Friday, December 12, 2025 | 05:27 AM ISTहिंदी में पढें
Business Standard
Notification Icon
userprofile IconSearch

Regulator's remarks forced Andhra to relook at renewable tariffs: Officials

No customer tariff hike this year, discoms saddled with losses

solar, renewable
premium

Developers of wind and solar power have moved the Andhra Pradesh High Court, calling the step to review tariffs “illegal and unconstitutional”

Shreya Jai New Delhi
The Andhra Pradesh government, which has attracted controversy after cancelling agreements the previous regime entered into, has maintained that its action on power-purchase agreements (PPAs) is on account of adverse regulatory observations on them.

The government has launched a salvo against infrastructure projects approved by the previous government. 

Among the worst affected are renewable power projects, for which the state formed a committee to “review, negotiate and bring down” tariffs.

However, state government officials said they had taken a cue from a direction of the Andhra Pradesh State Electricity Regulatory Commission (APERC), which wrote to the power 

department, asking for a review of renewable