New Delhi: Power minister R K Singh has brought home minster and ruling BJP president Amit Shah in the loop on the Andhra Pradesh government\u2019s decision to renegotiate tariffs for over 5 MW renewable energy projects, indicating that a high-level political intervention with the state leadership may be in the offing to prevent possible dent in investment climate.
\nAccording to sources, Singh earlier this week conveyed the alarm among investors caused by the YSR Congress government\u2019s June 26 order to renegotiate PPAs (power purchase agreements) signed during the Telugu Desam Party\u2019s rule and the negative impact it could have on India\u2019s investment climate, particularly in the power sector.
\nRating agency CRISIL reckons the state government\u2019s order, stayed by the Andhra Pradesh High Court on Thursday, could jeopardise wind and solar power projects with a debt exposure of over Rs 21,000 crore and aggravate the problem of delayed payments from distribution companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New Delhi: Power minister R K Singh has brought home minster and ruling BJP president Amit Shah in the loop on the Andhra Pradesh government\u2019s decision to renegotiate tariffs for over 5 MW renewable energy projects, indicating that a high-level political intervention with the state leadership may be in the offing to prevent possible dent in investment climate. According to sources, Singh earlier this week conveyed the alarm among investors caused by the YSR Congress government\u2019s June 26 order to renegotiate PPAs (power purchase agreements) signed during the Telugu Desam Party\u2019s rule and the negative impact it could have on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}