Regulation Of Group Captive Power Plants In India

Captive Generating plant means a power plant set up by any person, association or any company to generate electricity primarily for his or her own use and includes a power plant set up by any co-operative society or association of persons for generating electricity primarily for use of members of such co-operative society or association¹. A dedicated transmission line can also be build, operated or maintained by the same person for the transmission of electricity produced out of such captive plant. Every such person has a right to open access for the purposes of carrying electricity from his captive generating plant to the destination of his use subject to availability of transmission facility by CTU or STU, as the case may be.