Issues of power sharing between the two newly carved States of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh are likely to be discussed threadbare at the high level committee meeting to be held at Delhi on Tuesday.
Issues ranging from each State’s share of power from central generating stations, to refusal by Andhra Pradesh to transmit power from the Damodaram Sanjeevaiah Thermal Power Station at Krishnapatnam, are likely to come up for discussion at the meeting to be held under the aegis of Central Electricity Authority and Ministry of Power.
Originally scheduled to be conducted on February 18, the meeting was postponed, and both States received communication recently about the fresh date.
Issues pertaining to validity of the power purchase agreements, sharing of infirm power from the Krishnapatnam plant, and share of the equity and assets of APPDCL as well as inter-state hydro electric projects, will be thrashed out at the meeting, to be attended on Telangana’s behalf by the Energy principal secretary Aravind Kumar, and on AP’s side by the CMD of APTransco K.Vijayanand.
Also to be raised by Telangana is the issue of ownership of the Nagarjunasagar Tail Pond Dam and power house, sources informed.
The power house is owned by Andhra Pradesh as of now, as per the bifurcation agreement.
This will be the third meeting by the committee which had been constituted in July last year, after APGenco had announced that it was withdrawing from all the PPAs for which regulatory approval was pending.
