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MSEB asked to prove confidentiality of Enron documents

Our Bureau

MUMBAI, July 2

THE Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) has given the State electricity board two weeks to prove the confidentiality of documents related to Enron's Dabhol power project, at the hearing of a petition filed by Prayas, a Pune-based non-gov ernment organisation.

The commission has also asked MSEB to clarify its stand on MERC making the documents public.

Prayas had filed a petition asking for the status and copies of various power purchase agreements signed by the board with independent power producers, including Dabhol Power Company.

MSEB, in turn, had said that DPC had claimed contractual confidentiality over several documents which could not be made public. MERC had given the board four weeks to submit the relevant documents.

The commission has now given the board an additional two weeks to submit the documents and to prove how making them public would affect public interest or the company's working.

The ERC is expected to give a ruling on the plea in two weeks' time.