R-Power not in priority list for next D6 gas flow

July 30, 2010: Anil Ambani-owned Reliance Power does not figure in the first six companies that will get gas on priority from Reliance Industries' KG-D6 when output from the block goes beyond the current capacity of 60 mmscmd, a power ministry official said.

The list, which is being finalised by the ministry, includes GSPC's 700 MW Pipavav power project, Gujarat State Energy Generation Ltd's 350 MW project at Hazira, Pragati Power Corporation's 1,000 MW Bawana power project, Lanco's 740 MW Kondapalli Phase III, GMR's Vemagiri expansion project and Uttarakhand's Kashipur project.

"The list will be submitted to the empowered group of ministers (EGoM). Priority is given to these plants as they will be commissioned between 2010 and 2012," an official said, requesting anonymity.

If the EGoM accepts the recommendations of the power ministry, it may delay Reliance Power's plans of setting up about 8,000 MW gas-based power projects in the country as the next allocation of gas will happen only in 2012.

Source: The Economic Times