It is reliably learnt that the Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority (SLSEA) had already issued the required energy permit for the construction of the power plant and the transmission line and that the power purchasing should be finalised by the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB).

 In 2022, the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) of India signed an agreement with the CEB to jointly set up a solar power plant in Sampur, Trincomalee.

The new agreement was signed a decade after the joint venture for a coal power plant project was signed and subsequently scrapped. Nevertheless, it has now been nearly a year since the agreements were signed between the NTPC and the CEB, but physical progress on the project is yet to materialise