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Govt floats tender to build waste-based power plant

80-100 tonnes of waste will be needed to generate 1.0 MW of electricity

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State-run Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) floated tender last week to build a 1.0 megawatt (MW) capacity waste-based power plant at Keraniganj on build, own and operate basis.

The Bangladesh Power Development Board will purchase electricity from this power plant for 20 years.

Bid submission deadline for the project -- to be located near Baghoir substation of Rural Electrification Board -- is November 17.

The project sponsor will be selected through a competitive bidding process from their qualification statement and technical, commercial and financial proposal and tariff proposal submitted against the qualification document and request for proposal respectively.

The selected project sponsor will be required to arrange the necessary financing and to execute the key project documents for the project.

The BPDB seeks to qualify interested power project developers which have previous experience in implementing grid-connected wastes to power projects.

To generate 1.0 MW of electricity, some 80-100 tonnes of wastes will be required.

Currently, around 9,000 tonnes of solid wastes are being generated in Dhaka daily.

A similar tender was earlier floated to implement a 5.0 megawatt capacity waste to power project at Jalkuri of Narayanganj.

Officials said the Sustainable and Renewable Development Authority and the Power Division have been working over the past several years to initiate projects to utilise wastes for electricity.

But not a single project is yet to be awarded to any sponsor for implementation.

The government, however, has planned to implement several waste-based power plant projects at Keraniganj, Kushtia and Narayanganj during its tenure.

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