3 months ago
2
Energy Minister Gottipati Ravi Kumar said the authorities targeted to make 160 Gigawatts of renewable powerfulness nether the Integrated Clean Energy Policy and absorption was laid connected semipermanent sustainability and extortion of user interests.
Speaking during the treatment connected Budget successful the Legislative Assembly connected Friday, Mr. Ravi Kumar said the reforms initiated successful the powerfulness assemblage by Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu helped the State successful making accelerated strides and recalled that the State was power-surplus successful 2014-19, erstwhile TDP was heading the government.
The powerfulness assemblage had travel nether terrible fiscal accent successful 2019-24, helium said, alleging that the energy tariffs were accrued 9 times during that period, resulting successful a ₹30,000 crore load connected the consumers. The contiguous authorities stabilised the debt-ridden powerfulness systems.
The Minister said Andhra Pradesh stood successful the forefront with an installed capableness of 21,457 Megawatts (MW), of which 37% was coming from renewable sources and noted that the AP Genco has precocious achieved a grounds procreation of 6,000 MW.
Due to improved procreation and fiscal discipline, the authorities reduced tariffs by 13 paise per portion done a existent down mechanism, which was the archetypal of its benignant successful the country. The powerfulness acquisition outgo was reduced from Rs.7.71 to Rs.6.35 per unit.
Andhra Pradesh has 378 other high-tension substations, 71,549 MVA transformer capableness and 33,000 circuit kilometres of transmission lines, Mr. Ravi Kumar said, adding that support was secured for a 2,000 MW BESS that would facilitate the proviso powerfulness astatine 1 of the lowest tariffs successful the country.
