POWER IMPORT FROM INDIA - Test supply of 50MW electricity starts
Friday, September 27, 2013
POWER IMPORT FROM INDIA
Test supply of 50MW electricity starts
Star Online Report
The much-talked-about electricity import from India began on Friday, with the test supply of 50 megawatt power to the national grid.
The electricity was added to a high voltage sub-station of the Power Grid Company of Bangladesh (PGCB) in Bheramara, Kushtia, said a top PGCB official.
Initially, 50 to 175 MW of electricity will be imported and supplied to national grid everyday till October 5, Kazi Ishtiak Hasan, project director (in-charge) of Grid Interconnection between Bangladesh (Bheramara) and India (Baharampur), told journalists.
He said it will go up to 250 MW after October 5 and 500 MW at the end of November, reports our Kushtia correspondent.
Prime Ministers Energy Adviser Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury on Wednesday said India would start a test supply of 250 MW of power by Friday, with commercial supply beginning on October 5.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the two countries in 2010 regarding import of a total of 500 MW power from India.
Half of this power will be coming from the Indian central government electricity quota and the rest from its open market.
The total amount of electricity, which is to be imported under a 35-year contract, will greatly improve the countrys power crisis situation, which is now being tackled through costly but short-term rental power plants.
The tariff along with the transmission wheeling charge of the power imported will be between a little less than Tk 6 and Tk 6.35 per kilowatt-hour or unit.
The rate is cheaper than that of the rental power plants which ranges between Tk 7.5 and Tk 22 per unit, but higher than that of the large local gas-fired power plants that is between Tk 2.5 and Tk 4.8 per unit.
A 125-kilometre transmission line has been constructed between Baharampur of India and Bheramara in Bangladesh. Of this line, 40km fell inside Bangladesh. The PGCB official sources said Vidyut Vyapar Nigam (NVVN) power trading arm of Indian National Thermal Power Company (NTPC) will supply a leftover power from the countrys central pool.
Friday, September 27, 2013
POWER IMPORT FROM INDIA
Test supply of 50MW electricity starts
Star Online Report
The much-talked-about electricity import from India began on Friday, with the test supply of 50 megawatt power to the national grid.
The electricity was added to a high voltage sub-station of the Power Grid Company of Bangladesh (PGCB) in Bheramara, Kushtia, said a top PGCB official.
Initially, 50 to 175 MW of electricity will be imported and supplied to national grid everyday till October 5, Kazi Ishtiak Hasan, project director (in-charge) of Grid Interconnection between Bangladesh (Bheramara) and India (Baharampur), told journalists.
He said it will go up to 250 MW after October 5 and 500 MW at the end of November, reports our Kushtia correspondent.
Prime Ministers Energy Adviser Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury on Wednesday said India would start a test supply of 250 MW of power by Friday, with commercial supply beginning on October 5.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the two countries in 2010 regarding import of a total of 500 MW power from India.
Half of this power will be coming from the Indian central government electricity quota and the rest from its open market.
The total amount of electricity, which is to be imported under a 35-year contract, will greatly improve the countrys power crisis situation, which is now being tackled through costly but short-term rental power plants.
The tariff along with the transmission wheeling charge of the power imported will be between a little less than Tk 6 and Tk 6.35 per kilowatt-hour or unit.
The rate is cheaper than that of the rental power plants which ranges between Tk 7.5 and Tk 22 per unit, but higher than that of the large local gas-fired power plants that is between Tk 2.5 and Tk 4.8 per unit.
A 125-kilometre transmission line has been constructed between Baharampur of India and Bheramara in Bangladesh. Of this line, 40km fell inside Bangladesh. The PGCB official sources said Vidyut Vyapar Nigam (NVVN) power trading arm of Indian National Thermal Power Company (NTPC) will supply a leftover power from the countrys central pool.
