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Andhra Pradesh’s powerfulness assemblage is making dependable strides towards nett zero c emissions, portion advancing the Swarna Andhra–2047 vision, Chief Secretary K. Vijayanand has said.
Speaking astatine the associated inauguration of New Year diaries and calendars of each State powerfulness utilities connected Wednesday, Mr. Vijayanand emphasised sustainability, efficiency, and affordability arsenic the pillars of the sector’s transformation.
Mr. Vijayanand highlighted the State’s achievements, including reducing organisation losses to 9.6% and AP-TRANSCO losses to 2.6%, with strategy availability exceeding 99.9%. He besides noted AP-GENCO’s improved works show and outgo reductions, lowering mean powerfulness procurement from ₹5.19 per portion to ₹4.90 per unit, resulting successful contiguous user savings. The State aims to further trim costs to ₹4.60 per portion adjacent twelvemonth and beneath ₹4 per portion by 2029.
On renewable energy, approvals for 88–90 GW of projects, including solar, wind, hybrids, storage, greenish hydrogen, and ammonia, person surpassed the archetypal 76 GW target. Officials stressed coordinated efforts among generation, transmission, distribution, and renewable agencies to realise operational capableness by 2029.
The Chief Secretary besides praised the hold of reliable energy to distant and tribal areas nether the PM-JANMAN programme and lauded utilities for maintaining uninterrupted 24×7 services.
MD of AP-GENCO S. Nagalakshmi; CMD of APSPDCL L. Siva Sankar; JMD of AP-TRANSCO G. Surya Sai Praveen Chand; CMD of APCPDCL P. Pulla Reddy; VC&MD of NREDCAP M. Kamalakar Babu; and Chief Electrical Inspector G. Vijaya Lakshmi attended.
