(2)
“Board” means a State Electricity Board constituted
under section 5;
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(3)
“bulk-licensee” means a licensee who is authorized by
his licence to supply electricity to other licensees
for distribution
by them;
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(4)
“controlled station” means a generating station designated
in a scheme sanctioned under Chapter V as a controlled
station;
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1[(4A)
“Generating Company” means a company formed –
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(a)
either by the Central Government or by any State Government;
or
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(b)
jointly by the Central government and one or more State
Governments or by two or more State governments,
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and
registered under the Companies Act, 1956;]
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(5) “generating station”
or “Station” means any station for generating electricity,
including any building and plant 1[(with
step-up transformer, switch—gear, cables or other
appurtenant equipment, if any)] used for that purpose
and the site thereof, a site intended to be used for
a generating station, and any buildings used for housing
the operating staff of a generating station, and where
electricity is generated by water-power, includes
pen stocks, head and tail works, main and regulating
reservoirs, dams and other hydraulic works, but does
not in any case include any sub-station. 2***;
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(6)
“licensee” means a person licensed under Part II of
the Indian Electricity Act, 1910 to supply energy
or a person who has obtained sanction under section
28 of that Act to engage in the business of supplying
energy 3[but, the provisions of section 26
of 26A of this Act notwithstanding, does not include
the Board or a Generating Company];
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(7)
“main transmission lines” means all high pressure cables
and over head lines (not being an essential part of
the distribution system of a licensee) transmitting
electricity from a generating station to another generating
station or to a sub-station, together with any step-up
and step-down transformers, switch-gear and other works
necessary to and used for the control of such cables
or overhead lines, and such buildings or part thereof
as may be required to accommodate such transformers,
switch-gear and other works and the operating staff
thereof;
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4[(8)
“maximum demand” in relation to any period shall, unless
otherwise provided in any general or special order of
the State governemnt, mean twice the largest number
of kilowatt-hours or kilo-volt-ampere-hours supplied
and taken during any consecutive thirty minutes in that
period;]
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1[(8A
) “power system” means a system under the control
of the Government or any Board or Generating Company
or other agency and having one or more –
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(i)
generating stations; or
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(ii)
main transmission lines and sub-stations; or
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(iii)
generating stations and main transmission lines and
sub-stations;]
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(9) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules 5[made
under this Act];
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(10)
“regulations” means regulations made by the Board under
section 79;
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(11)
“Reserve Bank” means the Reserve Bank of India;
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