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CCEA likely to approve amendments in Mega Power Policy

29 Mar 2017 Evaluate

In order to help stuck projects worth 31 GW thermal capacity avail the benefits of ‘mega status’, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) is expected to give its approval to amend the Mega Power Policy, which will help to avoid potential stressed assets worth Rs. 1.5 lakh crore. The amendment will also help to bring down the power tariff for making electricity more affordable for domestic as well as industrial and commercial consumers.

The changes will also give developers more time to sign power purchase agreements and ease terms related to release of their bank guarantee. Out of these stuck projects which have not imported or not inked power purchase agreement would get extra time to seek various benefits after approval to the amendments in the policy. While, all those plant which have already imported the equipment would get additional 60 months for inking power purchase agreements with discoms/states and an additional time period of 120 months would be provided to those projects for which equipment has not been imported, under the policy for seeking various benefits.

This relaxation in time frame would help all of these 31GW capacities to unlock total various benefit of over Rs 10,000 crore under the policy, as they would get incentives ranging from Rs 30-40 lakh per MW. Thermal power plants of over 1,000 MW and hydel projects of over 500 MW currently enjoy mega power project status that gives them exemption from excise duty besides lower customs duty and deemed export benefits. These 31GW include around 3,300 MW of gas based thermal power generation capacities and the remaining projects are coal based.

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