Dikhyaa Mohanty 
Odisha Hydro Power Corporation (OHPC) Chairman, Bishnupada Sethi has appreciated the sustained and coordination efforts of the Team OHPC to make all the seven units at Burla Power station fully functional with enhanced capacity.
Similarly, all the three units of Chiplima are also generating electric power smoothly as informed by a senior official of OHPC. It is a committed and relentless endeavour of OHPC to serve the state as well as to provide the cheapest green power to the people of the state.
According to the official reports, Hirakud Power House at Burla, a leading hydropower station of the state started generating electricity in December 1956. Units 5 and 6 of Hirakud Power Station, Burla after rendering continuous services for more than 50 years, recently undergo renovation, modernization and uprating (R, M&U) as per CEA guidelines.
The RM&U work of these units was taken up through Voith Hydro Private Ltd. (India) since October 2015 with a financial implication of 158.77 crores. On completion of RM&U work both Unit-5 and Unit- 6 have been put to commercial operation on November 2 2021 and January 1 2022 respectively.
The report further added that after the RM&U work, the capacity of both the units has been enhanced from 37.5 MW to 43.65 MW each resulting in the addition of 12.3 MW of power to the Odisha grid. The total hydroelectric power generating capacity of Burla Power House has been increased from 275.5 MW to n287.8 MW which is a cheap and green source of energy.
Further OHPC had already Renovated, Modernized and Uprated Unit 1,2,3 & 4 of Burla HEP in a phased manner and fed an additional capacity of 40 MW (12*2 + 8*2) into Odisha Grid. The successful RMU of Unit 5 & 6 will augment the financials of OHPC and this additional power generation capacity will contribute to the Odisha grid for peak load management.
