The government is facing trouble over the building of coal-based power plants, Prime Minister’s Principal Secretary Abul Kalam Azad has said.
He said such plants require huge investments and take a long time to build and become operational. They also require deep technical expertise to run.
“We are thinking of setting up large solar power plants to meet the power demand,” he said while speaking at a discussion yesterday.
The government has taken up a number of projects for the construction of mega power plants but their outcomes have not been satisfactory.
The government plans to set up a series of coal-fired power projects to generate 20,000 MW of electricity by 2030.
It promised to set up a total of eight coal-fired power plants under a public-private initiative.
Of them, local private firm Orion group was supposed to build three 1,088 MW coal-based power plants, another two 1,450 MW power plants under the government initiative and three further 7,960 MW plants as joint-ventures.
