No land is being provided for the 400 KV electric transmission lines spanning the lengths of Kozhikode to Mysore. Land shortage occurred because of unrelenting to protests from the workers in the Kodagu coffee plantations in Karnataka.

The electric transmission lines are to be constructed across Nelamangala through Mysore to Waynad and eventually Kozhikode. The electric transmission lines were originally meant to be laid by the end of 2008. Because no land is being obtained from Nagarhole Forest area and Kodagu for the purpose, current operations are being put on hold and alternative plans are being made.

The plan for constructing the electric transmission lines comes at a capital expense of 400 crores, 1.5 crores being spent for every 1 km of power line. The power sub-station will cost an additional 70 crores. Bharat Bhushan, the Executive Director of the Southern Region of Power Grid says that the maximum capacity of the electric transmission line network will be 1000MV. Once the electric transmission lines are in place, it is expected to deliver electricity from North India and Andhra Pradesh to the state of Kerala.

Curretly, the focus is on shifting the work on the obstructed electric transmission lines to the land between Thrissur and Kozhikode. Once the rest of the electric transmission lines between Kudamkula Nuclear Facility through Idaman to Kochi are in place, it will be joined to the Kozhikode line.

The 150 km electric transmission lines required between Idaman and Kochi is estimated to cost around 225 crores. The overall project is expected to wind up by 2013.