Ppa Row: Ap Government Mulling Legal Options

[phani41]

HYDERABAD: Following the Electricity Regulatory Commission’s decision not to consider the request made by the AP Genco to cancel certain power purchase agreements (PPAs), the Andhra Pradesh government is thinking of taking legal recourse against the AP Reorganisation Act, 2014 for justice in the allocation of power.
“The Electricity Regulatory Commission (ERC) is not the final authority. We may approach the court for justice,” sources in the AP power utility told Express.
Meanwhile, the Andhra Pradesh State Load Despatch Centre (APSLDC) dashed off a letter to the Southern Regional Load Despatch Centre (SRLDC), Bangloare, on Thursday, stating that the demand for cancellation of PPAs was justifiable.
It may recalled that responding to the Telangana state government’s request, which is opposing the cancellation of draft PPAs, the SRLDC asked the APSLDC to continue the power supply as per the AP Reorganisation Act. In response, APSLDC on Thursday wrote a detailed letter justifying the cancellation of draft PPAs entered into by APGenco which have not been approved by APERC till date.
“This refers to your fax communication on Wednesday regarding scheduling of power from APGenco stations located in Andhra Pradesh. As per Schedule 12 C(1) of Andhra Pradesh Re-organisation Act, 2014 units of APGenco shall be divided based on geographical location of power plants. According to Schedule 12 C (2) of the Act, existing Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) with respective Discoms shall continue for the ongoing projects as well as the projects under construction.
“Nowhere in the PPAs is the specific allocation of power between Discoms mentioned. Further, the PPAs are not valid as APERC has not given its approval. The Government of AP, after careful examination, has directed the APGenco to withdraw the draft PPAs. No PPA is subsisting and APGenco is under obligation to supply power to APSPDCL and APEPDCL only. “Further, Section 37 of Electricity Act, 2003 says ‘The appropriate government may issue directions to the regional load dispatch centres or state load dispatch centres, as the case may be, to take such measures as may be necessary for maintaining smooth and stable transmission and supply of electricity to any region or state’.
“The government of Andhra Pradesh has directed the SLDC to schedule power only to Andhra Pradesh Discoms by a letter on June 17 and SLDC is duty-bound to implement the directions of the government of AP.’’
“The minutes of the meeting of March 18, 2014 of the task force committee on scheduling procedure, mentioned in your (SRLDC) letter was not attended by Telangana State representatives as the Telangana state is formed after March 28, 2014.
“As you are aware that APSLDC has been separated in physical terms and is independently operating as SLDC of AP from June 2. Therefore, APSLDC is duty-bound to follow the instructions of the AP government and to schedule 100% power of APGenco to AP Discoms.
“APSLDC continues to schedule the power from APGenco stations only to AP Discoms. I request you to ensure that the schedule submitted by APSLDC is honoured,” the superintending engineer of APSLDC said.

Simple ga cheppalante AP government chesedhi legal and according to law.

[joblessjack]

Babu phani41 koncham simple gaa chepu baa , motham chadavala friday roju 

[Acetone]

last line lo simple ga cheppindu ga.... 

[phani41]

The matter is, united ap PPAs prakaram tg ki yekkuva current ivvali, congress govt reorg act lo existing PPAs follow avvali ani pettindhi

Kani existing PPAs expire ayyayi

State united ga vunnappudu kotha PPAs ki apply chesindhi and they are not yet approved, so there are no active PPAs to follow

We can only follow new AP govt order ani chebuthundi ap genco/apsldc

[SupremeIndian]

AP ki surplus power unte matrame TG ki ammali