Anisul Islam Noor :
The government sign deals to generate power or import from India and Bhutan though distribution capacity is poor or unsmart, the experts said.
According to data of Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) actual power consumption was 5451 MW in the day hours on December 21 while it was raised 7324MW in evening peak hours.
Recently Power Division celebrate “Alok Utsob” on the occasion of power generation capacity reached 15,000 MW.
“If we observed the chart of power distribution and generation, a big gave is seen there, what does mean by it? It means there is wrong planning,” talking with The New Nation on Thursday Professor Shamsul Alam said.
The government signed so many deals with different local and foreign farms arguing increase the power generation and celebrating 15000 MW electricity generation capacity but actual generation is half of the figure, he said.
Many industries in Dhaka and Chittagong can not go to production due to lack of electricity connection, he said.
He asked the government why huge of generation capacity is sit idle ignoring the demand of electricity both in the household and industrial sector, Shamsul Alam said.
Professor Anu Muhammad said, the government is interested to sign deals with three Indian firms to build an offshore LNG terminal and two power plants and import 1,600MW of electricity
from the neighbouring country.
He kept question that the government has to prove first the distribution level in line of power generation capacity before signing further deal.
Rising dependency on private sector for power generation professor Anu Muhammad also said that awarding power projects to private sector for pleasuring a quarter of group will bring disaster in the country’s power sector in future.
However, the government is determined to signed deals soon with three Indian company for building an LNG (liquefied natural gas) terminal and a 750-MW capacity re-gasified LNG-based combined cycle power plant (CCPP) by Reliance Power Ltd, importing 1,600MW electricity to be generated from the Adani-owned coal-fired power plant in India’s Jharkhand and setting up a 225-MW gas-fired power plant by Shapoorji Pallonji Infrastructure Capital Company Limited, a subsidiary of Shapoorji Pallonji Group, in Bhola involving several billion US dollars.
The Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources (MPEMR) and state-run Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) are now busy preparing relevant documents before putting them on the table for signing during the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit which is slated for February, a senior MPEMR official
The documents include the draft of power purchase agreement (PPA) and implementation agreement (IA) and land lease agreement (LLA), he said.
Awarding of the power plants to foreign firms through inking deals in any foreign country would be the first of its kind for Bangladesh.
“We are now working to finalise the draft deals,” BPDB Chairman Khaled Mahmood.
All these projects are expected to be awarded under Speedy Supply of Power and Energy (Special Provisions) Act 2010, which provides for awarding contracts avoiding tenders and indemnifies officials concerned against prosecution for making decisions.
Indian firms are going to ink the deals without offering any bid bond against the projects, officials said.
The BPDB, the country’s lone buyer of electricity from producers, would purchase electricity from the power plants to be owned by the Indian firms, sources said.
The BPDB had inked separate Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) with Indian Reliance Power Ltd and Adani Power Ltd during the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Dhaka in June 2015.
The government sign deals to generate power or import from India and Bhutan though distribution capacity is poor or unsmart, the experts said.
According to data of Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) actual power consumption was 5451 MW in the day hours on December 21 while it was raised 7324MW in evening peak hours.
Recently Power Division celebrate “Alok Utsob” on the occasion of power generation capacity reached 15,000 MW.
“If we observed the chart of power distribution and generation, a big gave is seen there, what does mean by it? It means there is wrong planning,” talking with The New Nation on Thursday Professor Shamsul Alam said.
The government signed so many deals with different local and foreign farms arguing increase the power generation and celebrating 15000 MW electricity generation capacity but actual generation is half of the figure, he said.
Many industries in Dhaka and Chittagong can not go to production due to lack of electricity connection, he said.
He asked the government why huge of generation capacity is sit idle ignoring the demand of electricity both in the household and industrial sector, Shamsul Alam said.
Professor Anu Muhammad said, the government is interested to sign deals with three Indian firms to build an offshore LNG terminal and two power plants and import 1,600MW of electricity
from the neighbouring country.
He kept question that the government has to prove first the distribution level in line of power generation capacity before signing further deal.
Rising dependency on private sector for power generation professor Anu Muhammad also said that awarding power projects to private sector for pleasuring a quarter of group will bring disaster in the country’s power sector in future.
However, the government is determined to signed deals soon with three Indian company for building an LNG (liquefied natural gas) terminal and a 750-MW capacity re-gasified LNG-based combined cycle power plant (CCPP) by Reliance Power Ltd, importing 1,600MW electricity to be generated from the Adani-owned coal-fired power plant in India’s Jharkhand and setting up a 225-MW gas-fired power plant by Shapoorji Pallonji Infrastructure Capital Company Limited, a subsidiary of Shapoorji Pallonji Group, in Bhola involving several billion US dollars.
The Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources (MPEMR) and state-run Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) are now busy preparing relevant documents before putting them on the table for signing during the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit which is slated for February, a senior MPEMR official
The documents include the draft of power purchase agreement (PPA) and implementation agreement (IA) and land lease agreement (LLA), he said.
Awarding of the power plants to foreign firms through inking deals in any foreign country would be the first of its kind for Bangladesh.
“We are now working to finalise the draft deals,” BPDB Chairman Khaled Mahmood.
All these projects are expected to be awarded under Speedy Supply of Power and Energy (Special Provisions) Act 2010, which provides for awarding contracts avoiding tenders and indemnifies officials concerned against prosecution for making decisions.
Indian firms are going to ink the deals without offering any bid bond against the projects, officials said.
The BPDB, the country’s lone buyer of electricity from producers, would purchase electricity from the power plants to be owned by the Indian firms, sources said.
The BPDB had inked separate Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) with Indian Reliance Power Ltd and Adani Power Ltd during the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Dhaka in June 2015.
