Anisul Islam Noor, back from Patuakhali :
The construction work of China- Bangladesh joint venture Payra1320 MW coal fired power plant has started in full swing to implent the project by April 2019.
If the construction proceeds according to work schedule, the first 660 MW unit from the 1,320 MW capacity power plant will start power generation within next 16 months by April 2019, said Nasrul Hamid, State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources.
Other large plants, like the the 1,320 MW coal-fired plant in Bagerhat’s Rampal, was earlier scheduled to begin power generating by 2018, but the date has been pushed to June, 2021.
Currently Bangladesh’s power generation capacity is nearly 16,000 MW. The government plans to take it to 24,000 MW by 2021 and 40,000 MW by 2030.
Around 6000 professional including 1500 Chinese have been working round the clock to implement China- Bangladesh joint venture Payra1320 MW coal fired power plant by April 2019.
The plant would be the largest one in the country to begin electricity generation, he said.
During a visit to the project site on Friday reporter saw huge construction works in progress.
The Bangladesh-China Power Company Ltd (BCPCL) is a 50:50 joint venture between Bangladesh’s North-West Power Generation Company Limited (NWPGCL) and China National Machinery Import and Export Corporation (CMC).
“Nearly 31 percent of the project is complete. Ultra super critical technologies are being used to build the most modern power plant,” Hamid said.
During Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s 2014 China visit, a joint agreement was signed between Bangladesh’s North West Power Company and China’s National Machinery Import and Export Corporation. The two companies later formed the Bangladesh China Power Company Limited.
The joint venture is performing construction work on the project under the supervision of Chinese contractors NEPC and CECC Consortium.
The estimated cost of the project is US $1.6 billion, 80 per cent of which is expected to come as a loan from China’s Exim Bank. The rest would be invested by NWPGCL and CMC. The first phase will start generation by April 2019, while the second unit is scheduled for six months afterwards.
Nearly 1,000 acres of land have been allocated and fenced off for the project. The ground has been raised by seven metres using sand to protect the project from floods, tidal surges and other natural disasters.
State Minister Hamid took several members of the media for a tour of the construction site of the coal-based power plant in Patuakhali’s Dhankhali, on the banks of the Payra River.
NWPGCL managing director AM Khurshedul Alam told The New Nation that there would be two 660MW units in the project. The first unit of the power plant is expected to supply electricity by April 2019 and the second unit will start generation in October, he added.
The NWPGCL has been allotted land of 1000 acres near Payra port. Besides the 1,320MW plant, a 3,600MW LNG-based power plant, a 100MW solar plant, and a 50MW wind turbine plant will be set up here in the 100-acre land.
In addition to the port, nine power plants, with a combined capacity of 9,000 MW is to be constructed in Payra in the next five years, the state minister said. The project will make Payra ‘Bangladesh’s biggest electric hub’, he said.
“Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has undertaken this project in consideration of the people in southern Bangladesh. The completion of the Padma Bridge will increase the demand for power by 12,000 MW in the south-west region,” said Nasrul Hamid, State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources.
He said that the power plants project at Payra will produce a total of 900 megawatts of electricity and for this $12 billion would be invested.
The construction work of China- Bangladesh joint venture Payra1320 MW coal fired power plant has started in full swing to implent the project by April 2019.
If the construction proceeds according to work schedule, the first 660 MW unit from the 1,320 MW capacity power plant will start power generation within next 16 months by April 2019, said Nasrul Hamid, State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources.
Other large plants, like the the 1,320 MW coal-fired plant in Bagerhat’s Rampal, was earlier scheduled to begin power generating by 2018, but the date has been pushed to June, 2021.
Currently Bangladesh’s power generation capacity is nearly 16,000 MW. The government plans to take it to 24,000 MW by 2021 and 40,000 MW by 2030.
Around 6000 professional including 1500 Chinese have been working round the clock to implement China- Bangladesh joint venture Payra1320 MW coal fired power plant by April 2019.
The plant would be the largest one in the country to begin electricity generation, he said.
During a visit to the project site on Friday reporter saw huge construction works in progress.
The Bangladesh-China Power Company Ltd (BCPCL) is a 50:50 joint venture between Bangladesh’s North-West Power Generation Company Limited (NWPGCL) and China National Machinery Import and Export Corporation (CMC).
“Nearly 31 percent of the project is complete. Ultra super critical technologies are being used to build the most modern power plant,” Hamid said.
During Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s 2014 China visit, a joint agreement was signed between Bangladesh’s North West Power Company and China’s National Machinery Import and Export Corporation. The two companies later formed the Bangladesh China Power Company Limited.
The joint venture is performing construction work on the project under the supervision of Chinese contractors NEPC and CECC Consortium.
The estimated cost of the project is US $1.6 billion, 80 per cent of which is expected to come as a loan from China’s Exim Bank. The rest would be invested by NWPGCL and CMC. The first phase will start generation by April 2019, while the second unit is scheduled for six months afterwards.
Nearly 1,000 acres of land have been allocated and fenced off for the project. The ground has been raised by seven metres using sand to protect the project from floods, tidal surges and other natural disasters.
State Minister Hamid took several members of the media for a tour of the construction site of the coal-based power plant in Patuakhali’s Dhankhali, on the banks of the Payra River.
NWPGCL managing director AM Khurshedul Alam told The New Nation that there would be two 660MW units in the project. The first unit of the power plant is expected to supply electricity by April 2019 and the second unit will start generation in October, he added.
The NWPGCL has been allotted land of 1000 acres near Payra port. Besides the 1,320MW plant, a 3,600MW LNG-based power plant, a 100MW solar plant, and a 50MW wind turbine plant will be set up here in the 100-acre land.
In addition to the port, nine power plants, with a combined capacity of 9,000 MW is to be constructed in Payra in the next five years, the state minister said. The project will make Payra ‘Bangladesh’s biggest electric hub’, he said.
“Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has undertaken this project in consideration of the people in southern Bangladesh. The completion of the Padma Bridge will increase the demand for power by 12,000 MW in the south-west region,” said Nasrul Hamid, State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources.
He said that the power plants project at Payra will produce a total of 900 megawatts of electricity and for this $12 billion would be invested.
