J U D G M E N T

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

1. The four captioned Appeals being Appeal No.119 of 2021, Appeal no. 51 of 2021, Appeal No. 338 of 2022 and Appeal No. 339 of 2022 have been filed by Solar Power Generators (in short “SPGs”) either themselves or through their Federation namely M/s. National Solar Energy Federation of India (in short

“NSEFI”) inter alia , challenging the legality, validity and enforceability of the Order dated 22.12.2020 (hereinafter referred as “Impugned Order”) passed by the Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission (hereinafter referred as

“State Commission” or “TNERC”).

2. The Impugned Order has been passed as common order in Petition M.P. No. 11 of 2019 filed by NSEFI, Petition DRP No. 2 of 2020 filed by Crescent Power Ltd., Appeal No. 338 of 2022 by B S Apparel Pvt Ltd. and Appeal No. 339 of 2022 by Ranergy Solutions Pvt Ltd. whereby the State Commission has rejected the submissions of the Appellants seeking issuance of direction for restraining Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (in short

“TANGEDCO”) from making deductions on account of Capacity Utilization Factor (“CUF”) b