Business Desk :
An agreement has been signed to develop the country’s second waste-based power plant in Narayanganj.
Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB), the Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC), and Chinese firm U&D signed the deal on Thursday.
The power plant will generate 6 MW of electricity from the garbage of Narayanganj city and adjoining areas.
Welcoming the deal, LGRD and Cooperatives Minister M Tajul Islam said more such projects will be set up in different city corporation areas.
Earlier, a similar agreement was signed in December last year between the BPDB, Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and the Chinese firm CMEC to develop the country’s first-ever waste-based power plant in Dhaka with an electricity generation capacity 42.5 MW from the garbage in the capital.
As per the agreement, Narayanganj City Corporation will supply 600 tonnes of garbage to the U&D plant to generate 6 MW of electricity, which the BPDB will purchase at a rate of US20.19 Cents (about Tk 20 per unit) for a period of over 25 years.
