HYDERABAD: Telangana, which managed to avert power cuts after 15 summers, you are looking at a crisis in the coming weeks as Andhra Pradesh (AP) is prepared to stop the power supplies of its generating stations require huge fees from electricity.
Although most power generating stations are geographically located in AP, the two states of Telugu speaking – AP and Telangana – have to share power in the proportion of 43.11% and 56.89%, respectively, a formula arrived on past usage.
AP carved in June 2014, Telangana need more power than the AP residual state due to high demand for its industrial and agricultural consumers, the latter rely heavily on groundwater for agriculture. AP residual state owns more than 60% of the assets of former power generation of 16,465MW combined state (state, private stations and power plants together) in terms of its geographical location, while Telangana owns less than 40% energy assets.
Honoring formula based power consumption, AP has been generating energy to bring production costs and has been supplying fork Telangana from Andhra Pradesh old in June 2014. Finding it difficult to power after Telangana failed to clear dues worth more ‘. 1,100 crore for months, power companies have recently warned Andhra Telangana that the power supply will be suspended if dues are not cleared. Given the high costs involved in food products ..
“Telangana has to pay us around 1,124 crore and paid about 50 million rupees couple of days ago after writing to them on July 20 will be difficult to provide power if they do not clear the dues. We have to pay by coal, oil and wages that run power plants, “the AP managing director K Vijayanand Power Generation Corporation said.
Of current demand of some 6,293MW, central Telangana are producing about 2,000 MW and some 3,000MW is coming from the central generating stations. The balance of about 1,300MW was purchased on the open market, said Prabhakar Rao, adding that he expects the demand for Telangana peak rises another 1,000 MW or more in the coming weeks. The interruption of the power supply could also add a strong pressure on the government of Telangana, he was buying the power of open markets at a high cost to ensure
