Maharashtra would get 700 mw of power from the Dabhol Power Company (now called Ratnagiri Gas and Power Private Ltd) by May 2006 and 500 mw from Paras and Parli centres, said Deputy Chief Minister R R Patil.

By the year-end, the state would get 2000 MW and within two and a half years the state would be in a position to sell electricity to other states, he said in Mumbai on Tuesday.

Patil said that during 1994, Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar was keen on the Dabhol project. But the Congress had not supported him and hence the state plunged into power crisis.