The project has received about 2.5 million metric standard cubic metre per day (mmscmd) of gas from GAIL for 15 days, and is currently generating 600 Mw against its total capacity of 1,967 Mw.
“Power generation has restarted following supply of gas till April 18.
"The project requires about 8.5 mmscmd gas for full operation and has been allocated 8.5 mmscmd of gas by the government of India.
"Of this, 7.6 mmscmd of gas was from the KG D-6 Basin and 0.9 from marginal gas fields of ONGC (through GAIL),” an RGPPL spokesman told Business Standard.
He, however, hoped the gas supply would further continue beyond April 18, as it would in turn help RGPPL to get revenue from Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company (MahaVitaran) in particular to service debt to lenders.
MahaVitaran, which draws 95 per cent of the power from the project, has started drawing power at Rs 4 per unit.
RGPPL has received much less gas during 2011-12 and 2012-13. So far, there has been a generation loss of 8,387 million units, while the loss in rupee terms will be about Rs 3,000 crore (Rs 30 billion) during 2012-13.
The project received an average 2.67 mmscmd of gas.
In 2011-12, about 3,095 MUs of generation was lost, as the company received an average 6.3
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