UNB, Dhaka :
Two renewable energy projects – one 100MW solar power plant and another 100 MW wind power plant – are going to be set up in Sonagazi upazila of Feni district.
State-owned Electricity Generation Company of Bangladesh (EGCB) will implement the two projects. EGCB official said they have already received administrative approval from the Power Division while the Planning Commission also approved a proposal for the acquisition of 1000 acres of land in Sonagazi’s island areas.
“Finally, we’ve got Ecnec’s approval, the highest body for approving development projectx, on August 9 this year,” a top EGCB official told UNB. Recently, a high-power committee, headed by the chairman of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Development Authority (SREDA), selected the lands for the two projects.
SREDA member and Power Division’s joint secretary Siddique Zobair said his organisation has been providing all the necessary policy supports for implementing the two renewable energy projects.
Initially, he said, it was Mirsarai upazila in Chittagong that was under consideration for the two projects, but the scarcity of suitable lands prompted the authorities to select Sonagazi. EGCB officials said Ecnec has, meanwhile, approved Tk 102.92 crore for land acquisition. Now, the PGCB will move for inviting tenders for the projects.
They said, the two projects will be implemented through export credit agency (ECA) financing where the bidders will mobilise required funds for the projects. The projects will be implemented under the government’s Renewable Energy Policy of 2008, which has a target to have 10 percent of the country’s overall power from renewable energy by 2021. But renewable
energy projects, with below 200 MW of capacity, have so far been implemented while the country’s total power generation now has hit about 9000 MW.
However, the government has taken a number of solar power plant projects, envisaging power generation of 300 MW, but the projects are being implemented in a slow pace, said power industry insiders.
Two renewable energy projects – one 100MW solar power plant and another 100 MW wind power plant – are going to be set up in Sonagazi upazila of Feni district.
State-owned Electricity Generation Company of Bangladesh (EGCB) will implement the two projects. EGCB official said they have already received administrative approval from the Power Division while the Planning Commission also approved a proposal for the acquisition of 1000 acres of land in Sonagazi’s island areas.
“Finally, we’ve got Ecnec’s approval, the highest body for approving development projectx, on August 9 this year,” a top EGCB official told UNB. Recently, a high-power committee, headed by the chairman of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Development Authority (SREDA), selected the lands for the two projects.
SREDA member and Power Division’s joint secretary Siddique Zobair said his organisation has been providing all the necessary policy supports for implementing the two renewable energy projects.
Initially, he said, it was Mirsarai upazila in Chittagong that was under consideration for the two projects, but the scarcity of suitable lands prompted the authorities to select Sonagazi. EGCB officials said Ecnec has, meanwhile, approved Tk 102.92 crore for land acquisition. Now, the PGCB will move for inviting tenders for the projects.
They said, the two projects will be implemented through export credit agency (ECA) financing where the bidders will mobilise required funds for the projects. The projects will be implemented under the government’s Renewable Energy Policy of 2008, which has a target to have 10 percent of the country’s overall power from renewable energy by 2021. But renewable
energy projects, with below 200 MW of capacity, have so far been implemented while the country’s total power generation now has hit about 9000 MW.
However, the government has taken a number of solar power plant projects, envisaging power generation of 300 MW, but the projects are being implemented in a slow pace, said power industry insiders.
