Bangladesh Celebrating 20,000 MW of power generation milestone

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Rajib Dhar , Mahmud Hossain Opu

• Published at 04:11 pm September 8th, 2018

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  Fireworks at Bashundhara R/A celebrating Bangladesh's 20,000MW electricity capacity | Mahmud Hossain Opu
  
  
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  Fireworks at Bashundhara R/A celebrating Bangladesh's 20,000MW electricity capacity | Mahmud Hossain Opu
  
  
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  Fireworks at Bashundhara R/A celebrating Bangladesh's 20,000MW electricity capacity | Mahmud Hossain Opu
  
  
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  Fireworks at Hatirjheel celebrating Bangladesh's 20,000MW electricity capacity | Rajib Dhar
  
  
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  Fireworks at Hatirjheel celebrating Bangladesh's 20,000MW electricity capacity | Rajib Dhar
  

Dhaka celebrated the success of producing 20,000MW power by lighting fireworks.

To celebrate the success of 20,000 megawatt power generation capacity, Dhaka city was lit up with fireworks on Friday night.

State Minister for Power Nasrul Hamid inaugurated the celebration at the Gulshan-end of Hatirjheel. The festival also took place in Dhaka’s Sadarghat and Bashundhara Residential Area.

Nasrul Hamid said: “When the incumbent government took office in 2009, power generation was only at 4,942MW, which has now been upgraded to 20,000MW. It is remarkable achievement within only 10 years.”

Earlier on Thursday, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the Power and Energy Week, a fair on electricity equipment and associated businesses with a theme of Anirban Agami (Indomitable Future) at Bashundhara Convention Centre.

Regarding the fair, the prime minister said: “Bangladesh's power generation capacity has now reached 20,000 MW with the total number of consumers exceeding 30 million from 18 million about 10 years ago.”

The Bangladesh government is planning to generate 24,000MW by 2021, 40,000MW by 2030, and 60,000MW electricity by 2041.

 

[zip]

Bangladesh making all right noises ...

 

[Bilal9]

Bheramara CCPP 360 MW Development Project

Bheramara CCPP (360 MW) Development Project

BHERAMARA CCPP 360 MW DEVELOPMENT PROJECT·THURSDAY, MAY 18, 2017
Progress till April/2017:

1. Reliability Run Test started on 30th April, 2017 to achieve the simple cycle COD.
2. Steam Turbine Supervisory Instrument installation work is in progress.
3. Both Bus-tie transformers (2X225 MVA) have been commissioned.
4. HRSG erection work is in progress 96% completed. Cooling tower erection work is in progress 97% completed.
5. Gas Turbine turning gear operation has been successfully completed. Gas Turbine and its auxiliaries interlock test are under progress. Gas Turbine Air intake cleaning and Control oil flushing under progress
6. Gas Turbine Generator Step-up Transformer has been commissioned.
7. Gas supply pipeline commissioning has been completed. Gas Booster Compressors erection work has been completed .Gas Booster Compressor pre-commissioning is in progress.
8. Steam Turbine (ST), Steam Turbine Generator (STG) and STG Step-up transformer have been placed on base. Auxiliaries erection work is in progress.
9. 132kV substation & HT switchgear panels have been commissioned & charged. Unit Auxiliary Transformer (UAT) and Station Auxiliary Transformer (SAT) have been commissioned and charged.
10. Bus-tie-transformers (2 nos.) have already been placed on base. Bus-tie transformers testing successfully completed.
11. DM plant has been commissioned.

NEPC 1320 MW Payra Thermal Power Plant Bangladesh (current status: being built)

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Bangladesh-China Power Company Limited (BCPCL) Signed a $1.56 Billion contract with a Chinese consortium at Radisson hotel for engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of a 1,320MW coal-fired power plant to be set up near the Payra Sea Port in Patuakhali.

The Chinese consortium won the contract as lone bidder. BCPCL is a 50-50 joint venture between the state-run North-West Power Generation Company of Bangladesh and China National Machinery Import & Export Corporation.

The EPC contractor is a consortium of China Energy Engineering Group Northeast No 1 Electric Power Construction Co Ltd or NEPC and China National Energy Engineering and Construction Co Ltd, China or CECC.
Dipak Kumar Dhali, company secretary of BCPCL, and Cai Ming, president of NEPC, and Chen Yuyu signed the contract on behalf of the respective parties.

The 660 MW first unit of the power plant at Payra is expected to supply electricity from June, 2019. Six months later, the second unit of the same capacity would start power supply. The EPC contractor will arrange $1.56 billion finance from the Chinese banking system as credit.

BCPCL is expecting to sell each unit of electricity from the plant at Tk 6.65 to the state-run Power Development Board, officials said. The company estimated the possible price of electricity considering the supply cost of coal up to the project site at $100 per tonne.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith has urged Chinese investors to invest more in Bangladesh, particularly in power sector. He said, Bangladesh is a good destination for investment. Prime minister’s energy adviser Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury, state minister for power, energy and mineral resources Nasrul Hamid and the ministry’s parliamentary standing committee chairman Md Tajul Islam, principal secretary to the prime minister’s office Md Abul Kalam Azad, power division secretary Monwar Islam, energy division secretary Nazimuddin Chowdhury, and Chinese ambassador at Dhaka Ma Mingqiang attended the contract signing ceremony among
others.

Nasrul Hamid said that at least $40 billion investment would be required in power sector by 2030. He said, We would offload shares of the successful power projects to raise funds.

 

[Sulman Badshah]

BD have excessive water than why BD govt is not going for Hydro energy ... It is cheap and clean source of energy

 

[UKBengali]

BD have excessive water than why BD govt is not going for Hydro energy ... It is cheap and clean source of energy

Terrain is too flat for hydro.

 

[Homo Sapiens]

Terrain is too flat for hydro.

Plus 1.Population density is high.Too much displacement.
2.We can not allow to submerge highly productive farmlands in hundreds of thousands of acres to generate electricity.When we have to choose between food and electricity production, we have to choose food.

 

[UKBengali]

This quadrupling of electricity generation in only 10 years must stand as probably AL's greatest achievement.

BD desperately needs better infrastructure in order to pull in billions of dollars in investments from around the world. We can now see the fruits with a mad dash into BD by companies from Russia, China, Japan, Europe and the US.