Electricity Act, 2003
51. Other businesses
of distribution licensees.-
A distribution
licensee may, with prior intimation to the Appropriate Commission, engage in
any other 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 concerned State Commission, be utilised for reducing its
charges for wheeling:
Provided
further that
the distribution licensee shall maintain separate accounts for each such
business undertaking to ensure that distribution business neither subsidises in
any way such business undertaking nor encumbers its distribution assets in any
way to support such business:
Provided
also that
nothing contained in this section shall apply to a local authority engaged,
before the commencement of this Act, in the business of distribution of
electricity.