Chhattisgarh government retracts on commitment to buy 30% power from new plants
MUMBAI: The Chhattisgarh government has gone back on its commitment to buy 30% of power generated from new plants, which comes as a jolt to private power producers such as GMR Infrastructure, DB Power that have invested heavily in the state. The state government's move will jeopardize the financial viability of projects being set up at a total cost of about 42,000 crore to generate 7,000 mw power.
"We do not want to buy power from them anymore as we are a power-surplus state," a top official of Chhattisgarh State Power Trading Company (CSPTC) told ET.
"We had planned that we would buy the power and trade it for profit. But since we signed the agreements, coal prices have gone up, so trading margin would be under pressure. Therefore, we now want to get out of the agreements," said the official, who did not wish to be named. ECONOMIC TIMES .
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