Naidu sets ₹4.60-a-unit power purchase target for Andhra Pradesh by year-end

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu connected Monday (April 27, 2026) directed officials to bring down the State’s powerfulness acquisition outgo to ₹4.60 a portion by the extremity of the year, and called for higher renewable vigor procreation and technology-driven reforms successful the powerfulness sector.

Reviewing the Energy Department astatine the Chief Minister’s campy office, Mr. Naidu took banal of summertime powerfulness supply, procurement plans for 2026-27, and the rollout of cardinal schemes specified arsenic PM Surya Ghar and PM Kusum. Officials said the State’s regular powerfulness request successful summertime was estimated astatine 275 to 285 cardinal units, and that full depletion this period had reached 6,397 cardinal units, astir 14% higher than the aforesaid play past twelvemonth due to the fact that of higher concern and seasonal demand.