Bangladesh utilizes rental power plants

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the operation of two newly set up rental power plants.

"We need more power plants to raise the country's electricity production as foreign entrepreneurs have started arriving to invest in Bangladesh taking the advantage of congenial investment environment," she said.

The two plants that went into operation are 100 MW Shiddhirganj diesel-based quick rental power plant and 102 MW Madanganj furnace oil-based quick rental power plant. The two plants were set up in the private sector under a fast-track programme to resolve the power crisis.

With the opening of the plants, 202 MW more electricity has been added to the national grid. The present government during the last two years has been able to add nearly 14,00 MW power that is considered as one of the major successes of the Awami League government.

The Prime Minister also laid the foundation stone of 360 MW Haripur combined cycle base-load power plant, the biggest in the public sector so far. All three are located separately.

"We have undertaken projects to increase power production in public and private sectors and through public-private partnership. It is a great achievement of the government that we have already added nearly 14,00 MW electricity to the national grid during the last two years," the Prime Minster stated.

The Prime Minister said her government for the first time in the country's history has started power production in private sector.

"We came to power with many problems and gradually we have solved those," she said and expressed the hope that her government would be able to improve the country's power situation.