Haripur power plant will add 412- megawatt (MW) electricity to the national grid in September as the experimental operation of this combined cycle plant has been going on successfully.
Mostafa Kamal, Managing Director of Electricity Generation Company of Bangladesh Limited, told the newsmen recently.
The 412MW Haripur combined-cycle power plant, the largest in public sector since the present government took office, requires 64 mmcfd (million cubic feet per day) of gas for commercial operation.
The new Haripur power plant has been installed on 8.5 acres of land beside the existing 100-megawatt power plant site.
Earlier, in February 2011, the government signed an agreement with a Japanese company to install the US$376 million power plant with financial support from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
The EGCB is executing the project with the assistance of Marubeni Corporation of Japan as the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contractor.
The project consists of one gas turbine (GT), one heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) with bypass stack, and one steam turbine (ST) including steam bypass system and associated steam/water cycle and plant auxiliaries.
The government has a master plan to generate 35,000 megawatts of electricity by 2030, but the implementation of most of the plans has been delayed due to poor performance of private sector partners. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina laid the foundation stone of this project on March 20, 2011.
The EPC contract was signed with Marubeni Corporation, Japan on February 9, 2011.
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