RPower, Lanco snap supply to UPPCL on non-payment

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Deepa Jainani : Lucknow, Feb 16 2013, 02:50 IST

Power generating companies Reliance Power and Lanco Infratech have been forced to cut off supplies to Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation (UPPCL) with the latter not having cleared its dues. Reliance Power’s Rosa thermal power station and Lanco Infratech’s Anpara C thermal power station have stopped supplying power to UPPCL. As a result, the Rosa TPS in Shahjahanpur district has shut down one unit of 300 MW while Lanco Infratech’s Anpara C project in Sonebhadra district has shut down one unit of 600 MW.

“Both companies have shut down generation as we have not been able to make timely payments. While dues to Reliance amount to approximately R900 crore, Lanco’s dues are to the tune of approximately Rs 400 crore,” an official of UPPCL said on condition of anonymity.

The Northern Region Load Despatch Centre also reports that while one unit of Rosa TPS has been shut since February 13 due to “commercial dispute with UPSEB”, one unit of the Anpara C has been shut down since January 24 due to a “commercial dispute with UPPCL”.

Both Rosa and Lanco have a total installed capacity of 1,200 MW each. While the former has four units, each of 300 MW, Lanco has two coal-fired units each of 600 MW.

Reliance Power had run into a commercial dispute with the UPPCL in July last year after which it manually shut two of its four units. Then too, UPPCL had dues of R373 crore towards Rosa.

When contacted, UPPCL sources conceded they have not been able

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