GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF TARIFF
(APPLICABLE TO BOTH HT AND LT)

1. Supply of power is subject to execution of agreement by the consumer in the prescribed form, payment of prescribed deposits and compliance of terms and conditions as stipulated in the KERC (Electricity Supply & Distribution) Code-2000-01 and Regulations issued under Electricity Act 2003 at the time of supply and continuation of power supply is subject to the compliance of the said code / Regulations as amended from time to time.

2. The tariffs are applicable to only single point of supply unless otherwise approved by the Licensee.

3. The Licensee does not bind itself to energise any installation, unless the consumer guarantees the minimum charges. The minimum charge is the power supply charges in accordance with the tariff in force from time to time. This shall be payable by the consumer until power supply agreement is terminated, irrespective of the installation being in service or under disconnection.

4. The tariffs in the schedule are applicable to power supply within Karnataka state. 

5. The tariffs are subject to levy of Tax and Surcharges thereon as may be decided by the State Government from time to time. 

6. For the purpose of these tariffs, the following conversion table would be used: 
1 HP=0.746 KW. 1HP=0.878 KVA.

7. The bill amount will be rounded off to the nearest Rupee, i.e., the bill amount of 50 Paise and above will be rounded off to the next higher Rupee and amount less than 50 Paise will be ignored.

8. Use of power for temporary illumination in the premises already having permanent power supply for marriages, exhibitions in hotels, sales promotions etc., is limited to sanctioned load at applicable permanent power supply tariff rates. Temporary tariff rates will be applicable in case the load exceeds sanctioned load as per KERC (ES&D) Code, 2000-01.

9. No LT power supply will be given where the requisitioned load is 50 KW/67 HP and above. This condition does not apply for installations serviced under clause 3.1.1 of K.E.R.C. (Recovery of Expenditure for supply of Electricity) Regulations, 2004. However the applicant is at liberty to avail HT supply for lesser loads. The minimum contract demand for HT supply shall be 25 KVA or as amended from time to time by the Licensee with the approval of KERC. 

10. The consumer shall not resell electricity purchased from the Licensee to a third party except -

(a) If the consumer holds a sanction or a tariff provision for distribution and sale of energy, 
(b) Under special contract permitting the consumer for resale of energy in accordance with the provisions of contract.

11. Non-receipt of the bill by the consumer is not a valid reason for non-payment. The consumer shall notify the office of issue of the bill if the same is not received within 7 days from the meter reading date. Otherwise, it will be deemed that the bills have reached the consumer in due time. 

12. The Licensee will levy the following charges for non-realization of each Cheque

13. In respect of power supply charges paid by the consumer through money order, Cheque/DD sent by post, receipt will be drawn and consumer has to collect the same. 

14. In case of any belated payment, simple interest at the rate of 2 % per month will be levied on the actual No. of days of delay subject to a minimum of Rs.1/- for LT installation and Rs.100/- for HT installation. However no interest is levied for arrears of Rs.10/- and less.

15. All LT consumers except Bhagya Jyothi and Kutir Jyothi, shall provide current limiter/Circuit Breakers of capacity prescribed by the Licensee depending upon the sanctioned load.
16. All payments made by the consumer will be adjusted in the following order of priority: -

(a) Interest on Tax arrears
(b) Tax arrears
(c) Interest on Revenue Arrears
(d) Revenue Arrears
(e) Current month’s Power supply charges

17. For the purpose of billing, the higher of the rated load or sanctioned load in respect of LT installations which are not provided with Electronic Tri-Vector meter and in respect of installations provided with Electronic Tri-Vector meter, sanctioned load or MD recorded which ever is higher will be considered. However penalty and other clauses shall apply if sanctioned load is exceeded.

18. The bill amount shall be paid within 15 days from the date of presentation of the bill failing which the interest becomes payable.

19. For individual installations more than one meter shall not be provided under the same tariff. Wherever two or more meters are existing for individual installation, the sum of the consumption recorded by the meters shall be taken for billing, till they are merged.

20. In case of multiple connections in a building all the meters shall be provided at one easily accessible place in the ground floor / cellar floor.

21. Reconnection charges: The following reconnection charges shall be levied incase of disconnection and included in the monthly bill.
For reconnection of:

22. Revenue payments up to and inclusive of Rs.10, 000/- shall be made by cash or cheque or D.D and payments above Rs.10, 000/- shall be made by cheque or D.D only. Payments under other heads of account shall be made by cash or D.D up to and inclusive of Rs.10,000/- and payment above Rs.10,000/-shall be by D.D only.

Note: The consumers can avail the facility of payment of monthly power supply bill through Electronic clearing system (ECS)/ Credit cards / on line E-Payment @ www.billjunction.com at counters wherever such facility is provided by the Licensee in respect of revenue payments up to and inclusive of Rs.10,000/-.
23. Fuel Escalation charge(FEC): This has already been merged with the Energy charge in Tariff Order 2003 and hence no FEC is chargeable separately.
24. For types of installations not covered under any Tariff schedules, the Licensee is permitted to classify such installations under appropriate Tariff schedule under intimation to the K.E.R.C.
25. Seasonal Industries

Applicable to all Seasonal Industries. 

i) The industries that intend to avail this benefit should have Electronic Tri- Vector Meter fitted to the installation. 

ii) The installations shall not work to full capacity for more than nine calendar months in each year & during the remaining months of the year, utilize power for administrative offices etc., and for overhauling and repairing plant and machinery.

iii) ‘Working season’ months and ‘off-season’ months shall be determined by an order issued by the Executive Engineer of the concerned O&M Division of the Licensee as per the request of the consumer and will continue from year to year unless otherwise altered. The consumer shall give a clear one month’s notice in case he intends to change his ‘working season’.

iv) The ‘Working season’ months and ‘off-season’ months shall be full – calendar months. If the power availed during a month exceeds the allotment for the ‘off-season’ month, it shall be taken for calculating the billing demand as if the month is the ‘working season’ month.

v) The consumer shall forfeit the concession admissible to seasonal industries, if

(a) The working season exceeds nine months in a year
OR
(b) The Maximum Demand/consumption during any month of the off-seasonal months is more than 50% of the contract demand/average consumption of previous working season.

26 Whether an institution availing Power supply is charitable or not will be decided by the Licensee on the production of certificate Form-12 A from Income Tax department.

27 TOD Tariff: Commission has introduced Time of Day (TOD) Tariff based on time of day usage as optional to consumers under LT (wherever trivector meter is fixed) and HT industrial category and HT water supply. Details of TOD tariff are indicated under the respective tariff category.

28 SICK INDUSTRIES The Government of Karnataka has extended certain reliefs to sick industries under the New Industrial Policy 2001-06 vide G.O.No.Cl 167 SPI 2001, dated 30.06.2001. The Commission in its Tariff Order 2002 has accorded approval for implementation of reliefs to the sick industries as per the Government policy and the same was continued in the Tariff Order 2003. The Commission approves continuation of the implementation of reliefs to sick industries by the licensees subject to collection of the amount of relief from the GoK in advance.

29 Prompt payment incentive:

i) In all cases of payment through ECS

ii) and in the case of monthly bills exceeding Rs.1,00,000/- (Rs. one lakh), if the payment is made 10 days in advance of the due date, an incentive at the rate of 0.25% of such bill shall be given to the consumer by way of adjustment in the subsequent month's bill.

30 The KERC (Electricity Supply & Distribution) Code 2000-01 and amendments issued thereon from time to time will prevail over the extract given in this tariff book in the event of any discrepancy.