JUDGEMENT

PER HON’BLE MR. SANDESH KUMAR SHARMA, TECHNICAL MEMBER

1. The captioned batch of Appeals have been filed by various Captive Power Plant (in short “CPP”) Developers assailing the common Tariff Order dated 30.03.2022 (in short “Impugned Order”) passed by Andhra Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (in short “APERC” or “State Commission”) in O.P. Nos. 122 - 124 of 2021 (in short “Tariff Petitions”), to the limited extent it imposes Grid Support Charges (in short “GSC”) / Parallel Operation Charges (in short “POC”) on the total installed capacity of all generators connected to the State Grid except those which are supplying power to the distribution licensees of the State of Andhra Pradesh.

2. The Appellants are the CPP Developers (in short “CPPDs”) inter-alia have set up industries in the State of Andhra Pradesh (in short “AP”) and are connected to the State Transmission/ Distribution grid.

3. The Respondent No. 1, APERC is the State Electricity Regulatory Commission having been the conferred powers under section 86 of the Electricity Act, 2003 (in short “2003-Act”) inter-alia passed the Impugned Order under the powers vested upon it.

4. The Respondent No 2 to 4 are the dist