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New Delhi, Jan 23 (PTI) The Appellate Tribunal for Electricity will hear Monday a joint plea of Delhi’s three power distribution companies to let them stop buying costlier power from the NTPC’s Dadri I power plant and pave its way to buy cheaper power for its consumers.
The three Delhi Discoms -- BRPL, BYPL and TPDDL-- have approached the APTEL challenging a Central Electricity Regulatory Commission’s order denying them the permission to exit from the power purchasing agreement with the NTPC’s Dadri I power plant, said Discoms sources.
They said the three Discoms had earlier moved the Supreme Court against the CERC’s decision but the apex court had asked them to move the APTEL to get the relief.
The Discoms officials explained that as part of their efforts to optimise their power purchase costs, the three Discoms had decided to stop purchasing power from the NTPC’s Dadri I power which 25 years of its commercial operation and due to which it has been generating power at costlier rates and selling it at that rate to its customers.
The Discoms had stopped scheduling power from Dadri I plant from November 2020 after it completed its 25 years of operation and had sought to exit from it.
But the NTPC had denied them the exit, the sources said.