Aimed at making a habitable and clean city, a waste-to-energy power plant having capacity of 6 megawatt is going to be constructed at Jalkuri in Narayanganj district.
UD Green Energy (NCC Bangladesh) Company Limited, a joint venture Consortium will build the waste-based power plant on build-own-operate (BOO) basis.
The Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) will purchase electricity from the plant at US20.91 cents per kilowatt-hour (each unit) which is equivalent to Tk19.86 for a period of 20 years at ‘No Electricity No Payment basis’.
BPDB will sign Project Agreements (IA, PPA, WSA, LUA) with UD group China today (Thursday) for the implementation of the power plant.
Mohammad Humayun Kabir, Country Manager of UD Green Energy (NCC Bangladesh)
Company Limited told Bangladesh Post “Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) has already provided 10 acres of land for the power plant. We are expecting that the main construction will be started within three months and the power generation will start at the end of 2024.”
The Local Government Division (LGD) will supervise the projects with technical support from the Power Division. The plant will require 600 MT of waste to generate six MW electricity. Narayanganj City Corporation will provide waste, an official said.
The idea of the waste-to-energy plant is that the Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) will collect garbage from its area and supply it to the power plant for power generation.
The Cabinet Committee on Public Purchase on September 16, 2020 approved a proposal of a private bidder to set up a waste-based plant on build-own-operate (BOO) basis in Narayanganj. After that the government had issued LOI (Letter of Intent) on October 11 in the same year.
According to the officials, electricity will be generated following a combustion technology that will turn the waste into electricity through incinerating or burning the waste.
The project will help the government add more electricity from a renewable source and keep the city clean by managing municipal solid waste effectively. It will contribute to enabling cleaner and healthier living conditions by removing human health risks from uncontrolled waste on the streets and providing increased energy supply to essential public services in underserved communities that are prone to climate-induced displacement, a project official said.
Some Asian countries like Thailand, South Korea, and China are generating power from waste using the combustion technology. However, the US, Canada and the majority of European countries are now using gasification technology, which is comparatively environment friendly.
