{"id":428130,"date":"2021-07-30T10:28:21","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T04:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=428130"},"modified":"2021-07-30T12:52:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T07:22:04","slug":"punjab-power-mess-pspcl-purchased-power-without-getting-pacts-approved-by-regulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/punjab-power-mess-pspcl-purchased-power-without-getting-pacts-approved-by-regulator\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab Power Mess: PSPCL purchased power without getting pacts approved by regulator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a time when Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh has directed the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) to examine all the Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) signed with private power producers and cancel them if required, it has come to fore that the state utility has been signing pacts and purchasing electricity worth several hundred crores from new and renewable energy sectors without the agreements having been approved by the state power regulator.<\/p>\n<p>Documents accessed by The Indian Express reveal that the PSPCL has not been taking the mandatory approval of Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission (PSERC) before signing the PPAs since 2005 and in last 10 years has purchased power worth Rs 465 crore. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a time when Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh has directed the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) to examine all the Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) signed with private power producers and cancel them if required, it has come to fore that the state utility has been signing pacts and purchasing electricity worth several hundred crores from new and renewable energy sectors without the agreements having been approved by the state power regulator. Documents accessed by The Indian Express reveal that the PSPCL has not been taking the mandatory approval of Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission (PSERC) before signing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428130","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}