CMEC to build 42.5-MW plant at Aminbazar

The China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC) will build a 42.5-megawatt (MW) power plant at Aminbazar in Dhaka.

The Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) will provide some 30 acres of land and around 3,000 tonnes of waste materials everyday to it to generate electricity.

The CMEC will purchase additional 20 acres of land and build a 12-kilometre-long 132 kilovolt (KV) transmission line to implement the power plant project.

The state-run Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) will purchase electricity from the power plant at a rate of US$ 0.2178 or Tk 18.29 per unit (one kilowatt hour) under 'no electricity no payment' system.

The CMEC and the BPDB inked a power purchase agreement (PPA), while an implementation agreement was inked with the Power Division at a function in a city hotel on Wednesday.

Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Tazul Islam, the chief guest of the programme, assured of extending all-out cooperation to implement the power plant project.

The supply of wastes to the power plant will not only provide electricity but will also help reduce greenhouse gas emission, said State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid.

Such power plants will be built in every district of the country (to utilise wastes), he added while speaking as the special guest.

DNCC Mayor Md Atiqul Islam, Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming, BPDB Chairman Md Belayet Hossain, and CMEC Chairman Fang Yan Shui also spoke on the occasion.

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