For the ninth time, the Power Development Board has extended its deadline for request of proposals (RFP) to purchase 250 megawatt electricity from India’s open market for 15 years through tender.
The initial deadline was on February 26, but it has now been extended up to July 13 as there was poor response regarding the invitation of bids.
The decision was revealed in a notice, dated June 25, signed by PDB Secretary Md Zahurul Haque.
An existing electricity-importing three-year contract with Power Trading Corporation India Limited (PTC) is set to expire in July next year. The PTC now supplies 250MW electricity from the NTPC power plants in West Bengal as well as from India’s eastern regions.
The government invited tender from Indian companies so that the supply stays uninterrupted.
The PDB intends to select a potential gas- or coal-based power plant owner or supplier or trader in India for the supply of 250MW electricity for 15 years at 400kV level to Baharampur substation in India’s Murshidabad.
The sponsor will be selected through a competitive bidding process limited to Indian bidders after scrutinising their technical and commercial proposals and tariff proposals submitted against the request for proposal. The selected sponsor will be required to execute the power purchase agreement with the PDB.
The selected sponsor would have to supply power up to Baharampur substation at 400kV level (delivery point), which will be transferred to Bheramara grid substation in Kushtia by the Power Grid Corporation of India Limited and the Power Grid Company of Bangladesh Limited.
Since October 2013, NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam Ltd (NVVN) has been exporting a further 250MW of electricity to Bangladesh.
