AP’s Excess Power Soon For Telangana
The state of Andhra Pradesh is reportedly finalizing the process
for selling the excess power it has been generating to Telangana from
June. Telangana is facing acute short of power and has been relying on
power bought from outside. This summer has seen quite a number of power
cuts and shortages.
Recently Telangana
government had requested Andhra Pradesh over the possibility of buying
the power from Krishnapatnam Power Station in Nellore. Andhra Pradesh
seems to have replied that power cannot be sent in peak summer as
technical problems are arising.
This is due to
the fact most plants were not operating at the full capacity. Andhra
Pradesh is expected to send 300MW of Power generated to Telangana from
June 2016. Telangana is expected to get that at a tariff of 4.62 Rupees
per unit, considered a reasonable cost.
However
sources say that AP government is also worried over pending power bills
from Telangana. Telangana’s dues are already running over 1000 Crores,
and now PPA will be executed involving a proper time frame for the
payments. It would be best if the deal happens smoothly between both
states.