B. S. A. SWAMY, J.

( 1 ) THE A. P. Electricity Regulatory commission by its order dated 8th february, 2002 in O. P. No. 1 of 1999 directed the H. T. Consumers with Captive Power plants (CPP) running in parallel with A. P. TRANSCO s Grid to pay grid support charges at 50% of the prevailing Demand charges for H. T. Consumers on the difference between the total capacity of CPP in KVA and the Contracted Maximum demand (CMD) in KVA with the licensee and all other sources of supply. In case of cpps exporting firm power to A. P. TRANSCO, the capacity, which is dedicated to such export, will also be additionally subtracted from the CPP capacity. Questioning the said order of the commission, the H. T. Consumers with cpps running in parallel with the a. P. TRANSCO Grid (hereinafter referred as cpps ), who are the appellants herein, filed these appeals before this Court under section 39 of the Electricity Reform Act, 1998 (hereinafter referred as reforms Act ). Sri K. Gopal Choudary addressing the arguments in these batch of appeals raised various grounds.

( 2 ) BEFORE considering the various issue that arise for consideration, we should keep in mind that in the beginning of 1990s the gover

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