When the boilers of 520 MW unit of Hinduja National Power Corporation Limited in Visakhapatnam are lit for commercial operations next month, the entire generation will go to Andhra Pradesh.
The State is already using the 520 MW from the first unit 100 per cent.
Asked if the Telangana government will not stake claim on the output even from the second unit, the Chairman and Managing Director of Telangana State Power Generation Corporation D. Prabhakar Rao said Hinduja was a private project.
“Let them give power to whomsoever they want. We have not staked any claim on it,” Mr. Prabhakar Rao said.
However, the officials of AP are not willing to give up the claims of the State in the two ongoing projects in Telangana at Jaipur in Adilabad (600 MW) and Bhoopalpalli in Warangal district (1,200 MW) as per the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act.
But, Mr. Prabhakar Rao ruled out giving power to Andhra Pradesh from the two stations.
The distribution companies of Andhra Pradesh , in their annual revenue requirement for 2015-16, have already informed the Andhra Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission that 100 per cent power allocation share of Hinduja and Krishnapatnam was considered by the State. The two plants will generate 15,581 million units.
The decision of the Andhra Pradesh government to draw 100 per cent share from Hinduja was a sharp deviation from the Tenth Schedule of the Reorganisation Act which stipulated that existing power purchase agreements with respective Discoms will continue for ongoing projects and projects under construction.
Telangana and Andhra Pradesh will share in the ratio of 53.89 per cent and 46.11 per cent respectively.
However, Telangana will be deprived of 8,396 MU from 15,581 MU by the decision of the Andhra Pradesh government.
Sources said the test firing of the second unit was completed in the presence of NTPC officials last month and the commercial operations’ day was fixed for next month.
The coal linkage was also taken up with the Central Electricity Authority.
As it is a private project, the management can sell power to whomsoever it wants, says TS official
