Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will formally inaugurate a 225MW combined cycle power plant in Sirajganj today.
The power plant is implemented by state-owned North-West Power Generation Company Ltd (NWPGL).
“The dual fuel- (gas and diesel) based power plant, financed by the Asian Development Bank, started its commercial generation 10 months ago. Now the PM will formally inaugurate the plant,” AM Khurshed Alam, Managing Director of NWPGL, told the Dhaka Tribune.
She will lay the foundation stone of another 225MW combined cycle power plant in the same location, Khurshed said.
The Power Development Board is buying electricity from the plant at Tk2.14 per unit, he added.
NWPGL plans to build a power hub in Sirajganj. As part of the hub, the company will build another 225MW plant by March 2017. The other two plants, to operate at 220MW and 414MW, will be operational by June 2018.
The company will also upgrade the 150MW Khulna plant to 225MW, to be completed by November 2015. The combined cycle 360MW dual-fuel Bheramara power plant will begin generating by December 2016, and the 1,350MW coal-based Paira power plant will start production by 2019. To feed the plant, coal will be imported from Indonesia. The Paira port authority will install a terminal to unload coal. Land has been acquired for the terminal.