Jaipur Vidhyut Vitran Nigam Limited vs Office Of Electricity Ombudsman, Rajasthan

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2023 Supreme(Raj) 491

SAMEER JAIN
Jaipur Vidhyut Vitran Nigam Limited – Appellant
Versus
Office Of Electricity Ombudsman, Rajasthan – Respondent

Advocates:
Advocate Appeared:
For the Appellant : Mr. Bipin Gupta, Adv.
For the Respondent: Mr. P.N. Bhandari, Mr. Sunil Nath, Advs.

JUDGMENT :

1. All these writ petitions are filed by the petitioner Discom-Jaipur Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited (for short “JVVNL”) assailing different orders passed by the Electricity Ombudsman, Rajasthan (for short “EO”). The issue before the EO was regarding recovery of transformation losses (at 3%) and cost/pro-rata cost of EHV Transformer, from the consumers who were falling under the category of ‘Large Industries’, on allowing increase in contract demand at lower voltage than the prescribed level of supply of voltage according to their contract demand. For reference, the prescribed voltage level for various categories of load is reproduced as under:

Category of Consumer	Character of services
g) Large Industrial (except Railway Traction)	Contract Demand	Voltage of Supply
	i) Connected Load above 112 kW (150 HP) and/or contract/actual demand above 125 kVA but up to 1500 kVA	i) HT 11 kV
	ii) Contract/actual demand is above 1500 kVA but up to 5000 kVA	ii) HT 33 kV
	iii) Contract/actual demand above 5000 kVA	iii) EHT 132 kV or 220 kV

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2023 Supreme(Raj) 491

SAMEER JAINJaipur Vidhyut Vitran Nigam Limited – AppellantVersusOffice Of Electricity Ombudsman, Rajasthan – Respondent

Cases Referred (12)

SAMEER JAIN
Jaipur Vidhyut Vitran Nigam Limited – Appellant
Versus
Office Of Electricity Ombudsman, Rajasthan – Respondent