Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh has asked the state\u2019s electricity distribution company (discom) \u2013 Punjab State Power Corporation (PSPCL) \u2013 to reexamine all power purchase agreements (PPAs) signed by the former SAD-BJP government with various private power plants, and revise or cancel the contracts that are \u2018one-sided\u201d and \u2018not beneficial to the state\u2019. In a statement released on Wednesday evening, the chief minister\u2019s office said that the discom had been directed to revoke the PPA with Vedanta\u2019s subsidiary Talwandi Sabo Power (TSPL), which runs the 1,980 mega-watt (MW) station in the state.<\/p>\n
The Talwandi Sabo plant is the largest single source of power in Punjab, and after all the units of the station broke down earlier in the month, the state government had to impose restrictions of the industrial consumers, permitting them to draw only 50% of power capacity allocated to them for a few days. Stating that the plant \u201cmiserably failed to perform in the current paddy season\u201d, the government notice said that the PPAs with private power stations \u201cwere established basically to meet the power demands of the State especially during paddy sowing and summer season\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh has asked the state\u2019s electricity distribution company (discom) \u2013 Punjab State Power Corporation (PSPCL) \u2013 to reexamine all power purchase agreements (PPAs) signed by the former SAD-BJP government with various private power plants, and revise or cancel the contracts that are \u2018one-sided\u201d and \u2018not beneficial to the state\u2019. In a statement released on Wednesday evening, the chief minister\u2019s office said that the discom had been directed to revoke the PPA with Vedanta\u2019s subsidiary Talwandi Sabo Power (TSPL), which runs the 1,980 mega-watt (MW) station in the state. The Talwandi Sabo plant is the largest […]<\/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-428088","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\/428088","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=428088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}