The state Legislature was informed that the Gujarat government has paid Adani Power and Tata Power a total of Rs 16,900 crore for the purchase of power over the previous two years. Data presented by Energy Minister Kanubhai Desai during Question Hour shows that in 2021 and 2022, the state government paid Adani Power Mundra Ltd. Rs. 8,160 crore and Coastal Gujarat Power Ltd. Rs. 8,784 crore, respectively. Desai claimed that in response to a series of inquiries from Congress MLAs regarding the procurement of power from these corporate entities, the state
government paid Adani Power Rs 2,760 crore in 2021 for 5,589 million units and Rs 5,400 crore in 2022 for over 6,000 million units. The state government paid Tata Power Rs 2,751 crore in 2021 for 7,315 million units, and Rs 6,033 crore in 2022 for 10,446 million units.
Adani was charged Rs 2.83 per unit in January 2021, but by December 2022, that cost had increased to Rs 8.83. According to this, Tata Power charged the government Rs 4.92 per unit in 2022 as opposed to Rs 1.80 in January 2021. According to Desai, the price of imported coal increased "exponentially" after 2018, forcing several power providers to shut down their Gujarati facilities. This caused the cost of electricity per unit to increase.
As per Desai, the state government of Gujarat inked new supplemental agreements with Adani to pay according to the actual cost of fuel in order to guarantee that the people of Gujarat have uninterruptible power. Desai stated in the Assembly that the state government purchased electricity from these companies under a "special temporary arrangement" as authorised by the Center and the state government in 2021 when gas and imported coal costs again saw a considerable increase.
