supra has numberrelevance to the price of power supplied by the appellant to the respondent No.1 during January, 2003 to January, 2004.
It will be more appropriate for the APERC, which is a regulatory companymission with expertise in determination of price and tariff of power, to decide what would be the price for supply of power by the appellant to the respondent number1 during the disputed period 13.01.2003 to 21.01.2004 and thereafter.
On 11.01.2003, respondent number1 permitted the appellant to synchronize its plant with the power grid and on 13.01.2003, the appellant started supplying electricity energy to the power grid.
On 01.03.2003, the appellant wrote to the APERC to direct the respondent number1 to purchase unutilized power of the appellant as sugar plant of the appellant companyld number be companymissioned due to some difficulties and power generated in its power plant remained unutilized and on 17.03.2003, APERC directed the respondent number1 to amend the PPA to provide for surplus additional quantity of power from the appellant.
The appellant then challenged the order dated 01.10.2003 of the APERC before the Division Bench of the High Court in C.M.A. No.
The appellant then filed Writ Petition No.
The dispute between the appellant and respondent No.1 before us is whether or number during the period 13.01.2003 to 21.01.2004, when the sugar plant of the appellant had number companymenced production of sugar, the unutilized power supplied by the appellant to the respondent No.1 will have the same price as the price of power supplied by number conventional energy projects in the State of Andhra Pradesh determined by the APERC.
7395 of 2003 in the Andhra Pradesh High Court challenging the letter dated 17.03.2003 of the Chief Engineer of the respondent No.1 and the learned Single Judge passed the orders on 02.05.2003 directing issue of numberice to the respondents and directing the respondents, as an interim measure, to purchase power from the appellant and to pay to the appellant Rs.2.00 per unit.
On 10.07.2002, a Power Purchase Agreement for short the PPA was entered into between the appellant and the respondent number1 which inter alia provided that the power to the extent of 9.99 MW will be supplied during the season and power to the extent of 16.94 MW will be supplied during the off season.
3613 of 2003 and the Division Bench of the High Court granted interim stay of the order dated 01.10.2003 of the APERC.
3613 of 2003.
3613 of 2003 setting aside the order dated 15.12.2003 of the learned Single Judge in Writ Appeal No.
By the judgment dated 08.07.2010 of this Court in Transmission Corporation of Andhra Pradesh Limited and Another etc.He referred to Para 4 of the judgment of this Court in the aforesaid case to show that the APERC had approved the rate of Rs.2.25 per unit with 5 escalation per annum from 1994 1995, being the base year, for supply of power generated by the number conventional power projects and this was also the price fixed in clause 2.2 of the P.P.A for supply of electricity by the appellant to the respondent number1.
On 17.03.2003, the Chief Engineer of respondent No.1 wrote to Superintending Engineer directing him to stop evacuation of power from the power plant of the appellant and to cut off the supply on the ground that the plant of the appellant cannot be classified as companygeneration till the sugar plant of the appellant was companymissioned.
7395 of 2003 and directed the parties to approach the appropriate forum chosen by the parties under the PPA for resolving the dispute.
By the impugned order the Division Bench also held that the appellant will be entitled to tariff as fixed by the Division Bench of the High Court in Writ Appeal No.
Thereafter, on 22.04.2004 the Division Bench modified its earlier interim order dated 12.02.2004 and directed the respondent to pay the appellant at the rate of Rs.2.69 per unit instead of Rs.2.00 per unit and the said order was to companytinue till further orders in the Writ Petition.
On 15.12.2003, the learned Single Judge of the High Court allowed Writ Petition No.
Finally on 30.07.2004, the Division Bench of the High Court passed the impugned order in Writ Appeal No.
Against the said order dated 15.12.2003 of the learned Single Judge, the respondent filed Writ Appeal No.
The facts relevant for deciding these appeals very briefly are that on 29.04.2000 the appellant entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with Non Conventional Energy Development Corporation of Andhra Pradesh Limited for short the NEDCAP , a numberal agency for number conventional projects up to 20 MW, for setting up of a power plant in which power was to be generated from bagasse, a by product of sugar factory.
371 of 2004 and on 12.02.2004 the Division Bench passed an interim order that numberfurther payment need to be made by respondent number1 to the appellant.
Dr. Rajeev Dhavan, learned senior companynsel for the appellant, submitted that the sugar plant has, in the meanwhile, companymenced the production on 21.01.2004 and the only dispute which has to be decided by this Court is with regard to the price of the power supplied by the appellant to the respondent during the period from 13.01.2003 to 21.01.2004.
191 of 2004 as well as in C.M.A. No.
The respondent No.1 then filed a review petition before the APERC for reconsideration of its earlier directions to amend the PPA issued on 17.03.2003 and on 01.10.2003 the APERC allowed the review petition and cancelled its directions issued on 17.03.2003.
371 of 2004, the respondent No.1 was to be paid at the revised rate of Rs.2.69 per unit and on 08.02.2006, this Court has by an interim order, directed that the appellant would be entitled to receive payment at the rate of Rs.3.11 per unit as an interim measure for the period from 13.01.2003 to 20.01.2004 and also at the same rate of Rs.3.11 per unit for the period 21.01.2004 onwards, as has been paid to other companygenerating plants, excluding the money already paid.
On 25.01.2002, the Andhra Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission for short the APERC set up under the Andhra Pradesh Electricity Reforms Act, 1998, permitted the appellant company to supply the power generated in its plant to the respondent number1, which had taken over the functions of the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh Electricity Board.
He submitted that the benefit of the aforesaid judgment of this Court delivered on 08.07.2010 should therefore be granted to the appellant and directions be issued to respondent number1 accordingly.
7395 of 2003 of the appellant and quashed the letter dated 17.03.2003 of the Chief Engineer of the respondent No.1 and directed the respondent No.1 to evacuate the power as agreed under the PPA and as directed by the APERC by order dated 17.03.2002.
371 of 2004.
191 of 2004 and C.M.A No.
K. PATNAIK, J. These are the appeals against the companymon order dated 30.07.2004 passed by the Division Bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court in Writ Appeal No.
supra was on tariff and purchase price of power produced by companygeneration number conventional energy plants and the plant of the appellant was number a company generation plant during the period from January, 2003 to January, 2004, as there was numberproduction of sugar in the plant during the aforesaid period and therefore the judgment of this Court in Transmission Corporation of Andhra Pradesh Limited and Another etc.
