Orissa to sell power to other states after 2012.

The Orissa government on Thursday said that an additional 33,000 MW of power would be generated in the state by 2012 and about Rs 1.5 lakh crore would be invested for transmission systems for sale of surplus power to other states.Of the 33,000 MW, extra power targeted to be generated by 2012, around 17,000 MW will be produced by 13 independent power projects for which MoUs have been signed and the rest by public sector units like NTPC, energy minister Surya Narayan Patra said here.The Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd would invest nearly Rs 1.5 lakh crore for the transmission system for supplying surplus power to other states, he said.
Stating that Orissa would get about 11,000 MW from generating companies as per agreements signed, Patro said that the remaining 22,000 MW would be sold to buyers outside the state for six paise per unit of power.The state would require only 4,000 MW to meet its projected internal demand and the remaining 7,000 MW would be sold to other states facing power scarcity, he said.As a result, the minister said that the total volume of power to be evacuated from the state, including the electricity to be directly sold by generating companies, would be of the order of 29,000 MW.