Sheila visits Bawana power plant
17 May 2012 11:35 AM GMT
Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, on Wednesday, visited the Bawana power plant, even as power production remained severely affected. Reportedly, Reliance Industries Ltd is not heeding the Centre's direction to supply fuel to it.
The plant, which is considered one of the major gas-based power plant in the country, has been facing severe shortage of fuel for last eight months, which is also resulting in its periodic shut down.
Officials said Dikshit visited the plant to personally assess the situation.
The first module of plant, which has capacity to produce at least 750 MW of power, was made ready in April last year but it could start producing only 200 to 250 MW of power from November last year after Oil Ministry allocated 1.564 mmscmd (million metric standard cubic metres per day) gas to plant from ONGC. However, irregular supply of gas has been forcing periodic shut down of the plant.
After failing to get gas for the plant from RIL as per an earlier understanding, the Delhi government in February had sought intervention Mukherjee so that the plant could at least generate 750 MW of power so as to bridge the gap between demand and supply in summer months.
The EGoM in its meeting on 24 February, heeding to the Delhi government's request, had allocated 0.836 mmscmd to the plant from RIL's Andhra offshore KG-D6 fields but the company has expressed inability to supply the fuel due to drop in gas production.
Officials said Dikshit asked Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) to complete work on module-two of the plant by end of 2012 to take the production capacity to 1,500 MW. The work on module two, which was scheduled for completion in March this year, has slowed down following lack of gas supply to module one.
The Chief Minister said the power generated from the Bawana plant would be clean and cheaper than the power generated from coal based plants.
The plant, which is considered one of the major gas-based power plant in the country, has been facing severe shortage of fuel for last eight months, which is also resulting in its periodic shut down.
Officials said Dikshit visited the plant to personally assess the situation.
The first module of plant, which has capacity to produce at least 750 MW of power, was made ready in April last year but it could start producing only 200 to 250 MW of power from November last year after Oil Ministry allocated 1.564 mmscmd (million metric standard cubic metres per day) gas to plant from ONGC. However, irregular supply of gas has been forcing periodic shut down of the plant.
After failing to get gas for the plant from RIL as per an earlier understanding, the Delhi government in February had sought intervention Mukherjee so that the plant could at least generate 750 MW of power so as to bridge the gap between demand and supply in summer months.
The EGoM in its meeting on 24 February, heeding to the Delhi government's request, had allocated 0.836 mmscmd to the plant from RIL's Andhra offshore KG-D6 fields but the company has expressed inability to supply the fuel due to drop in gas production.
Officials said Dikshit asked Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) to complete work on module-two of the plant by end of 2012 to take the production capacity to 1,500 MW. The work on module two, which was scheduled for completion in March this year, has slowed down following lack of gas supply to module one.
The Chief Minister said the power generated from the Bawana plant would be clean and cheaper than the power generated from coal based plants.
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