Given the Andhra Pradesh government\u2019s refusal to back down on its plan to review the renewable energy PPAs signed by the Chandrababu Naidu government\u2014the Jagan Reddy government said they were too costly\u2014Union power minister RK Singh has done well to come up with a new plan to tackle this. He has told Mint that a new tribunal\u2014to be headed by a retired judge\u2014is to be set up to deal only with enforcement of contracts. Though the Cerc and appellate tribunal Aptel can also, theoretically, do this, Singh probably feels the existing bodies are unequal to the task. Of course, the proof of the pudding lies in the eating, so a final verdict cannot be given until the body gives its first set of directions. Given all tribunal verdicts are challengeable either in an appellate body or in the Supreme Court, it is possible a state government like Andhra Pradesh will try and delay matters by appealing the tribunal\u2019s judgment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Given the Andhra Pradesh government\u2019s refusal to back down on its plan to review the renewable energy PPAs signed by the Chandrababu Naidu government\u2014the Jagan Reddy government said they were too costly\u2014Union power minister RK Singh has done well to come up with a new plan to tackle this. He has told Mint that a new tribunal\u2014to be headed by a retired judge\u2014is to be set up to deal only with enforcement of contracts. Though the Cerc and appellate tribunal Aptel can also, theoretically, do this, Singh probably feels the existing bodies are unequal to the task. Of course, the […]<\/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":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338374","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=338374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}