Odisha taps into hydel power, restores 70% power in 3 hours

July 31, 2012 18:40

As many states continued to struggle in darkness due to unprecedented grid collapse today, Odisha managed to restore electricity in 70 per cent area within three hours.

Here's why.

According to Odisha Energy Minister Atanu S Nayak: "We have been able to provide power to consumers in less then 3 hours of the eastern grid collapse by drawing electricity from different hydro-power generation stations, captive power plants and state's own thermal units. "We immediately supplied power to Railways on priority basis as passengers are standard at many stations," he said adding the state government had also supplied power to thermal electricity generation centres of NTPC at Kanhia and Talcher for it to 'start up'.

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