Priority given to installing 3 big IPPs
Wednesday, 28 November 2007
M Azizur Rahman
The Power Division has given priority to installation of three big independent power plants (IPPs), each with 450 megawatt (MW) generation capacity, considering the availability of gas in their project sites, sources said.
The present government has decided to set up the IPPs by private entrepreneurs at separate locations - Bibiyana, Sirajganj and Meghnaghat-III - to ease the country's nagging electricity supply shortfall.
The Power Division initially planned to float international tenders for all the three IPPs at a time to expedite the pace of their installations.
But the country's existing poor gas production capacity and distribution system is forcing the power division to float international tender step-by-step, a senior Power Division official told the FE.
He said the power division has first floated international tender for installation of the Bibiyana IPP as gas is readily available there.
The Power Cell has already in hand the qualification statements of six companies.
The companies include Korea Electric Power Corporation of South Korea, AES Corporation of the United States, a consortium of the Summit Industrial Mercantile Corporation Limited of Bangladesh and the GE Energy of the United States, Chevron Corporation of the United States, a consortium of the Powertek Berhad of Malaysia and the Siemens Project Ventures GmbH of Germany and the YTL Power International Berhad of Malaysia.
The Power Cell under the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources (MPEMR) is set to complete scrutiny of the pre-qualification documents of the companies by next week.
The Power Cell is seeking proposals from the interested international parties for installation of a 450 MW Sirajganj IPP.
The closing date for submission of complete qualification statements from the interested companies will be on or before December 11, 2007.
After Sirajganj, the power cell will invite tender for Meghnaghat-III IPP.
The state-owned power entities will purchase electricity from all the three IPPs.
The Power Division has given priority to installation of three big independent power plants (IPPs), each with 450 megawatt (MW) generation capacity, considering the availability of gas in their project sites, sources said.
The present government has decided to set up the IPPs by private entrepreneurs at separate locations - Bibiyana, Sirajganj and Meghnaghat-III - to ease the country's nagging electricity supply shortfall.
The Power Division initially planned to float international tenders for all the three IPPs at a time to expedite the pace of their installations.
But the country's existing poor gas production capacity and distribution system is forcing the power division to float international tender step-by-step, a senior Power Division official told the FE.
He said the power division has first floated international tender for installation of the Bibiyana IPP as gas is readily available there.
The Power Cell has already in hand the qualification statements of six companies.
The companies include Korea Electric Power Corporation of South Korea, AES Corporation of the United States, a consortium of the Summit Industrial Mercantile Corporation Limited of Bangladesh and the GE Energy of the United States, Chevron Corporation of the United States, a consortium of the Powertek Berhad of Malaysia and the Siemens Project Ventures GmbH of Germany and the YTL Power International Berhad of Malaysia.
The Power Cell under the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources (MPEMR) is set to complete scrutiny of the pre-qualification documents of the companies by next week.
The Power Cell is seeking proposals from the interested international parties for installation of a 450 MW Sirajganj IPP.
The closing date for submission of complete qualification statements from the interested companies will be on or before December 11, 2007.
After Sirajganj, the power cell will invite tender for Meghnaghat-III IPP.
The state-owned power entities will purchase electricity from all the three IPPs.