{"id":301400,"date":"2019-11-18T12:42:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T07:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=301400"},"modified":"2019-11-18T12:42:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T07:12:05","slug":"andhra-electricity-regulatory-body-to-hold-public-hearing-on-renewable-ppas-on-december-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/andhra-electricity-regulatory-body-to-hold-public-hearing-on-renewable-ppas-on-december-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Andhra electricity regulatory body to hold public hearing on renewable PPAs on December 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VIJAYAWADA: The Andhra Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (APERC) will conduct a public hearing on December 7 on the joint petition filed by State discoms seeking revision of tariff payable to wind and solar power developers, who entered into Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs)\/Power Sale Agreements (PSAs) during 2012-2016.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing will also include taking suggestions\/objections from stakeholders regarding the appeal made by the discoms to restrict the PPAs\u2019 tenure to 5-10 years instead of existing 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>In the petition, APSPDCL and APEPDCL stated that the tariff of wind and solar power generation has come down over the years and yet they were paying a high price due to the PPAs.<\/p>\n<p>They noted that procurement of renewable power at higher prices, when conventional power is available at lower prices, burdened the discoms so much that monthly power purchase bills could not be paid from August 2018. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIJAYAWADA: The Andhra Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (APERC) will conduct a public hearing on December 7 on the joint petition filed by State discoms seeking revision of tariff payable to wind and solar power developers, who entered into Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs)\/Power Sale Agreements (PSAs) during 2012-2016. The hearing will also include taking suggestions\/objections from stakeholders regarding the appeal made by the discoms to restrict the PPAs\u2019 tenure to 5-10 years instead of existing 25 years. In the petition, APSPDCL and APEPDCL stated that the tariff of wind and solar power generation has come down over the years and yet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,243,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301400","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}