Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 631 · Decided 27 August 2024
Bangalore Electricity Supply Company Limited v. Hirehalli Solar Power Project LLP & Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 631 · [2024] 8 S.C.R. 1024
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 7595/2021
- Decided
- 27 August 2024
- Bench
- PAMIDIGHANTAM SRI NARASIMHA, PANKAJ MITHAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Contract Act Section 32, 56; Electricity Act Section 125, 32
Headnote
Whether the extension of the Scheduled Commissioning Date (SCD) was occasioned under the force majeure clause of the Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), and consequently, whether the reduction in tariff payable to the respondents - State of Karnataka introduced a policy dated 26.08.2014 to identify and promote solar energy projects by land-owning farmers - These solar power plants of 1-3 MW capacity would generate and sell power to the State Electricity (Distribution) Supply Companies at the tariff
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