ELP’s Infrastructure and Energy Digest April 2019

This month’s infrastructure digest covers key decisions by the Madras High Court, Appellate Tribunal for Electricity (APTEL) in Maharashtra and the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC). The Madras High Court quashed land acquisition proceedings for the Chennai-Salem Highway citing a number of issues, APTEL ruled that there would be no additional surcharge for captive power projects and the CERC observed GST to be “Change in Law” yet again.

In this issue we have also covered two decisions of the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) – One is an order upholding the amendments for rehabilitation of stressed power assets and the second is a notification for an amendment in the regulation for sharing of the charges and losses of the  inter-state transmission system (ISTS).

For each section, we have attempted to provide a supporting commentary to help the reader derive a holistic understanding of the issue at hand. We hope you find the content insightful and look forward to your feedback.