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The annulment of tenders for semipermanent powerfulness procurement nether the Centre’s Scheme for Harnessing and Allocating Koyala Transparently successful India (SHAKTI) argumentation has prompted the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) to research a medium-term powerfulness acquisition woody with the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC).
The KSEB has sought the Kerala State Electricity Regulatory Commission’s (KSERC) support for the procurement of 80 megawatts (MW) from the DVC for a five-year period. The powerfulness inferior plans to procure 25 MW from the DVC’s Koderma Thermal Power Station (KTPS) and 55 MW from Mejia Thermal Power Station (MTPS).
In January this year, the DVC, which functions nether the Union Power Ministry, had offered the KSEB a full allocation of 80 MW connected a semipermanent basis. The DVC has offered rates which are “significantly much advantageous than erstwhile tender outcomes,” the KSEB said successful a petition which volition beryllium heard by the committee connected March 26.
Apart from an anticipated spike successful powerfulness demand, the KSEB has cited a fig of reasons for its determination to spell for the DVC proposal. The “severe situation pursuing the non-availability” of 465 MW nether a contentious Design, Build, Finance, Own and Operate (DBFOO) contracts and consequent inability to necktie up powerfulness astatine tenable rates has been cited arsenic a reason.
Subsequently, the KSEB had decided to procure 500 MW of round-the-clock powerfulness for 15 years and 25 years respectively nether the B(iii) and B(iv) components of the SHAKTI coal-linkage scheme. However, successful some cases, the per-unit rates were connected the higher broadside erstwhile the petition for connection (RfP) bids were opened. Consequently, the KSEB absorption had decided to annul the tenders.
The existent connection to procure powerfulness from the DVC is profoundly rooted successful the ‘Resource Adequacy Plan (Generation) for Kerala (2025-26 to 2035-36)’ prepared by the Central Electricity Authority (CEA), according to the KSEB. The estimated mean tariff for the KTPS is ₹5.4 per portion and ₹5.5 for the MTPS. The KSEB is already availing 100 MW from the MTPS. The CEA study besides identifies a thermal powerfulness shortfall of 112 MW to 400 MW successful the coming years, the KSEB noted.
