Clarity eludes many aspects pertaining to power supply from the Damodaram Sanjeevaiah Thermal Power Station in Nellore, the first unit of which is up for commercial operations from Tuesday evening.
The 800 MW unit was running hassle-free at its full capacity till Monday evening, after achieving 811 MW on its first day, APGenco’s MD K.Vijayanand informed. The plant could prove to be a bonus for both States in view of the dreary summer days ahead.
Nevertheless, as already known, the two discoms of Andhra Pradesh, disregarding the PPA signed in the united Andhra Pradesh, have shown total power from the unit for their own use in their Aggregate Revenue Requirement note submitted to the APERC. The earlier PPA was sent back by the erstwhile APERC citing jurisdictional issues, as the power station was meant to be an inter-State project, and only Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) was the appropriate authority to grant the approval.
However, once the commercial operations begin, the basis on which APGenco seeks to supply the power to the discoms remains ambiguous, as no fresh PPA has been signed with APEPDCL and APSPDCL for the supply.
The approach to be assumed by the Southern Regional Load Despatch Centre (SRLDC) in Bangalore too assumes significance, because, the same had played a key role in reapportioning Telangana’s share of power from AP projects after APGenco withdrew from all the PPAs for which regulatory approval was pending.
Telangana discoms still continue to depend on SRLDC for their rightful share from thermal projects of AP. While a central committee was appointed to resolve the power disputes between the two states, its recommendations are not expected in near future.
