Reliance Industries (RIL)
is planning to set up coal bed methane (CBM) power plant on a pilot project
basis in Shahdol district in Madhya Pradesh.
RIL has completed all
formalities for setting up the proposed power plant and will later start work
for setting up three units of 410 MW each for the 1,250 MW plant. The new plant
will initially generate 20 MW of electricity in a couple of months after
completion to assess viability of the unconventional fuel for the plant. The
company will source the methane gas from its own CBM fields in Madhya Pradesh.