Power from Krishnapatnam and Hinduja plants is considered to be expensive

Hyderabad:  Even as the Neeraja Mathur Committee, dealing with the power sharing issues between Telangana and Andhra Pradesh,  is to announce its final decision by this month end,  Telangana government withdrew its demand to allocate its share of power from Damodaram Sanjeevaiah thermal power station in Krishnapatnam and Hinduja power project in Andhra Pradesh.   

TSTRANSCO has written a letter to  the Southern Regional Load Despatch Centre  (SRLDC), Bangalore requesting the Centre not to schedule power from Krishnapatnam to Telangana state.  In the case of Hinduja,  the government  would  buy power if the company supplies at ‘economical price.’  This was in consonance with the statement made by the Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao that his state does not need to depend on power generated from AP projects in the Assembly recently.

TSGENCO and Transco Chairman and Managing Director D Prabhakar Rao told The Hans India that the government identified alternative avenues to get required power in the wake of uncertainty on the availability of power from the two projects. As per the AP Reorganisation Act, T state has been allotted 53.89 per cent of power from the two projects. The installed capacity of  Krishnapatnam was 1600 MW and that of the Hinduja  is 1000 MW.  

In fact, four months ago, the same official wrote a letter to the SRLDC asking it to schedule power from Krishnapatnam in view of increased power demand in Telangana.  As the state achieved sufficient status by purchasing power from exchanges, government felt demanding power from the yet-to-commission projects would be of no use for the state,  the official said. Since the  power  sharing between two states  was pending before the committee  as both locked horns over their share in the projects under the PPAs entered into by the then APGENCO  with the Discoms in the united state,  

Rao said that on the advice of the Chief Minister, it was decided not to claim its share from the two projects.  Regarding the Hinduja project, the Transco CMD  said the government would not insist on its  power share from the company. If the company comes forward and offered power at economical price, then the government would consider and purchase power, he added.

• Decision taken in line with CM KCR’s stand

• Govt identifies alternate avenues to procure power

• To purchase power from Hinduja plant, if it sells at economical price