The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, is set to inaugurate the operation of two newly-built rental power plants and also lay foundation for another one at three separate locations in Narayanganj today.
The two plants which go into operations and are set to be inaugurated by the prime minister are 100MW Shiddhirganj diesel-based rental power plant and the 100MW Madanganj furnace oil-based quick rental power plant.
She will lay foundation stone of the 410MW Haripur combined cycle power plant base-load power plant.
The government has set up the two rental power plants in private sector under a fast-track programme to resolve the nagging power crisis.
Desh Energy, a company owned by former FBCCI president Annisul Haque, has installed the Shiddhirganj 100MW plant under an agreement with the government.
As per agreement, the state-owned Power Development Board will purchase electricity from the Siddhirganj diesel-based plant at a rate of Tk 13.32 per unit (each kilowatt hour).
However, the plant was supposed to start commercial operation in November last year. But it failed to do so as per schedule. As a result, the PDB imposed a penalty of about Tk 32 crore on the company, said a Power Ministry official.
The 100MW furnace oil-based quick rental power plant has been set up by the Summit Group which comes into operation as per schedule. The Power Development Board will purchase electricity from the plant at a rate of Tk 9.75 per unit.
The third plant, the 412MW Haripur combined cycle power plant, for
which the prime minister will lay foundation, will be implemented in the public sector.
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