Two more thermal power plants in Karnataka

Karnataka is planning to set up two new thermal power plants to address the increasing demand for power in the coming years. The state minister for energy DK Shivakumar said the government was trying to identify land to set up the proposed power plants.

He said that the Union government had given a positive assurance to the state on providing coal linkage, if the latter submitted the proposal on the thermal power plants. He also said that in addition to allotting a coal block in Odisha for the proposed 1,320 MW thermal power project in Gulbarga, the Union government had advised the state to take up Phase II of the project.

However, there was a shortage of about 300 acres for Phase II of the project. The state would acquire the required land, he said.