With the reduction in availability of natural gas from Krishna Godavari (KG) – D6 basin, Ministry of Power or the Central Electricity Authority issued an advisory not to plan any gas based power generation plants till 2015-16 based on domestic gas owing to non availability of domestic gas.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Power Jyotiraditya M Scindia in Lok Sabha.
Government of Karnataka requested for allocation of gas for two new gas based power projects at Bidadi Combined Cycle Power Project (CCPP) 1,400 mw (2×700) and Tadadi CCPP 2,100 mw (3×700) proposed for 12th Plan.
The application was received by the union power ministry on October 29, 2010, the minister said.
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