Electricity Act, 2003
41. Other business of
transmission licensee.-
A transmission
licensee may, with prior initimation to the Appropriate Commission, engage in
any business for optimum utilisation of its assets:
Provided that a
proportion of the revenues derived from such business shall, as may be
specified by the Appropriate Commission, be utilised for reducing its charges
for transmission and wheeling:
Provided further that
the transmission licensee shall maintain separate accounts for each such
business undertaking to ensure that transmission business neither subsidises in
any way such business undertaking nor encumbers its transmission assets in any
way to support such business:
Provided also that no
transmission licensee shall enter into any contract or otherwise engage in the
business of trading in electricity.