The State Government has decided to set up a one-megawatt solar power plant near Chhatrapur, the district headquarters town of Ganjam district.
The plant would be come up on an area of 5.5 acres of land at an investment of Rs 13 crore, nodal officer of the project lenka Prasad said.
Sources said the State Government mulled to set up the project to sort out power scarcity in the area after the power infrastructure in the district were damaged hit by cyclone Phailin on October 12, 2013.
The nodal officer said the land for the project has already been identified.
He informed that the district administration will soon hand over the land to the State-owned Odisha Power Transmission Corporation limited (OPTCl), the implementing agency for the proposed plant.
The plant is part of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) funded Rs 1,000-crore plan to build disaster resilient power strengthening system in the cyclone-prone towns of Brahmapur, Chhatrapur and Gopalpur in Ganjam district on an experimental basis.