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Energy Minister Gottipati Ravi Kumar stated successful the Legislative Council connected Thursday that each electrical instrumentality for the powerfulness assemblage were being procured lone done the State government’s e-Procurement portal and competitory bidding.
Purchases supra ₹5 crore were being made with anterior support of the A.P. Electricity Regulatory Commission (APERC), the Minister said.
Replying to a question asked by Alapati Rajendra Prasad, Bhumireddy Ramagopal Reddy and Peraabathula Rajasekharam, the Minister said prime standards were being strictly followed and that the insignificant variations successful prices of instrumentality among DISCOMs were chiefly owed to transport and logistics.
Mr. Ravi Kumar mentioned that the State adopted lone 5-star rated transformers for agriculture, industries, and nationalist usage to guarantee vigor ratio and trim failures. Pointing to past irregularities, helium said electrical instrumentality worthy ₹220 crore bought for the Jagananna Colonies were lying unused and present being safeguarded and enactment to usage wherever necessary.
Hydel generation
Meanwhile, successful a reappraisal gathering connected powerfulness proviso astatine his campy office, Chief Secretary and Special CS (Energy) K. Vijayanand said owed precedence should beryllium fixed to hydel generation, and directed that portion integrating renewable sources similar upwind and solar, alternate arrangements specified arsenic hydel and thermal should beryllium considered to guarantee reliable supply. This would minimise the dependence connected upwind procreation successful presumption of seasonal variations.
He directed the AP-Genco to play a proactive relation successful readying and coordination, portion stating that since July 2025, an mean of 15.50 MU per time of powerfulness was being generated from hydel sources, underscoring its captious publication to gathering the demand. The Srisailam Right Bank Power House was generating power continuously.
Mr. Vijayanand said the highest request was projected astatine 10,963 MW, portion availability was expected to beryllium 10,965 MW for October 2025, indicating a balanced proviso during highest hours.
As the southwest monsoon was acceptable to retreat from the State from the 2nd week of October, upwind procreation would travel down, and shortfall would increase, particularly during the evening highest hours.
AP-Genco Managing Director S. Nagalakshmi, AP-Transco in-charge Joint MD I. Prudhvi Tej, Directors A.K.V. Bhaskar, J.V. Rao, and N.V. Ramana Murthy, and AP-Genco Directors M. Sujaya Kumar and P. Ashok Kumar Reddy were present.
