Following is an excerpt from a report in Business Standard.

The Orissa cabinet today approved a proposal of the Orissa Power Generation Corporation (OPGC), a joint venture between the Orissa government and the AES, to adopt super critical technology with a configuration of 2X260 Mw and sharing of power for the proposed expansion of unit 3 and unit 4 of the Ib Thermal Power Station of OPGC.

The cabinet chaired by the chief minister Naveen Patnaik also allowed OPGC a time gap of 6 months between the commissioning of the 3rd and 4th units.

However, in case of delay in commissioning of the 4th unit beyond 6 months, OPGC would have to give 450 Mw from the 3rd unit against the approved 420 Mw.