The government yesterday approved a tariff discount of $2.5 million for two gas-based rental power plants and is also considering to increase the plants’ capacity by 30MW.
The Power Division yesterday submitted a proposal for increasing the capacity of the plants of Aggreko International, the tenures of which were recently extended for four years, to the cabinet committee on public purchase.
A meeting of the committee yesterday approved the tariff discount, Additional Secretary Nurul Karim told reporters.
As per the Power Ministry proposal, the capacity of the 80MW plant at Ashuganj and 70MW plant at Brahmanbaria will be increased by 15MW each for four years under the main contract.
The Aggreko International will give the government the discount amount as traffic cost.
The extension of rental and quick rental power projects would increase power subsidy to Tk7,000 crore in the next fiscal year from the present Tk6,000 crore.
The government in February extended the tenures of two rental power projects having a capacity to generate 128.5MW of electricity by five years each.
