The commissioning of additional units at Talwandi Sabo Power Ltd (TSPL) and Balco power plant helped Vedanta post 8% rise in power sales in April-December period of FY17.
Vedanta sold 9,453 million units (MU) of commercial power by the end of December compared to 8,728 MU in the year-ago period. Power sales were from all Vedanta-owned units of TSPL, Balco, Jharsuguda, Malco and Hindustan Zinc. In the October-December quarter, total power sales of Vedanta was up 16%.
Power sales from TSPL increased with all three units being operational. In Q3 of FY17, the three units operated at an availability of