Staff Reporter :
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the Matarbari 1200MW coal-based power plant work through video conference from Ganabhaban in city today (Sunday).
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is financing the project to construct the Bangladesh’s largest coal-based power plant at Matarbari.
According to the government’s power sector master plan, the Matarbari area will become a power hub for the country. In addition to the power plant, the power project is also constructing a Port in the area, which the government plans to convert to a deep-sea port.
The government hopes the project will help develop the region into a major economic centre.
A total of 1,414 acres of land have been allocated in Moheshkhali’s Matarbari and Dhalghata Unions for the project. Currently, 17 percent construction of the project is complete.
Md Abul Quasem, Managing Director of State-run Coal Power Generation
Company, said the project would be 14.7km long, 250km wide and 18.5km deep-sea channel.
A coal jetty, a storage yard and an ash pond will be constructed for the power plant, he added.
“Land is also being allocated for a land-based LNG terminal and a coal terminal,” State Minister for Power Nasrul Hamid said. “Coal can be distributed quickly to all the coal-based power plants across the country from this terminal.”
“The project will need between 8,000 and 10,000 tonnes of coal a day. Eventually we will import even more coal to provide supply to other power plants.”
The project area is some 40 nautical miles from the port in Chittagong.
The project hopes to make a significant contribution to Bangladesh’s goal of 40,000MW power production by 2040.
Approximately 15,000MW of this power is to be generated in the Moheshkhali area.
The LNG terminal for the area will start construction in April, 2018, Nasrul Hamid said.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the Matarbari 1200MW coal-based power plant work through video conference from Ganabhaban in city today (Sunday).
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is financing the project to construct the Bangladesh’s largest coal-based power plant at Matarbari.
According to the government’s power sector master plan, the Matarbari area will become a power hub for the country. In addition to the power plant, the power project is also constructing a Port in the area, which the government plans to convert to a deep-sea port.
The government hopes the project will help develop the region into a major economic centre.
A total of 1,414 acres of land have been allocated in Moheshkhali’s Matarbari and Dhalghata Unions for the project. Currently, 17 percent construction of the project is complete.
Md Abul Quasem, Managing Director of State-run Coal Power Generation
Company, said the project would be 14.7km long, 250km wide and 18.5km deep-sea channel.
A coal jetty, a storage yard and an ash pond will be constructed for the power plant, he added.
“Land is also being allocated for a land-based LNG terminal and a coal terminal,” State Minister for Power Nasrul Hamid said. “Coal can be distributed quickly to all the coal-based power plants across the country from this terminal.”
“The project will need between 8,000 and 10,000 tonnes of coal a day. Eventually we will import even more coal to provide supply to other power plants.”
The project area is some 40 nautical miles from the port in Chittagong.
The project hopes to make a significant contribution to Bangladesh’s goal of 40,000MW power production by 2040.
Approximately 15,000MW of this power is to be generated in the Moheshkhali area.
The LNG terminal for the area will start construction in April, 2018, Nasrul Hamid said.
