B. S. A. SWAMY, J.

( 1 ) PETITIONERS in Writ petition Nos. 4770 and 4771 of 2002 are the appellants in CMA Nos. 1351 and 1356 of 2001. These petitioners along with the appellants in other CMAs have established power generation units in private sector from time to time, both conventional and non-conventional, pursuant to the policy of the central Government to encourage greater investments by private enterprises in power sector formulated in the year 1991 and in allowing private participation in generation, distribution, renovation and modernization of the power projects in its quest for increasing availability of electricity since the per capital electricity consumption in the country happened to be the lowest and to bridge the gap between demand and supply and entered into agreements with the then A. P. State Electricity Board the predecessor-in-interest to the 2nd respondent a. P. TRANSCO with the approval of the State Government for transmission of the energy generated by them to their consumers and were paying wheeling charges in kind as fixed by the Government to different categories of developers of energy. These power generation units can be categorized broadly into eight ca

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