MP to get power from Reliance Power's Sasan power project

Madhya Pradesh will get cheap power at a "levellised" rate of 119 paise per unit for the next 25 years from Reliance Power Ltd's Sasan Ultra Mega Power Project (UMPP), an official release said here today.
A meeting in this regard was held in New Delhi recently at the initiative of the Madhya Pradesh Power Management Company where it was decided that the state would get cheap power at the levellised rate of 119 paise per unit for the next 25 years, the release said.
The MP Power Management Company's Managing Director (MD), Manu Shrivastava chaired the meeting in which representatives of other beneficiary states also took part.

He said that Sasan Power Project will benefit 14 power utilities of seven states.
However, for the first two initial years, Madhya Pradesh would get power at 70 paise per unit, which is the minimum rate of power at present.
The Sasan UMPP would generate 3960 MW of power under which six units of 660 MW each would be established, of which the first unit began generating power from August 16 this year.
Madhya Pradesh would get 1485 MW out of the total power generation from this UMPP, which is 37.5 per cent.
Besides representatives of seven states, Sasan Power Ltd officials and independent engineers discussed various techical issues related to the project during the meeting, the release said.