VIJAYAWADA: The Energy Department has maintained that every effort is being made to procure power irrespective of the cost, but due to the prevailing gap between demand and supply across the country, competition to get power from the power exchange is more.
In the past several weeks, there were occasions when power was purchased at a cost of more than Rs 10 per unit. It is not only Andhra Pradesh, but most of the States are relying on power exchanges to meet the grid consumption.
