{"id":339616,"date":"2020-02-29T10:34:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T05:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=339616"},"modified":"2020-02-29T10:35:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T05:05:33","slug":"relief-to-solar-units-tribunal-disallows-tariff-cuts-by-andhra-pradesh-discoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/relief-to-solar-units-tribunal-disallows-tariff-cuts-by-andhra-pradesh-discoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Relief to solar units: Tribunal disallows tariff cuts by Andhra Pradesh discoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a major relief to foreign-funded solar projects worth Rs 4,000 crore in Andhra Pradesh, the Appellate Tribunal For Electricity (Aptel) has directed the state-owned power distribution companies (discoms) to pay Rs 2.72\/unit tariff\u2014the rate discovered in reverse auctions\u2014to the plant developers.<\/p>\n<p>Reversing the Andhra Pradesh State Electricity Commission\u2019s October 2019 order, Aptel said that the state power regulator \u201cought not to have passed conditional order,\u201d which allowed the state to buy electricity from these solar projects only if tariffs were reduced to Rs 2.44\/unit. Andhra Pradesh\u2019s decision to revise tariffs of renewable energy projects had created a stir in the industry and hit the national mission to have 175 giga-watt (GW) of renewable energy capacity by 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a major relief to foreign-funded solar projects worth Rs 4,000 crore in Andhra Pradesh, the Appellate Tribunal For Electricity (Aptel) has directed the state-owned power distribution companies (discoms) to pay Rs 2.72\/unit tariff\u2014the rate discovered in reverse auctions\u2014to the plant developers. Reversing the Andhra Pradesh State Electricity Commission\u2019s October 2019 order, Aptel said that the state power regulator \u201cought not to have passed conditional order,\u201d which allowed the state to buy electricity from these solar projects only if tariffs were reduced to Rs 2.44\/unit. Andhra Pradesh\u2019s decision to revise tariffs of renewable energy projects had created a stir in [&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":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339616","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\/339616","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=339616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}