Reliance Power Limited (“RPower”) has requested Controller & Auditor General (“CAG”) to remove from its draft report the observations about utilization of excess coal from Sasan & Tilaiya projects.
It seems that, RPower’s request was considering the decision of Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on not to review the earlier decision allowing RPower to use excess coal from the Sasan UMPP.
On Tilaiya UMPP, the EGoM has decided that permission for use of surplus coal from Tilaiya UMPP would be governed by a new policy on excess coal usage. The policy would be formulated by the Coal Ministry.
In a letter to Comptroller & Auditor General, Vinod Rai, Reliance Power has requested the auditor to "consider dropping the audit para on undue benefits arising out of surplus coal from Sasan UMPP and Tilaiya UMPP".
Excess coal from Sasan UMPP is to be used for Chitrangi project.
As per the letter, Chitrangi project -- where the excess coal from Sasan is to be used -- is still awaiting certain important clearances and hence it may be premature to quantify any benefit due to sale of power using surplus coal.
Reliance Power said that as per reported EGoM decision, the permission for surplus coal usage from Tilaiya UMPP would be as per the new policy and "hence it may not be appropriate to quantify losses or make observations on Tilaiya UMPP".
Reliance Power has bagged three UMPPs -- Sasan (Madhya Pradesh), Tilaiya (Jharkhand) and Krishnapatnam (Andhra Pradesh). UMPPs are generally referred to as projects having generation capacity of 4,000 MW.
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