May, `288.56 cr since the price per unit at all liquid fuel stations within the state stood at over `11.
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