As per the Gujarat Government, around one third of state's power generation capacity is lying idle due to lower demand as well as non availability of natural gas for the power projects..
The installed capacity of Gujarat is around 17,300 MW, with a combination of Coal and Gas based projects, out of which around 6500 MW is not producing power.
As said by the Energy & Petrochemical Minister,
“Gujarat’s 5000 Mw of gas-based capacity involving an investment of around Rs 20,000 crore is lying idle due to non-availability of gas,”
As per the Government Officials
- Around 1500 MW of coal-based power plants are shut for over last six months due to the lack of buyers. Peak electricity demand of the state is around 12,350 MW.
- Idle gas based capacity is causing loss to the tune of Rs. 1,000 Crore annually in the form of fixed cost.
- This has caused a loss of Rs. 600 Crore as a fixed cost as plants remain idle which works out to be Rs. 1200 Crore annually.
The state is also unable to sell power to the deficit area of Southern India due to lack of connectivity between western and southern transmission corridor.
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