Power procurement from market yielding positive results: Discoms

VIJAYAWADA: In response to the objections raised by stakeholders and state power engineers associations questioning the logic behind procurement of power from markets despite being a power surplus state, the power distribution companies (Discoms) have maintained that they were resorting to market as a source of purchase only under “emergency conditions” to avoid load shedding.

The Discoms also said there was no loss to the state-owned thermal units as against the objection that power procurement from markets was “adversely” affecting them as they were being kept in reserve shutdown to enable market purchases. The Discoms filed their response to the objections and suggestions filed by various stakeholders regarding the aggregate revenue requirement (ARR) and retail tariff supply for 2021-22 ahead of the public hearing scheduled by the AP Electricity Regulatory Commission (APERC) from Monday.