Bangladesh: No Gas for Eight Proposed Large & Medium Power Plants

The Power Division of Bangladesh is set to face a major setback in implementing at least eight large and medium power plant projects to generate a total of 1,700MW electricity as Petrobangla has informed the Power Development Board that it will not be possible to supply gas to the plants.

The country is likely to face an acute gas shortage by 2011 and with the current reserve of gas it will not be possible to supply gas to a number of proposed power plants, including the 450MW Meghnaghat-II independent power plant, Petrobangla chairman Sheikh Abdur Rashid informed the PDB in a letter last week.


The PDB earlier told Petrobangla that around 1,069 million cubic feet of gas per day would be needed to fuel 18 proposed government power plants with a total capacity of 3,825MW and five IPPs with 1,840MW capacity. The plants are schedule to come into operation by 2010